A. Roland Fields
Ansel Roland Fields (born June 13, 1900 in New Orleans , † September 13, 1950 in Los Angeles ) was an American film architect (set designer) who received the Oscar for the best film construction at the 1946 Academy Awards .
biography
Fields began working as a set designer on the Kentucky Kernels film in 1934 and has worked on more than forty films in the course of his tenure in the Hollywood film industry .
At the Academy Awards in 1942 he was nominated for the first time for the Oscar for best production design, with Perry Ferguson , Van Nest Polglase and Darrell Silvera for the black and white film Citizen Kane . Another nomination in this category followed in 1943 with Albert S. D'Agostino and Darrell Silvera for The Shine of the House of Amberson (1942).
In 1946 he and Wiard you won the Oscar for the best film architecture in the black and white film Espionage in Far East (1945).
Other well-known films in which he worked as a film architect were Cat People (1942), I Followed a Zombie (1943), Winchester '73 (1950) and, most recently, Pirates of Macao (1951).
Web links
- A. Roland Fields in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Roland Fields in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fields, A. Roland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fields, Ansel Roland (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American production designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1950 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |