Albert S. D'Agostino
Albert S. D'Agostino (born December 27, 1892 in New York City , † March 14, 1970 in Los Angeles ) was an American film architect .
Life
Albert S. D'Agostino studied architecture and mechanical design at Columbia University and the Mechanics Institute in his hometown of New York . From 1915 he initially worked as a set designer for the theater. As such, he was able to assert himself on Broadway . In 1918 he entered the film business, where he was able to gain a foothold as an assistant production designer at MGM . When the sound film era dawned, he was employed as a film architect for small production companies. From 1934 to 1936 worked at Universal Pictures , where he was often responsible for the construction of horror films such as The Werewolf of London (1935) and Dracula's Daughter (1936). In 1938 he finally got a contract with RKO Pictures , where he replaced Van Nest Polglase as senior art director of the studio in the 1940s and was employed until 1958. Similar to Polglase, D'Agostino was known for creating complex film structures despite often tight budgets and for adapting them to the psychological condition of the film characters using metaphorical imagery.
In the course of his career, D'Agostino was involved in more than 380 film productions, worked for well-known directors such as Orson Welles , Alfred Hitchcock , Jacques Tourneur , Robert Siodmak and Otto Preminger and was nominated five times for an Oscar in the category Best Production Design, among others for Welles' film The Splendor of the Amberson House (1942). He died in Los Angeles in 1970 at the age of 77.
Filmography (selection)
- 1921: Salvation Nell
- 1928: Ramona
- 1929: She Goes to War
- 1935: Werewolf of London ( Werewolf of London )
- 1935: The Raven ( The Raven )
- 1936: Deadly Rays ( The Invisible Ray )
- 1936: Dracula's Daughter ( Dracula's Daughter )
- 1936: Magnificent Brute
- 1938: Pacific Liner
- 1941: Mary and the Millionaire ( The Devil and Miss Jones )
- 1942: Joan of Paris
- 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons ( The Magnificent Ambersons )
- 1942: The fleet breaks through ( The Navy Comes Through )
- 1942: There were once honeymoon ( Once Upon a Honeymoon )
- 1942: Cat People ( Cat People )
- 1943: Hitler's Children
- 1943: Hunted by Agents ( Journey Into Fear )
- 1943: For ever and a day ( Forever and a Day )
- 1943: Flight for Freedom
- 1943: I Walked with a Zombie ( I Walked with a Zombie )
- 1943: This is my country ( This Land Is Mine )
- 1943: Regardless of losses ( Bombardier )
- 1943: The Sky's the Limit
- 1943: Higher and Higher
- 1944: The Curse of the Cat People
- 1944: Leather Neck ( Marine Raiders )
- 1944: Step Lively
- 1944: With rifle and lasso ( Tall in the Saddle )
- 1944: Music in Manhattan
- 1944: None But the Lonely Heart
- 1944: Murder, My Sweet
- 1944: Experiment in Terror
- 1945: With the Eyes of Love ( The Enchanted Cottage )
- 1945: The Body Snatcher ( The Body Snatcher )
- 1945: Steel storm ( Back to Bataan )
- 1945: The anglerfish of Cartagena ( The Spanish Main )
- 1945: Sing Your Way Home
- 1946: The spiral staircase ( The Spiral Staircase )
- 1946: Land of the Bandits ( Badman's Territory )
- 1946: The Stranger ( The Stranger )
- 1946: Notorious ( Notorious )
- 1947: Sinbad the Sailor ( Sinbad the Sailor )
- 1947: The farmer's daughter ( The Farmer's Daughter )
- 1947: The woman at the beach ( The Woman on the Beach )
- 1947: In the Crossfire ( Crossfire )
- 1947: Love is not that simple ( The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer )
- 1947: Goldenes Poison ( Out of the Past )
- 1948: Mother's Secret ( I Remember Mama )
- 1948: The Bells of Coaltown ( The Miracle of the Bells )
- 1948: Just for the sake of my wife ( Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House )
- 1948: Berlin Express
- 1948: They live at night ( They Live by Night )
- 1948: Rachel and the Stranger ( Rachel and the Stranger )
- 1949: Clear the ring for Stoker Thompson ( The Set-Up )
- 1949: The Window ( The Window )
- 1949: The red loop ( The Big Steal )
- 1950: Hell at the White Tower ( The White Tower )
- 1950: Never a Dull Moment
- 1951: The Ambitious ( Payment on Demand )
- 1951: The Thing ( The Thing from Another World )
- 1951: A Kind of Woman ( His Kind of Woman )
- 1951: Steel wings ( Flying Leathernecks )
- 1951: A Mother's Heart ( The Blue Veil )
- 1952: The Sons of the Three Musketeers ( At Sword's Point )
- 1952: Macau
- 1952: The Narrow Margin ( The Narrow Margin )
- 1952: Before the New Day ( Clash by Night )
- 1952: The Narrow Margin ( The Narrow Margin )
- 1952: The Big Sky - The Big Sky ( The Big Sky )
- 1952: Korea ( One Minute to Zero )
- 1953: Angel Face ( Angel Face )
- 1953: The Hitch-Hiker
- 1954: One night with Susanne ( Susan Slept Here )
- 1956: The Conqueror ( The Conqueror )
- 1957: Commit your ways you ( All Mine to Give )
- 1957: jet fighter ( Jet Pilot )
- 1958: Left and right of the marriage bed ( I Married a Woman )
- 1959: The world of sensations ( The Big Circus )
Awards
Albert S. D'Agostino was nominated five times for an Oscar in the category Best Production Design:
- 1937: Magnificent Brute (with Jack Otterson )
- 1943: The Splendor of the Amberson House (with A. Roland Fields and Darrell Silvera )
- 1944: Flight for Freedom (together with Carroll Clark , Darrell Silvera and Harley Miller )
- 1945: Step Lively (with Carroll Clark, Darrell Silvera and Claude E. Carpenter )
- 1946: Experiment in Terror (together with Jack Okey , Darrell Silvera and Claude E. Carpenter)
Web links
- Albert S. D'Agostino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Albert S. D'Agostino in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Albert S. D'Agostino on filmreference.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael L. Stephens: Art Directors in Cinema. A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary . McFarland, 1998, ISBN 0-7864-0312-8 , p. 66.
- ↑ cf. Gary Dorst in Cinefantastique , 1971, on filmreference.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | D'Agostino, Albert S. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1892 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1970 |
Place of death | los Angeles |