Bertram C. Granger

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Bertram Cecil Granger (born March 31, 1892 in Rawlins , Wyoming , † October 28, 1967 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American artist , art director and production designer who was twice nominated for the Oscar for best production design.

Life

Granger began his career as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry with the 1935 comedy College Scandal, directed by Elliott Nugent , with Arline Judge , Kent Taylor and Wendy Barrie in the lead roles. In the period that followed, he worked on the staging of seventy other films until 1962.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1944 Granger was twice for the Academy Award for Best Production Design nominated: first, together with Hans Dreier and Haldane Douglas for the production design in the color film Whom the Bell Tolls (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943). In this film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Ernest Hemingway were Gary Cooper , Ingrid Bergman and Katina Paxinou directed by Sam Wood can be seen in the lead roles. On the other hand with Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté for the set design in the black and white film Five Graves to Cairo (Five Graves to Cairo, 1943), a war film directed by Billy Wilder with Franchot Tone , Anne Baxter and Erich von Stroheim .

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SURNAME Granger, Bertram C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granger, Bertram Cecil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist, art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rawlins , Wyoming
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1967
Place of death Los Angeles , California