Augie Lohman
August "Augie" Jasper Lohman , also led by AJ Lohman (born April 10, 1911 in Colorado Springs , United States , † August 7, 1989 in Sparks , Nevada , United States), was an American special effects designer for film.
Live and act
Lohman came to Los Angeles as a teenager, where he was already a resident according to the 1930 census. It is possible that he made his first contact with the film business there before the Second World War . After his military service, Lohman returned to Hollywood in 1945 and was immediately employed by the small company Monogram Pictures as a special effects designer for B-films in the Charlie Chan series . Lohman remained until the mid-1950s to work on second-rate films limited, only then allowed him even in more important productions such as John Huston's whaling adventure Moby Dick , William Wyler's Quaker drama Persuasion and John Ford Western The last command his work therein .
In 1961, Lohman received an Oscar nomination for his effects design for the ship disaster film Höllenfahrt . Subsequently, Augie Lohman continued to create special effects for a variety of now mostly high-quality entertainment films until he retired from the film business in 1979. He served a wide variety of genres (westerns, war films, political thrillers, police films, literary adaptations, comedies and horror films) and was among others on The Longest Day , Tunnel 28 , Sierra Charriba , The Taming of the Shrew , The Three Days of the Condor , The Last Sniper , A corpse for dessert and the electric rider involved.
Filmography (selection)
- 1946: Dark Alibi
- 1946: Charlie Chan - Dangerous Money ( Dangerous Money )
- 1947: High Conquest
- 1947: Violence
- 1947: Black Gold
- 1948: Song of My Heart
- 1951: Skipalong Rosenbloom
- 1951: Lost Continent
- 1952: Mutiny on the pirate ship (Mutiny)
- 1952: Battle Zone Pacific
- 1952: Hiawatha
- 1953: The Maze
- 1954: Fire Dragons Combat Squadron (Dragonfly Squadron)
- 1954: Who Laughs - Flies Out (The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters)
- 1955: An Anapolis Story
- 1955: Sudden Danger
- 1956: Moby Dick
- 1956: Alluring Temptation ( The Friendly Persuasion )
- 1957: Spook Chasers
- 1957: Alarm for exclusion zone 7 ( The Monster That Challenged the World )
- 1958: The last command (The Horse Soldiers)
- 1959: The Rebel Set
- 1959: The Beast ( The Bat )
- 1960: Descent into Hell (The Last Voyage)
- 1960: Saipan raid party (Hell to Eternity)
- 1960: Panzer Forward (Armored Command)
- 1961: The Ruler of Cornwall (Jack the Giant Killer)
- 1961: The Longest Day (The Longest Day)
- 1962: Tunnel 28
- 1962: Captain Sindbad (Captain Sinbad)
- 1964: Sierra Charriba (Major Dundee)
- 1965: Our man in Rio (Si tutto le donne del mondo)
- 1965: The Bible ( La bibbia )
- 1966: The Taming of the Shrew (The Taming of the Shrew)
- 1966: Doctor Faustus
- 1967: Barbarella
- 1968: Candy
- 1969: The Hellhounds (La spina dorsale del diavolo)
- 1972: Los Angeles East Police Station (The New Centurions)
- 1974: The Man Without Nerves ( Breakout )
- 1975: A Dead Body for Dessert (Murder by Death)
- 1975: Between Twelve and Three (From Noon till Three)
- 1976: The Shootist (The Shootist)
- 1976: Bobby Deerfield
- 1977: The Cheap Detective (The Cheap Detective)
- 1978: The Crazy California Hotel (California Suite)
- 1978: Philadelphia Clan (Winter Kills)
- 1979: The Electric Horseman (The Electric Horseman)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Augie Lohman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lohman, Augie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lohman, August Jasper (full name at birth); Lohman, AJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American special effects designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colorado Springs , Colorado , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1989 |
| Place of death | Sparks , Nevada , United States |