John Graysmark

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John Richard Graysmark (born March 26, 1935 in London , United Kingdom , † October 10, 2010 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a British film architect .

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Through his father, who was employed by the Elstree film studios, John Graysmark made early contact with the film industry. At the age of 13 he attended a special architecture school and was already working as an architect as a teenager. At the age of 21 he made his debut as a film illustrator with Anatole Litvaks Anastasia . Over the next twelve years, Graysmark worked his way up to film architect, most recently as an assistant to chief architects such as Don Ashton and John Howell . In these subordinate functions, he was also involved in ambitious large-scale productions such as The Guns of Navarone , Lawrence of Arabia , Lord Jim and 2001: A Space Odyssey .

During the early 1970s, Graysmark became one of the leading designers of film structures in British cinema. He designed the sets of historical and biographical subjects such as The Young Lion (for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1973 ) as well as those of contemporary action stories ( James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun ). Graysmark's move to Hollywood gave his career a further boost.

Graysmark has now, since 1980 in the position of a production designer, been brought in frequently for furnishing-intensive fabrics such as Flash Gordon (1980), Ragtime (1981), The Bounty (1984) and Robin Hood - King of Thieves (1991). In 1982 he received his second Oscar nomination for Ragtime . In 1968/69 John Graysmark had also worked for British series television at short notice and designed the buildings for Department S , among other things .

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  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 372.

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SURNAME Graysmark, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graysmark, John Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , United States