Haldane Douglas

Haldane Douglas (born August 13, 1892 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † May 26, 1980 in Orange County , California ) was an American artist , art director and production designer who was nominated for an Oscar for best production design.

Life

After attending school, Douglas first studied art at the University of Pittsburgh and later from 1926 to 1928 at André Lhote's painting school in Paris . He worked as an architect, painter and graphic artist. He was then a lecturer at the Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles , before starting his career as a production designer at 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and for the first time at Gehn wir stroll (On the Avenue, 1937) by Roy Del Ruth with Dick Powell , Madeleine Carroll and Alice Faye was involved in the making of a film.

Haldane, who was from 1941 to 1947 as an art director at 20th Century Fox contracted was in the Oscar ceremony in 1944 together with Hans Dreier and Bertram C. Granger for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film Whom the Bell Tolls (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943) nominated. 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.

1941: Doomed to Live ( Among the Living )

1942: The Glass Key ( The Glass Key )

1943: Whom the Bell Tolls ( For Whom the Bell Tolls )

1945: crooks and gangsters ( Salty O'Rourke )

1947: Rough Harvest ( Wild Harvest )

personal data
SURNAME	Douglas, Haldane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1980
Place of death	Orange County , California