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After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, with direct responsibility in well over 150 of those. He designed the Oscar itself, winning it 11 of the 37 times he was nominated for it. Some of his designs influenced American interiors, and it has been argued that he was the most important art director in the history of American cinema.- Production Designer
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Rick Carter was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a production designer and art director, known for Avatar (2009), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Jurassic Park (1993).- Art Department
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- Animation Department
Mentor Huebner's wife, Louise, managed his business affairs, both in Fine Arts and Film Making, and wrote and negotiated most of his contracts. She is a writer and has authored 14 books. Louise is known world-wide as the Official Witch of Los Angeles County. In 1968, almost one year to the day, when Buzz Aldrin went to the Moon, she was invited by the Los Angeles Parks and Recreation to cast a spell at the Hollywood Bowl. The Spell she cast was to increase sexual vitality for the entire County of 78 cities. For her 'services' she was given a scroll which included the County Seal. It was awarded to her by the Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, then Ernest Debs. It designated her as 'Official Witch'. Later when the County wished to rescind the title, Louise threatened to desex all the elected officials pointing out the legality of the document. She won. Photographs of Mentor and Louise and their children along with a copy of her scroll can be viewed in one of her books: Never Strike A Happy Medium. [louisehuebner@aol.com 20021003]- Production Designer
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Dennis Gassner was born on 22 October 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a production designer, known for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), 1917 (2019) and Road to Perdition (2002).- Art Director
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Art director and painter, trained in stage design in Düsseldorf and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Hermann Warm was an important figure in the German expressionist cinema of the 1920's and early 30's. He was instrumental in changing traditional concepts of using painted backdrops in favour of three-dimensional constructions. He was also among the first to petition producers to give the art director copies of film scripts, in order for pre-production sketches to be made.
Warm began in films in 1912 with Deutsche Vitaskop, after working as a theatrical designer. Following a stint designing stage sets for the German Army in Vilnius, he joined Decla-Bioskop as full art director in 1919, often working in close collaboration with Walter Röhrig. Some of Warm's best work was for the directors Fritz Lang, (designing the famous sets for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)), Henrik Galeen (The Student of Prague (1926)) and Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr (1932)). By the late 1930's, Warm found regular film work as a free-lancer more difficult to come by, having repeatedly failed to obtain a long-term contract from Ufa. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1941. Though he returned to Germany six years later, he never again achieved the same level of artistic success.- Cinematographer
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Carl Hoffmann was born on 9 June 1885 in Neisse, Silesia, Germany [now Nysa, Opolskie, Poland]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Die Leute mit dem Sonnenstich (1936), Looping the Loop (1928) and Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel (1928). He died on 5 August 1947 in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Production Designer
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- Visual Effects
Rick Heinrichs is known for Sleepy Hollow (1999), Glass Onion (2022) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).- Production Designer
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Stuart Craig was born on 14 April 1942 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. He is a production designer and art director, known for The English Patient (1996), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). He has been married to Patricia Stangroom since 1965. They have two children.- Art Director
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Richard Day's film career began in 1918 when director Erich von Stroheim hired him as a set decorator. His work so impressed von Stroheim that the director kept Day as a set decorator, then an art director, and costume designer on many of his productions. Day left von Stroheim and struck out on his own in the '30s. He soon gained a reputation as one of the most imaginative art directors in the business, and he worked often for the major studios on their top-drawer productions. Day won seven Oscars for art direction and set design.BIThe Black Swan
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Edgar G. Ulmer was born on 17 September 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for The Naked Dawn (1955), The Black Cat (1934) and Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943). He was married to Shirley Ulmer and Joan Warner. He died on 30 September 1972 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Director
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After graduating from the University of Illinois, Hal Pereira served his apprenticeship as a theatrical designer in his home town Chicago, between 1933 and 1940. In 1942, he moved to Hollywood and signed with Paramount as a unit art director under the tutelage of department head Hans Dreier. He took over Dreier's job of supervising art director upon the latter's retirement in 1950. Pereira had an innate sense of naturalism and knew how to best suit and enrich the emotive or thematic needs of a subject. He was particularly adept at designing realistic urban landscapes, often using understated sets, and employing props and lighting devices which conveyed moral or economic values. His best early work was on Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944), for which he provided a sombre and claustrophobic atmosphere, alternating his use of light and shadow, both for dramatic effect, and as juxtaposition between good and evil. He used similarly confining interiors, both for the dust bowl of the anguished mining community of Ace in the Hole (1951), and for Alfred Hitchcock's set-bound thriller Rear Window (1954).
Pereira was immensely versatile, tackling films of every conceivable genre, from The War of the Worlds (1953), with it's death-ray dispensing alien flying machines, to creating the expansive outdoor feeling of Shane (1953); from the seedy, random disorder of the police station in Detective Story (1951) , to the rich, glowing sunbaked locations of Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and the happy-go-lucky Bohemian interiors of The Odd Couple (1968). In 1959, Pereira worked in tandem with A. Earl Hedrick as art director on Bonanza (1959). Nominated for 23 Academy Awards, he only won one, for The Rose Tattoo (1955). He retired in 1968, to work as a design consultant in the architectural firm of his famous brother, William L. Pereira.- Production Designer
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Luca Tranchino is a Production Designer and Art Director, known for his work on Hugo (2011), The Aviator (2004), Gangs of New York (2002). His long collaboration with legendary Oscar-winning Production Designer, Dante Ferretti, started in 1998 with Titus, continuing with Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011), Seventh Son (2015). He has designed sets for movies such as The Legend of Hercules (2014), Unfinished Business (2015), The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017). In 2012 he has won The ADG Excellence in Production Design Award for a Period Feature Film, for his contribution to Hugo (2011). In 2016 he has designed sets for the television drama Prison Break (Fox TV), and in 2021 for the historical television series Domina (Sky Atlantic) .- Art Department
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Tony Reading was born in 1940 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. Tony is an art director and production designer, known for The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Saint (1997) and Lifeforce (1985). Tony has been married to Sally Shewring since 1978. Tony was previously married to Susan Terry.- Art Department
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Norman Dorme was born in 1927 in London, England, UK. He is an art director, known for Superman (1978), Flash Gordon (1980) and Krull (1983).- Art Department
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Peter Dorme was born in 1962 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK. He is an art director, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Casino Royale (2006) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).- Art Department
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Italo Tomassi was born on 25 February 1910 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an art director, known for Amarcord (1973), Roma (1972) and Fellini Satyricon (1969). He was married to Liliana Joly. He died on 27 September 1990 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Art Director
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Walter H. Tyler was born on 28 March 1909 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for Sabrina (1954), Roman Holiday (1953) and The Ten Commandments (1956). He died on 3 November 1990 in Orange County, California, USA.- Art Director
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Fred Carter was born in 1932 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is an art director and set decorator, known for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Air America (1990) and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). He has been married to Irene Carter since 1965.- Art Director
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Veniero Colasanti was born on 21 July 1910 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a costume designer and production designer, known for El Cid (1961), Carthage in Flames (1960) and Brivido (1941). He died on 26 May 1999 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Production Designer
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Giorgio Giovannini was born on 26 May 1925 in Frascati, Lazio, Italy. He was a production designer and art director, known for The Name of the Rose (1986), La Dolce Vita (1960) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). He died on 31 March 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.Amarcord- Set Decorator
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Sam Comer was born on 13 July 1893 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Sam was a set decorator, known for Vertigo (1958), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and To Catch a Thief (1955). Sam died on 27 December 1974 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA.- Art Director
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Ernest Archer was born on 26 July 1910 in the UK. He was an art director and production designer, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Zulu (1964) and Moonraker (1979). He died on 27 July 1990.- Art Director
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Arthur Lawson was born in 1908 in Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Red Shoes (1948), Peeping Tom (1960) and Black Narcissus (1947). He died in 1970 in London, England, UK.- Art Director
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Luke Freeborn is a production designer and world builder with over 24 years industry experience. Prior to Sonic 3, Mr. Freeborn had designed Knuckles and Sonic 2 for Paramount, Murder Mystery 2 Hawaii portion for Netflix, The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie: Sponge out of Water, Take with Minnie Driver and Jeremy Renner, and served as Supervising Art Director for James Cameron's Avatar 2 & 3. Mr. Freeborn is also know for his art direction work on Oscar® nominated Inception and Passengers, as well as ADG recognized movies, Logan, Star Trek, Thor, Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Angels and Demons, and numerous others.- Art Department
Dorothea Holt was born on 18 May 1910 in Hollywood, California, USA. She is known for Omar Khayyam (1957), Road to Bali (1952) and Ten Little Niggers (1949). She was married to Harry Redmond Jr.. She died on 27 February 2009 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.Gone With the Wind- Production Designer
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Anna Asp was born on 16 May 1946 in Söderhamn, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. She is a production designer and art director, known for Fanny and Alexander (1982), Evil (2003) and Pelle the Conqueror (1987).- Art Director
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- Art Department
Hilyard M. Brown was born on 16 February 1910 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for Cleopatra (1963), The Night of the Hunter (1955) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). He died on 12 October 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Director
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Jack Martin Smith graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California. He joined MGM as a sketch artist and designer in 1938 (among others, creating drawings for the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz (1939)) and the following year was promoted to full art director. He worked for the studio until 1954, chiefly associated with creating the lavish, mythical backgrounds for the big budget musicals produced by the Arthur Freed unit, foremost among them Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Ziegfeld Follies (1945) and Easter Parade (1948).
In 1954, Smith joined 20th Century Fox, collaborating with Lyle R. Wheeler on creating the sumptuous look of An Affair to Remember (1957) and Peyton Place (1957). He eventually succeeded Wheeler as supervising art director, putting his stamp on some of the most spectacular blockbusters of the era, including Cleopatra (1963) and Hello, Dolly! (1969). From the early 60's, he also worked extensively in television. In addition to his work in Hollywood, Smith was an accomplished painter of seascapes and river scenes.- Director
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The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and then director. The Proletkult's director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, became a big influence on Eisenstein, introducing him to the concept of biomechanics, or conditioned spontaneity. Eisenstein furthered Meyerhold's theory with his own "montage of attractions"--a sequence of pictures whose total emotion effect is greater than the sum of its parts. He later theorized that this style of editing worked in a similar fashion to Marx's dialectic. Though Eisenstein wanted to make films for the common man, his intense use of symbolism and metaphor in what he called "intellectual montage" sometimes lost his audience. Though he made only seven films in his career, he and his theoretical writings demonstrated how film could move beyond its nineteenth-century predecessor--Victorian theatre-- to create abstract concepts with concrete images.- Production Designer
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Influential German art director, the son of a brewer. Herlth studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Between 1916 and 1918, he designed his first theatrical sets during wartime army service in Vilnius, collaborating with the set designer Hermann Warm. From 1922, he worked in tandem with Walter Röhrig on some of the most seminal motion pictures made by Ufa. He put into being at once elaborate and massive baroque sets for stage and screen, as well as the distorted, expressionist visions of directors like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Herlth also excelled at creating the simpler sets required for the more intimate and naturalistic Kammerspielfilms. His best work in both categories is well exemplified by The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1923), Congress Dances (1931) and Amphitryon (1935). The partnership with Roehrig ended in 1936 and Herlth began to work on more commercial properties. After the war, he alternated routine entertainments (Das doppelte Lottchen (1950), Im Weissen Rössl (1952) with the occasional masterpiece (Film Without a Name (1948)). For his work on the two-part adaptation of The Buddenbrooks (1959) he was awarded the German Film Award (Bundesfilmpreis) in 1959.- Art Director
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Walter Röhrig was born on 13 April 1897 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Hans im Glück (1936) and Looping the Loop (1928). He died in 1945 in Caputh, Brandenburg, Germany.- Production Designer
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Otto Hunte qualified with a degree from the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg. He first came to notice as a stage designer in Berlin around the turn of the century. When he entered films in 1919 as a set decorator and costume designer, he joined a highly skilled team (usually working in tandem with top craftsmen like Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht), frequently for the director Fritz Lang. As production designer/art director, Hunte was especially renowned for the darkly sinister, gothic sets he created for Lang's mammoth "Nibelungen" saga. In perfect contrast to these were his stylised futuristic designs for the underground Metropolis (1927); the monumental and richly ornate architecture for the sacrificial temple of Eschnapur in the two-part epic "Das Indische Grabmal" (and, similarly, for the city of Ophir in the fifth instalment of "Die Herrin der Welt").
With the advent of sound, Hunte's work adapted to more contemporary requirements, such as the seedy night club setting for The Blue Angel (1930). An atomic reactor designed for the film Gold (1934) was apparently so convincing, that the Allies confiscated all prints of the film after the war. During the mid-1930's, Hunte sadly blotted his copy book by working on several notorious Nazi propaganda films. Ironically, his penultimate contribution was the anti-Nazi drama Murderers Among Us (1946). This, the first so-called 'Trümmer-film', was an immensely effective evocation of devastated post-war Germany.- Production Designer
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Erich Kettelhut was born on 1 November 1893 in Berlin, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Metropolis (1927), Die Herrin der Welt, 7. Teil - Die Wohltäterin der Menschheit (1920) and Die Herrin der Welt 4. Teil - König Macombe (1919). He died on 13 March 1979 in Hamburg, West Germany.- Art Director
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Julian Ashby is known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Sleepy Hollow (1999).- Art Department
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John Hoesli was born on 8 March 1919. He was an art director and set decorator, known for Lifeforce (1985), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and The African Queen (1951). He was married to Pamela Carlton and Janet Dawson. He died on 22 March 1997 in Bracknell, Berkshire, England, UK.- Production Designer
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Pierre du Boisberranger is known for Marie Antoinette (2006), 8 Women (2002) and The City of Lost Children (1995).- Art Director
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James Basevi saw military service with the 2nd Canadian Division during the First World War and fought at the Battle of Amiens as a machine gunner. He attained the rank of major and was decorated and mentioned in dispatches . After being demobilized, he first returned to Canada, then settled in the United States. In 1924, he joined the fledgling MGM company, first to design sets, then as a special effects director, often in collaboration with Cedric Gibbons and A. Arnold Gillespie. Basevi was under contract at MGM from 1925 to 1929 and, again, in the mid-30's, his earthquake scenes from San Francisco (1936) earning him a well-deserved reputation as one of the top craftsmen in the field. He was at United Artists from 1936 to 1940, doing more sterling special effects work (with Alexander Golitzen and Richard Day) on the storm sequences of The Hurricane (1937). For this, he built a 600-foot set of a tropical island to be drowned by thousands of carefully manipulated gallons of water. Reviewer Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times was so impressed that he referred to it as the 'Basevi Hurricane' blasting an audience "from the orchestra pit to the first mezzanine"(November 10,1937).
Basevi received his first full credit as art director for Raffles (1939). In 1941, he moved to 20th Century Fox, first as supervising art director, becoming head of the art department by 1945. His crowning achievement was winning the Academy Award for art direction for The Song of Bernadette (1943) (sharing the honours with William S. Darling. On loan to David O. Selznick, he also famously worked with Salvador Dalí on Hitchcock's thriller Spellbound (1945), transferring Dali's paintings for the dream sequence onto film and creating an 'artistically compelling' atmosphere. He also excelled at conveying strikingly convincing images of the Old West, as in My Darling Clementine (1946) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
After departing Fox in 1947, Basevi did freelance work, in addition to brief spells with RKO (1948-50) and Warner Brothers (1953-54).- Art Director
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Hans Peters was born on 17 May 1894 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Knights of the Round Table (1953) and Lust for Life (1956). He was married to Maria Thiele. He died on 12 June 1980 in California, USA.- Set Decorator
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Paul S. Fox was born on 30 September 1898 in Corunna, Michigan, USA. He was a set decorator, known for The King and I (1956), Cleopatra (1963) and The Robe (1953). He died in May 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Production Designer
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Karl Vollbrecht was born in 1886. He was a production designer and art director, known for Metropolis (1927), M (1931) and Woman in the Moon (1929). He died on 10 January 1973 in Schladen, Germany.production designer- Production Designer
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Dante Ferretti was born on 26 February 1943 in Macerata, Marche, Italy. He is a production designer and set decorator, known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Shutter Island (2010) and The Age of Innocence (1993).production designer- Costume Designer
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Danilo Donati was born on 6 April 1926 in Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a costume designer and production designer, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Flash Gordon (1980). He died on 1 December 2001 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Art Director
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Walter M. Scott was born on 7 November 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a set decorator, known for The King and I (1956), Cleopatra (1963) and The Sound of Music (1965). He died on 2 February 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.set decorator- Set Decorator
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Paul Raymond Moyer was born in Santa Barbara, California, son of John Linnington Moyer and Eva Bither. He married Catherine Foote in 1917 and had two daughters, Paula Barbara Moyer and Nancy Carol Moyer. He worked for many years at Paramount Studios, but in his later years worked with John Wayne at Batjac Productions. He won three Oscars for his work on Sunset Blvd., Samson and Delilah, and Cleopatra, and had several nominations for other films he worked on. He wrote a manuscript about working in show business which was recently donated to the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He had 14 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren born before his death. Several of his grandchildren and great grandchildren are also in the business. Ray lived a most colorful life, and died peacefully at the Motion Picture Home in 1986.set decorator- Set Decorator
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Hal Gausman was born on 13 November 1917 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a set decorator and actor, known for The Untouchables (1987), Mary Poppins (1964) and The Blues Brothers (1980). He died on 14 June 2003 in California, USA.set decorator- Set Decorator
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Edward G. Boyle left his family in a small Canadian town to take his chances in Hollywood in the Great Depression. His talent and determination led to many successes. He worked on such films as Gone with the Wind, and the Apartment, for which he won the Academy Award. A favourite of Billy Wilder, he also worked on Some Like it Hot, and many other classic films.set decorator- Producer
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Marilyn Vance is a successful Costume Designer in the entertainment industry, having costume designed over 60 Feature Films, 5 Television films and a Mini-Series. Vance has an innate talent for communicating her broad creative vision to collaborating with directors, production designers and cinematographers all the while serving the integrity of the film moving the story along....from Contemporary to Period to Fantasy, all with the same eye for style and design to enrich the film and characters. Vance set the trends of the time with her character designed portrayals in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, Pretty in Pink and Pretty Woman.Vance was the first female to costume design for the action genre, designing 48 hours, Die Hard 1 & 2, The Untouchables, Predator 1 & 2, Time Cop, Road House and The Last Boyscout. Being devoted to character and story she achieves an authenticity no matter the genre: from the gripping period dramas Sommersby and The Untouchables to the fantasy world of Mystery Men, Streets Of Fire and The Rocketeer to the adventure films Romancing The Stone and The Getaway to name a few. All designed with vision to create consistently believable characters.Marilyn Vance's career has garnered her an Academy Award nomination for The Untouchables, BAFTA nominations for The Untouchables and Pretty Woman. In addition she was nominated for the Saturn Award for Mystery Men and won the Saturn Award for The Rocketeer. She was nominated for a Costume Designers Guild award for the mini series Bonnie and Clyde and was on the cover of the Costume Designers Emmy issue magazine with a two page spread of Bonnie and Clyde being it was a first time two night event for THE History Channel, A&E and Lifetime simultaneously.
In 2009 The Costume Designers Guild honored Vance with the Career Achievement Award at their yearly event sponsored by Lacoste and Swarovski. A collage reel of some of the films she costume designed was edited for the event. In 2012 Vance was asked by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to participate in an exhibition to be mounted and travel for four years around the world exhibiting Characters through Costume in Film from 1912 to 2012. The films chosen to represent Pop Culture and considered Iconic for character are Die Hard, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, The Untouchables and Pretty Woman. In 2015 an exhibit mounted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences along with The Victoria & Albert Museum, London and curated by Deborah Nadoolman Landis an Academy Award nominee for costume design launched the exhibit held in the soon to be Academy Museum for a limited time. The Hollywood Costume exhibit celebrated and examined costume design as an essential tool of cinematic storytelling. The Pretty Woman Red Gown and the very distressed Die Hard Undershirt and Pants were displayed in this unique setting along with 100 other iconic costumes from the 1900's to present day. At this time the Die Hard costume is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian.
For Vance, total involvement and a collaborative spirit are key. As a costume designer she found she had influence over the look and feel of a film, producing was a natural segue. Not one to limit her creative reach, she channeled her energies into producing as well as costume designing the studio films Time Cop, Judgment Night and The Getaway. The Independent films that Vance shepherded from script to screen and produced are Embrace of the Vampire, The Legend of Gator Face and Digging to China. Vance developed the concept, designed and was an executive producer on the television series Pacific Blue. She also designed and produced the television series Unknown Sender. For theater she designed the play In Heat and painted the scenic backdrop for the play along with another designer/painter. The play was reviewed in the LA Times as being OZ like. In 2016 Vance costumed designed Betraying the Lion a play (filmed) set in the16th century Venice Ghetto with 25 actors having significant parts. The play was staged at The Museum of Tolerance.costume designer- Production Designer
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Patrizia von Brandenstein was born in 1943 in Arizona, USA. She is a production designer and art director, known for Amadeus (1984), The Untouchables (1987) and Limitless (2011).production designer- Costume Designer
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Deborah L. Scott was born in 1954. She is known for Titanic (1997), Minority Report (2002) and Avatar (2009). She is married to Tim Suhrstedt.- Production Designer
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Anne Seibel is known for Marie Antoinette (2006), Midnight in Paris (2011) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).- Art Director
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Stefan Speth is known for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), The Martian (2015) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).- Art Director
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Rod McLean is known for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Hugo (2011).- Art Director
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Lydia Fry is known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Spectre (2015).- Art Director
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Bence Erdelyi is known for Dune (2021), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).- Costume Designer
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Yohji Yamamoto was born on 3 October 1943 in Yokohama, Japan. He is a costume designer and composer, known for The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003), Until the End of the World (1991) and Outrage (2010).- Production Designer
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Jiuping Cao is known for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), The Road Home (1999) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004).- Art Director
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Patrick M. Sullivan Jr. was born on 11 November 1967 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Patrick M. is an art director and production designer, known for Behind the Candelabra (2013), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).- Director
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Huaiai Chen is known for Farewell My Concubine (1993), Da he ben liu (1978) and Qing chun zhi ge (1959).- Production Designer
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Brian Bishop is known for The Avengers (1998), GoldenEye (1995) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).- Art Department
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Rachid Quiat is known for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Inception (2010) and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015).- Art Department
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Michael Guyett was born in 1950 in Fulham, London, England, UK. Michael is known for Lifeforce (1985), The Impossible (2012) and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).- Art Department
Dave Coldham was born in 1935 in Barnet, Middlesex, England, UK. He is known for Lifeforce (1985), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Willow (1988). He died in 2008 in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK.- Art Department
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George Ball was born in June 1932 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. George is known for Brazil (1985), Superman (1978) and The Dark Crystal (1982). George died in 2019 in Mortlake, London, England, UK.- Production Designer
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Kevin Phipps was born on 1 September 1960 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a production designer and art director, known for V for Vendetta (2005), The Fifth Element (1997) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). He has been married to Deborah Harkness since 1987. They have three children.- Art Department
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Graeme Purdy was born on 1 April 1963 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a set decorator, known for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Aladdin (2019) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).- Art Director
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Gary Tomkins was born in 1963 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an art director, known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Sleepy Hollow (1999).- Art Department
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Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally titanic filmmaker whose work remained stylistically sui generis through arguably the most impressive decades of 20th century filmmaking. The quietude of La Terra Trema (1948) is managed with an operatic virtuosity, and the baroque period pieces-for which he is best known today-clearly point to a noble upbringing. However, there is also a Gothic character to Visconti-embodied in the spired cathedral that overshadowed his childhood-that has remained largely unsung. The relationship between the Visconti family and Gothic architecture stretches back to the Medieval Era. In 1386, Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti envisioned a cathedral in the heart of Milan, though it was fated to remain under construction for almost half a millennium until Napoleon ordered its completion in the 19th century. Just as his ancestor brought Northern Gothic architecture to Italy, so, in 1943, did Luchino introduce the groundbreaking cinematic genre of Italian neorealism to the peninsula. Doing away with sets, neorealist cinema was set in the raw environment of postwar Italy. In one sense anti-architectural in its desire to transcend the bonds of interior space, this same ambition is what makes the style a perfect cinematic analog to the Gothic. The Gothic is an architecture of exteriority: Throwing ceilings to the sky and opening walls onto the outside with large windows, the Gothic presents light as the manifestation of divinity within a place of worship. The mysticism of light, dating back to the pseudo-Dionysian theology of Abbot Suger of St. Denis Cathedral, translates well to the medium of light that is the cinema. In any Visconti work, lighting is intimately connected to set design: It is often seen in the gleam of curtains, the radiance of starlight or the glow of Milanese fog, where the director carries the religiosity of Gothic architecture into his realism. Visconti's religion (or should we say religions? For he was also a Marxist) adds an ethical weight, powerful and challenging, to his works. The term decadence, often associated with Visconti, only attains meaning through being in excess of contemporary mores. Neither the Catholic Church nor the Italian communists could accept Visconti's homosexuality, and a resultant displaced angst is plainly worn by his protagonists-monumental individuals who bear the full weight of their social milieus. While neorealism has come to be packaged with its own mythology-a new cinema for a liberated nation, the idea of a new "Italian" style-re-centering our historical gaze on the Gothic Visconti allows one's imagination to spread across a much larger plane of geography and time. From his cinematic apprenticeship with Jean Renoir in France-the very cradle of Gothic architecture-to his German trilogy, Visconti's style has always been one of cosmopolitan effort. This international flavor also matches the deeper etymological referent of the Gothic-the Goths, those barbarian invaders who toppled the Roman Empire. Among Visconti's formal signatures are many borrowings from foreign directors, including the particularly pronounced influence of Jean Renoir, Josef Von Sternberg and Elia Kazan. Global in scope, timeless in influence and architectural in spirit: This is the legacy of Luchino Visconti.- Set Decorator
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Carlo Gervasi was a set decorator and production designer, known for Equilibrium (2002), The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Exorcist: The Beginning (2004). He died in 2005 in Italy.- Art Department
Derek Creedon was born in 1935 in Durham, England, UK. He is known for Lifeforce (1985), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). He died on 23 March 2008.- Art Department
Kavin Hall is known for The Avengers (1998), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Judge Dredd (1995).- Art Director
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Steven Lawrence was born on 31 March 1965 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is an art director and actor, known for Titanic (1997), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Casino Royale (2006).- Costume Designer
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Consolata Boyle was born in Dublin, Ireland. Consolata is a costume designer and producer, known for The Queen (2006), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) and Enola Holmes 2 (2022). Consolata has been married to Donald Taylor Black since 1980. They have one child.- Make-Up Department
Lynda Armstrong is known for Batman (1989), 101 Dalmatians (1996) and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).make-up- Producer
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John Boorman attended Catholic school (Salesian Order) although his family was not, in fact, Roman Catholic. His first job was for a dry-cleaner. Later, he worked as a critic for a women's journal and for a radio station until he entered the television business, working for the BBC in Bristol. There, he started as assistant but worked later as director on documentaries, such as The Newcomers (1964). His friendship with Lee Marvin allowed him to work in Hollywood (e.g. Point Blank (1967) and Hell in the Pacific (1968)) from where he returned to the UK (e.g. Leo the Last (1970), Zardoz (1974) or Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)). He became famous for Excalibur (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985) and his autobiographic story Hope and Glory (1987) where he tells his own experiences as a child after World War II and which brought him another Academy Award Nomination after Deliverance (1972).- Producer
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Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was especially fond of films with Vincent Price). When he was in the ninth grade, his artistic talent was recognized by a local garbage company, when he won a prize for an anti-litter poster he designed. The company placed this poster on all of their garbage trucks for a year. After graduating from high school, he attended California Institute of the Arts. Like so many others who graduated from that school, Burton's first job was as an animator for Disney.
His early film career was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but it's his talent and originality that have kept him at the top of the Hollywood tree. He worked on such films as The Fox and the Hound (1981) and The Black Cauldron (1985), but had some creative differences with his colleagues. Nevertheless, Disney recognized his talent, and gave him the green light to make Vincent (1982), an animated short about a boy who wanted to be just like Vincent Price. Narrated by Price himself, the short was a critical success and won several awards. Burton made a few other short films, including his first live-action film, Frankenweenie (1984). A half-hour long twist on the tale of Frankenstein, it was deemed inappropriate for children and wasn't released. But actor Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman) saw Frankenweenie (1984), and believed that Burton would be the right man to direct him in his first full-length feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). The film was a surprise success, and Burton instantly became popular. However, many of the scripts that were offered to him after this were essentially just spin-offs of the film, and Burton wanted to do something new.
For three years, he made no more films, until he was presented with the script for Beetlejuice (1988). The script was wild and wasn't really about anything, but was filled with such artistic and quirky opportunities, Burton couldn't say no. Beetlejuice (1988) was another big hit, and Burton's name in Hollywood was solidified. It was also his first film with actor Michael Keaton. Warner Bros. then entrusted him with Batman (1989), a film based on the immensely popular comic book series of the same name. Starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, the film was the most financially successful film of the year and Burton's biggest box-office hit to date. Due to the fantastic success of his first three films, he was given the green light to make his next film, any kind of film he wanted. That film was Edward Scissorhands (1990), one of his most emotional, esteemed and artistic films to date. Edward Scissorhands (1990) was also Burton's first film with actor Johnny Depp. Burton's next film was Batman Returns (1992), and was darker and quirkier than the first one, and, while by no means a financial flop, many people felt somewhat disappointed by it. While working on Batman Returns (1992), he also produced the popular The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), directed by former fellow Disney Animator Henry Selick. Burton reunited with Johnny Depp on the film Ed Wood (1994), a film showered with critical acclaim, Martin Landau won an academy award for his performance in it, and it is very popular now, but flopped during its initial release. Burton's subsequent film, Mars Attacks! (1996), had much more vibrant colors than his other films. Despite being directed by Burton and featuring all-star actors including Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan and Michael J. Fox, it received mediocre reviews and wasn't immensely popular at the box office, either.
Burton returned to his darker and more artistic form with the film Sleepy Hollow (1999), starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Casper Van Dien. The film was praised for its art direction and was financially successful, redeeming Burton of the disappointment many had felt by Mars Attacks! (1996). His next film was Planet of the Apes (2001), a remake of the classic of the same name. The film was panned by many critics but was still financially successful. While on the set of Planet of the Apes (2001), Burton met Helena Bonham Carter, with whom he has two children. Burton directed the film Big Fish (2003) - a much more conventional film than most of his others, it received a good deal of critical praise, although it disappointed some of his long-time fans who preferred the quirkiness of his other, earlier films. Despite the fluctuations in his career, Burton proved himself to be one of the most popular directors of the late 20th century. He directed Johnny Depp once again in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), a film as quirky anything he's ever done.- Art Director
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Scott Plauche is known for Logan (2017), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).- Production Designer
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Donald Graham Burt is known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Mank (2020) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).- Visual Effects
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Art director and painter, trained in stage design in Düsseldorf and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Hermann Warm was an important figure in the German expressionist cinema of the 1920's and early 30's. He was instrumental in changing traditional concepts of using painted backdrops in favour of three-dimensional constructions. He was also among the first to petition producers to give the art director copies of film scripts, in order for pre-production sketches to be made.
Warm began in films in 1912 with Deutsche Vitaskop, after working as a theatrical designer. Following a stint designing stage sets for the German Army in Vilnius, he joined Decla-Bioskop as full art director in 1919, often working in close collaboration with Walter Röhrig. Some of Warm's best work was for the directors Fritz Lang, (designing the famous sets for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)), Henrik Galeen (The Student of Prague (1926)) and Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr (1932)). By the late 1930's, Warm found regular film work as a free-lancer more difficult to come by, having repeatedly failed to obtain a long-term contract from Ufa. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1941. Though he returned to Germany six years later, he never again achieved the same level of artistic success.