Al Ybarra

Alfred Ybarra (born December 11, 1906 in Mexico , † May 18, 1986 in Burbank , California , United States ) was a Mexican-born painter , architect and film architect with a career in Hollywood of 32 years .

Live and act

Alfred Ybarra began his professional career as a draftsman in an architectural office and worked in this role in Mexico City and several American cities. His paintings were u. a. bought by the then President of Mexico. In New York City he was involved in the construction of the Empire State Building .

He began as a draftsman in Hollywood (most recently in 1943 for When you said goodbye ) before he was appointed chief architect in 1943. In 1947 he was promoted to the A-League of American production designers with his designs for John Ford's command of conscience . He then worked for John Wayne's Batjac production company for twelve years . His best-known works include not only Wayne classics such as the airplane drama It's Always Day and the Perseverance Western Alamo , but also works by other well-known directors such as the revolutionary western Vera Cruz (by Robert Aldrich ) and Sierra Charriba (by Sam Peckinpah ), who also play in Mexico ). But Ybarra also designed buildings to completely different film genres such as to the Jules Verne film version Five Weeks in a Balloon , and that in the Maya gambling -Culture Drama Kings of the Sun .

With the end of the 1960s, Ybarra ended his career and withdrew to his retirement.

Filmography

• 1944: Goin 'to Town
• 1944: Three is a Family
• 1945: Music in the Sky
• 1947: Command of Conscience ( The Fugitive )
• 1947: Adventure in Sicily ( Adventures of Casanova )
• 1948: Sofia
• 1949: Borderline
• 1949: One Way Street
• 1950: The Bullfighter and the Lady
• 1952: The Fabulous Senorita
• 1952: Bal Tabarin
• 1952: Marijuana ( Big Jim McLain )
• 1953: The Mysterious Testament ( Plunder of the Sun )
• 1953: Wilde Glut ( Blowing Wild )
• 1953: I'm called Hondo ( Hondo )
• 1954: The High and the Mighty ( The High and the Mighty )
• 1954: Vera Cruz
• 1954: Track in mountains ( Track of the Cat )
• 1955: The Yellow Stream ( Blood Alley )
• 1956: Towards the Sun ( Run for the Sun )
• 1956: Gun the Man Down
• 1957: The City of the Lost ( Legend of the Lost )
• 1957: Quantez, the dead city ( Quantez )
• 1958: Storm over Eden ( Raw Wind in Eden )
• 1958: Patrol westward ( Escort West )
• 1960: Alamo ( The Alamo )
• 1961: Devils in the Far East ( Marines Let's Go )
• 1961: The Comancheros ( The Comancheros )
• 1962: Five Weeks in a Balloon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon )
• 1963: Kings of the Sun ( Kings of the Sun )
• 1964: Sierra Charriba ( Major Dundee )
• 1965: Rancho River ( The Rare Breed )
• 1966: Storm at Height 404 ( The Young Warriors )
• 1967: The Five Outlaws ( Hour of the Gun )
• 1967: The Bolivar Villains ( The Pink Jungle )
• 1969: The Madonna's Gold ( Desperate Mission )

literature

• 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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 490.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The life data given in IMDb - “26. March 1905 to March 25, 2001 ”- are completely wrong, see also California Death Index
2. ↑ 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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 490.

Web links

• Al Ybarra in the Internet Movie Database (English)