Hal Bell(1925-1991)
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
American dancer, choreographer, and director. After a brief career
dancing in MGM musicals, Bell worked as an assistant to choreographers
such as Gene Nelson and LeRoy Prinz on major musicals of the Fifties and
Sixties. During Judy Garland's famed comeback at the Palace, Bell served as
her stage manager, and subsequently associate produced Esther Williams's
American and European tours. In the late 1950s, he began an association
with Jerry Lewis, as stage manager, technical director, assistant director,
and production manager on a number of Lewis's films and tv programs. He
died following a stroke at 65, in 1991.
