Carl Jules Weyl

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Carl Jules Weyl , born as Carl Julius Weyl , (born December 6, 1890 in Stuttgart ; † July 12, 1948 in Los Angeles ) was an American film architect of German origin, responsible for the buildings of the most important Warner Bros. film productions at the time the golden era of Hollywood .

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The native Carl Julius Weyl studied architecture in Dresden . Study trips took him to Belgium, Italy, Spain and Turkey. On March 28, 1912, he arrived from Bremen with Queen Luise in New York and finally settled in the USA. He first worked as an architect and designer in Chicago and had his own architectural office in the 1920s. The Hightower Apartments in Hollywood are among his early structures .

The Polish-born film architect Anton Grot was then able to persuade Weyl to work for the film as well. In 1935, Weyl signed a contract with Warner Bros., for which he wrote gangster films such as The Double Life of Dr. Clitterhouse , adventure legends like Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds , meticulously implemented biographies of famous contemporaries like Paul Ehrlich - A life for research and novel adaptations like The Secret of Malampur . Weyl was also involved in Confessions of a Nazi Spy , Hollywood's first specifically anti-Nazi propaganda production.

The Swabian reached his artistic peak in the 1940s with the optical design of two Humphrey Bogart evergreens: Weyl also designed the Arabic flair of the souks and the gambling den and pub ensemble of Rick's Café in Casablanca , as well as the morbid and glamorous world of the bright nightclubs and gloomy back rooms in the classic Philip Marlowe crime film Dead are fast asleep .

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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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 354.

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SURNAME Weyl, Carl Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyl, Carl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American film architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1948
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States