Harry Keller(1913-1987)
- Director
- Editor
- Producer
Entering the film business as an editor in 1936, Harry Keller began
directing in the late 1940s, and soon was at Republic, specializing in
westerns. When that studio folded he went to Universal, directing
westerns again, interspersed with some dramas, comedies and war
pictures. In the late 1960s he stopped directing films and started
producing them, although he did keep his hand in directing TV shows.
Keller gained some degree of fame as the director called in by
Universal to reshoot scenes from Orson Welles' masterpiece Touch of Evil (1958), and by
most accounts (including Welles') matched Welles' style quite
well--although, as one Universal executive said, "Harry Keller's not a
bad director, but he's Harry Keller, and Orson Welles is Orson Welles .
. . ".
