Hal Ashby
FilmmakerKnown for:
Harold and Maude (1971), Being There (1979)
Education:
Self-taught filmmaker through apprenticeship as film editor
Hal Ashby edited In the Heat of the Night (1967) before directing a run of films between 1971 and 1979 - Harold and Maude (1971), The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Coming Home (1978), Being There (1979) - that constitutes one of the most sustained creative periods in 1970s American cinema. His films share a sympathy for outsiders and an aversion to moral simplicity that placed them at the radical edge of Hollywood filmmaking during the decade. He died of cancer in 1988 and has been significantly reassessed since.
Hal Ashby's Gear List(1)
ARRI
Connection Source
ImdbWebsite
Connection note
Used Arriflex 35 IIC and Panavision PSR for Harold and Maude (1971); Panavision system for Being There (1979)
Product description
The Arriflex 35 BL (Blimped Lightweight), introduced in 1972, was the first self-blimped 35mm motion picture camera quiet enough for sync-sound shooting without an external housing. Its mirror-reflex viewfinder and rugged construction made it a standard tool in European and independent filmmaking from the 1970s onward.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
