Robert Halmi
[2] There, he photographed black-shrouded women mourners, a picture later selected by Edward Steichen for MoMA's world-touring The Family of Man exhibition.Halmi went to the United States in 1950, arriving in New York, and after establishing himself as a commercial photographer he approached LIFE and other magazines, including Sports Illustrated, and was commissioned for adventure and travel stories, often participating in the events he would document,[3] including an African road rally for a story "The Wildest Auto Ride on Earth", for True magazine, he photographed Sam Snead and the Shah of Iran.From his experience covering a LIFE story on a 1962 visit with his 9-year-old stepson Kevin Gorman to a Maasai tribe in Kenya, he conceived his first feature film, Visit to a Chief's Son, released in 1974 and starring Richard Mulligan, Johnny Sekka, John Philip Hogdon and Jesse Kinaru.In 1979 with his son Robert, Halmi started a production company, RHI Entertainment, (later Sonar Entertainment), and adapted literary classics for television including The Odyssey (1997), Alice in Wonderland (1999), Moby Dick (1997) and Gulliver's Travels (1996)[4] and continued as a producer of television movies and miniseries.Robert Halmi, Sr.'s other survivors included another son, Bill; his stepson, Kevin Gorman; a step-daughter, Kim Sampson; and two sisters, Julie Costello and Jorgie Lask.