Bertram C. Granger
Bertram Cecil Granger (born March 31, 1892 in Rawlins , Wyoming , † October 28, 1967 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American artist , art director and production designer who was twice nominated for the Oscar for best production design.
Life
Granger began his career as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry with the 1935 comedy College Scandal, directed by Elliott Nugent , with Arline Judge , Kent Taylor and Wendy Barrie in the lead roles. In the period that followed, he worked on the staging of seventy other films until 1962.
At the Oscar ceremony in 1944 Granger was twice for the Academy Award for Best Production Design nominated: first, together with Hans Dreier and Haldane Douglas for the production design in the color film Whom the Bell Tolls (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943). In this film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Ernest Hemingway were Gary Cooper , Ingrid Bergman and Katina Paxinou directed by Sam Wood can be seen in the lead roles. On the other hand with Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté for the set design in the black and white film Five Graves to Cairo (Five Graves to Cairo, 1943), a war film directed by Billy Wilder with Franchot Tone , Anne Baxter and Erich von Stroheim .
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: College Scandal
- 1943: Five Graves to Cairo ( Five Graves to Cairo )
- 1943: Whom the Bell Tolls ( For Whom the Bell Tolls )
- 1944: Woman without a conscience ( Double Indemnity )
- 1944: Ministry of Fear ( Ministry of Fear )
- 1945: The Lost Weekend ( The Lost Weekend )
- 1948: Smugglers from Saigon ( Saigon )
- 1948: You're still alive for 105 minutes ( Sorry, Wrong Number )
- 1948: The death detractors ( Whispering Smith )
- 1948: His angel with the two pistols ( The Paleface )
- 1949: Bloody Diamonds ( Rope of Sand )
- 1949: Knight Hank, the Terror of the Round Table ( A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court )
- 1949: The Death Riders of Laredo ( Streets of Laredo )
- 1949: The Vanquished Miser ( Sorrowful Jones )
- 1950: Thelma Jordon criminal case ( The File on Thelma Jordon )
- 1950: The Farm of the Taken ( The Furies )
- 1951: United in Vengeance ( The Great Missouri Raid )
- 1952: The Red Devils of Arizona ( Flaming Feather )
- 1952: The City of a Thousand Dangers ( The Atomic City )
- 1952: The Corsair's Lover ( Caribbean )
- 1952: Mistress of the Outlaws ( Hurricane Smith )
- 1953: The Beast of the Wild ( Arrowhead )
- 1953: Flight to Tangier ( Flight to Tangier )
- 1956: Train of the Fearless ( Westward Ho the Wagons! )
- 1957: Hell of a Thousand Tortures ( Run of the Arrow )
- 1957: Siren in Blond ( Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? )
- 1957: Embers under the ashes ( Peyton Place )
- 1959: One shot and 50 dead ( aka Jesse James )
- 1962: Lawman (TV series)
Web links
- Bertram C. Granger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Granger, Bertram C. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Granger, Bertram Cecil (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist, art director and production designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1892 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rawlins , Wyoming |
DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1967 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California |