Arthur Johns

Arthur W. Johns (born October 30, 1889 in Kansas , † September 4, 1947 in Los Angeles ) was an American film sound engineer .

Life

Arthur Johns worked briefly as a film editor in the mid-1920s . From 1939 he worked as a sound engineer , as he for the first time in Victor Fleming's Southern epic Gone with the Wind ( Gone with the Wind ) was used and for which he promptly along with Jack Cosgrove and Fred Albin for the Oscar in the category Best Special Effects nomination. From then on he took care of the sound engineering at various film studios under the direction of well-known directors such as Ernst Lubitsch , Orson Welles and Robert Siodmak . Directed by Alfred Hitchcock , he was responsible for the sound engineering for Rebecca (1940) and Ich kampf um dich ( Spellbound , 1945). For Rebecca , he received in 1941, another Oscar nomination, the 1945, the third of John Cromwell When you leave tookest ( Since You Went Away ) followed. For the film comedy Der Wundermann ( Wonder Man ) with Danny Kaye in the lead role, Johns was finally able to win the Oscar together with John P. Fulton .

Johns died in Los Angeles in 1947 at the age of 57 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

1940: Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects for Gone With The Wind with Jack Cosgrove and Fred Albin

1941: Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects for Rebecca with Jack Cosgrove

1945: Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects for When You Say Goodbye with Jack Cosgrove

1946: Oscar in the Best Special Effects category for The Wonder Man with John P. Fulton

personal data
SURNAME	Johns, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johns, Arthur W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sound engineer at the film
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kansas
DATE OF DEATH	September 4, 1947
Place of death	los Angeles