Biography
Carroll Ballard (born 14 October 1937) is an American film director and cinematographer. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a classmate of Francis Ford Coppola. Early in his career he made documentaries for the United States Information Agency, including Harvest (1967), which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Ballard worked as second-unit director on Star Wars (1977), handling many desert scenes. His first feature as director was The Black Stallion (1979), offered to him by Coppola. He went on to direct Never Cry Wolf (1983), Wind (1992), Fly Away Home (1996) and Duma (2005). Several of his films centre on human relationships with animals and the natural world.
