Anthony Pratt

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Anthony DG Pratt (born November 27, 1937 in London , England ) is a British film architect .

Live and act

The great-nephew of William Henry Pratt, better known as the Frankenstein monster actor Boris Karloff , had received his professional training at an art school in London, the Polytechnic School of Art on Regent Street , and joined British television (Granada TV) as an apprentice drawing in 1959 .

A little later, Pratt was able to establish contact with the cinema, for which he was initially called in as a draftsman or decorative painter (including at Schloß des Schreckens , Der Inspektor , Nine Hours for Eternity , Kill or Cure and Judith ) . His teachers included colleagues such as Wilfred Shingleton and Carmen Dillon . In the mid-1960s he was also one of several illustrators in Stanley Kubrick's science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey . As an architectural assistant or simple architect, Pratt worked on A-productions such as Der Fremde im Haus (1966) and Die große Katharina (1967).

In 1968 he made his debut as a film architect; his first work was the US war film Hell Are We by John Boorman , for which he was to deliver some of his best work in the following years. Since then, Pratt's most notable designs include the designs for the fantasy sagas Zardoz and Excalibur , the costume films The Prince and the Beggar , The Man with the Iron Mask and The Phantom of the Opera , the Christmas story Santa Claus , the classic remake Victor / Victoria and the East Asia Adventure Rangoon - In the Heart of the Storm .

In addition to these stage-intensive large-scale productions, Anthony Pratt also supplied smaller, more Spartan and realistic pieces of time such as Baxter and the Bad Mother , Hope and Glory , Death Watch - The Purchased Death and Deep End . Among Pratt's most beautiful late works are the turn-of-the-century backdrops for the social chronicle from the early days of the IRA , Michael Collins .

In 1987 Anthony Pratt received the Evening Standard British Film Award for his work on Hope and Glory .

Filmography

as architect and chief designer (complete)

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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 322.

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personal data
SURNAME Pratt, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pratt, Anthony DG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH London