Carroll Clark

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Carroll Clark (born February 6, 1894 in Mountain View , Santa Clara County , California , † May 17, 1968 in Glendale , California) was an American art director and production designer who was nominated for an Oscar seven times in the category of best production design and once received the so-called Oscar for Science and Development (Scientific and Engineering Award).

Life

Carroll Clark began his work as an art director and production designer in the film industry in the mid-1920s and was involved in the equipment of more than 220 films after The Magic Garden (1927).

At the Academy Awards in 1935 he was with Van Nest Polglase for Dance with Me! (1934) nominated for the first time for the Oscar for best production design. Further nominations followed in 1936 with Van Nest Polglase for I dance into your heart (1935) and in 1938 for Ein Fräulein in Nöten ( A Damsel in Distress , 1937).

At the Academy Awards in 1943 he and F. Thomas Thompson from the Studio Art and Miniature Department of RKO Pictures received the so-called Oscar for Science and Development (Scientific and Engineering Award) "for the development and construction of a moving machine for the production of clouds and horizons" .

Further Oscar nominations for best production design followed in 1944 with Albert S. D'Agostino , Darrell Silvera and Harley Miller for the black and white film Flight for Freedom (1943), in 1945 with Albert S. D'Agostino, Darrell Silvera and Claude E. Carpenter for the black and white film Step Lively (1944), in 1962 with Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman for the black and white film the Absent-Minded Professor ( the Absent-Minded Professor , 1961) and most recently at the Oscar ceremony in 1965 with William H. Tuntke , Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman for color film Mary Poppins (1964).

Clark also helped set up the films Flying Down to Rio (1933), Notorious (1946), and Her Parents' Wedding Announce (1961). Over the course of his career, he has worked with film directors such as Mark Sandrich , George Stevens , Lothar Mendes , Tim Whelan , Robert Stevenson , Alfred Hitchcock , David Swift and Thornton Freeland .

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SURNAME Clark, Carroll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountain View , Santa Clara County , California
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1968
Place of death Glendale , California