Claude E. Carpenter

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Claude E. Carpenter (born September 26, 1904 in Glendale , Utah , † February 18, 1976 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American production designer who was nominated three times for the Oscar for best production design.

Life

Carpenter began his career as a production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1938 where under the direction of George Stevens incurred Adventure Gunga Din (Gunga Din) with Cary Grant , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Victor McLaglen . Until 1968 he worked on the staging of over sixty films.

At the Academy Awards in 1945 he was nominated for the first time for the Oscar for best production design in a black and white film, together with Albert S. D'Agostino , Carroll Clark and Darrell Silvera for the musical film Step Lively (1944) by Tim Whelan with Frank Sinatra , George Murphy and Adolphe Menjou .

Carpenter again received the next Oscar nomination for the best production design in a black and white film together with Albert S. D'Agostino, Darrell Silvera and Jack Okey in 1946 for Experiment in Terror (1944), one from Jacques Tourneur with Hedy Lamarr , George Brent and Paul Lukas in the main roles.

His third and final nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a black and white film received Carpenter common Lyle R. Wheeler , Leland Fuller and Thomas Little at the Academy Awards in 1953 for the directed by Elia Kazan incurred feature film Viva Zapata! (1952) with Marlon Brando as ' Emiliano Zapata ' and Jean Peters and Anthony Quinn in other leading roles.

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SURNAME Carpenter, Claude E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American production designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Glendale , Utah
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1976
Place of death Seattle , Washington