Addison Hehr

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Maj Addison Flick Hehr (born October 27, 1909 in Cleveland , Ohio , † February 27, 1971 in Canoga Park , California ) was an American film architect .

Life

Little is known about Hehr's early years; as early as the 1930 census he was listed as resident in Los Angeles . In Hollywood, only interrupted by his service as a major in the US Marine Corps during World War II , he was active in subordinate positions in the following two decades before he was first employed as a film architect in the early 1950s.

From 1951 to 1958 Hehr was in the service of Twentieth Century Fox , and from the following year he designed film structures for MGM . Most recently, Hehr was no longer tied to a production company and also worked for television. In his roughly two decades as chief designer, Hehr created sets for films in a wide variety of genres - from science fiction films ( The Day the Earth Stood Still ) to war drama ( The Desert Rats , Baptism of Fire, The Young Lions ) to Westerns (Avenger of the Disinherited, The Devil Wife of Texas , Missouri ) . They were films in which top stars like Gary Cooper , Doris Day , Marlon Brando , Marilyn Monroe , Robert Mitchum , Rock Hudson and William Holden played the leading roles.

Addison Fehr received an Oscar nomination for his joint set creation (with George W. Davis and Henry Grace, among others ) for the two grand winners Cimarron and That Was the Wild West . Addison Hehr was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) cemetery.

Filmography

  • 1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
  • 1952: Lure of the Wilderness
  • 1952: Four Pearls (O. Henry's Full House)
  • 1952: Night Without Sleep
  • 1953: The Desert Rats (The Desert Rats)
  • 1954: River of No Return (River of No Return)
  • 1954: The Coney Island Shrike (Gorilla at Large)
  • 1954: Princess of the Nile
  • 1955: The Untamed (Untamed)
  • 1955: Tokio-Story (House of Bamboo)
  • 1955: The big rain (The Rains of Ranchipur)
  • 1956 A kiss before death ( A Kiss Before Dying )
  • 1956: Baptism of Fire (Between Heaven and Hell)
  • 1957: Avengers of the Disinherited (The True Story of Jesse James)
  • 1957: The Way to the Gold
  • 1958: The Young Lions (The Young Lions)
  • 1958: A Man in His Prime (10 North Frederick)
  • 1959: The Beat Generation
  • 1959: When the Blood Boils (Never So Few)
  • 1960: Cimarron
  • 1962: How the West Was Won (How the West Was Won)
  • 1963: Slavehunter (Drums of Africa)
  • 1963: Separate Beds (The Wheeler Dealers)
  • 1964: ... and slammed him down (Guns of Diablo)
  • 1964: Curve Lily (Girl Happy)
  • 1965: A Zebra in the Kitchen
  • 1967: The Devil Woman of Texas (The Ballad of Josie)
  • 1968: Ice Station Zebra (Ice Station Zebra)
  • 1968: The third in ambush (Marlowe)
  • 1969: Ten hours for Virgil Tibbs (They Call Me Mister Tibbs)
  • 1971: Missouri (Wild Rovers)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hehr in United States Federal Census
  2. ^ Addison Hehr in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved November 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Addison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honest, Maj Addison Flick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1971
Place of death Canoga Park , California