Harry Keller(1913-1987)

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 La Soif du mal (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 . . . ".