Darrell Silvera
Darrell Silvera (birth name: Kingsley Redvers Silvera ; born December 18, 1900 in St. Andrews , Jamaica , † July 22, 1983 in San Diego , California ) was an American art director and set designer who won seven Academy Awards for best Production design was nominated.
Life
Originally from Jamaica, Silvera began his career as a production designer and art director in the Hollywood film industry in 1934 with the film Kentucky Kernels, and in the course of his more than forty years of work he was involved in the equipment of around 400 films and television series .
At the Academy Awards in 1942 he was nominated for the first time for the Oscar for the best production design and together with Perry Ferguson , Van Nest Polglase and A. Roland Fields for the set in the black and white film Citizen Kane (1941). In 1943 there was another nomination for the production design in the black and white film The Splendor of the House of Amberson (1942) together with Albert S. D'Agostino and again A. Roland Fields. For the black and white film Flight for Freedom (1943) he received another nomination for an Oscar in the category of best production design together with D'Agostino, Carroll Clark and Harley Miller in 1944 , as well as at the 1945 Academy Awards with D'Agostino, Clark and Claude E. Carpenter for the sets in the black and white film Step Lively (1944).
In 1946 he was nominated together with D'Agostino, Jack Okey and Carpenter again for the Oscar for the best production design in the black and white film Experiment in Terror (1944), which was also shown in cinemas under the title Experiment Perilous . Another nomination for an Oscar in this category followed in 1956 together with Joseph C. Wright for the black and white film The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).
Silvera received his seventh and final nomination for an Oscar for best production design at the 1971 Academy Awards, together with Tambi Larsen for Cursed to Doomsday (1970). Most recently, he worked on the production design for the film Driver in 1978 .
Filmography (selection)
More movies
- 1937: Hitting a New High
- 1938: Pacific Liner
- 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1940: lucky guys
- 1940: Miss Kitty
- 1941: The Devil and Daniel Webster
- 1941: suspicion
- 1942: Joan of Paris
- 1942: Cat People
- 1943: Flight for Freedom
- 1943: For ever and a day (Forever and a Day)
- 1943: Hitler's Children
- 1943: Higher and Higher
- 1944: Step Lively
- 1944: Music in Manhattan
- 1945: The bells of St. Marien
- 1945: The spiral staircase
- 1945: Sing Your Way Home
- 1946: Notorious
- 1947: Golden poison
- 1948: Berlin Express
- 1952: Macau
- 1952: Before the New Day (Clash by Night)
- 1957: SOS spaceship
- 1962: The man who shot Liberty Valance
TV Shows
- 1957–1960: Father Knows Best
- 1959-1961: Dennis the Menace
- 1960–1961: The Donna Reed Show
- 1965: Hazel
- 1970: A sheriff in New York
Web links
- Darrell Silvera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silvera, Darrell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silvera, Kingsley Redvers |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American production designer and art director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Andrews , Jamaica |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1983 |
| Place of death | San Diego , California |