Edward Carrick

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Edward Carrick , born Edward Anthony Craig , (born January 3, 1905 in London , United Kingdom , † January 21, 1998 in Thame , Oxfordshire , United Kingdom) was a British film architect , author, painter and draftsman.

Life

The son of the theater maker and set designer Edward Gordon Craig and a violinist received his technical and artistic tools from his father, whose last name he abandoned in order not to be constantly associated with him. In 1928 he joined the film industry and worked for various production companies at the beginning of the talkie era. From 1933 to 1937 he was able to prove that he was a film architect in an abundance of cinema productions before he temporarily withdrew from active film work in 1937 in order to set up his own training facility for future film architects.

During World War II, Carrick was mostly involved in documentaries for the state-run Crown Film Unit . In the first twenty years after the war, Edward Carrick again designed numerous film structures for pure entertainment films, some of which were quite successful at the box office. In the 1950s, Carrick worked with virtually all German-speaking film artists who came to England to film: Maria Schell , Cornell Borchers , Horst Buchholz and above all Hardy Krüger , whose three British films he designed architecturally from 1956 to 1959. At the age of 60, Carrick retired from the film business.

Edward Carrick has also made a name for himself as a non-fiction author and published the following works in the 1940s:

  • Designing for Moving Pictures (1941)
  • Meet the Common People (1942)
  • Art and Design in British Films (1948).

A book about his father came out in 1968 under the title "Gordon Craig: the story of his life". Edward Carrick has also illustrated books and made numerous drawings, paintings and prints.

Movies

  • 1929: The Broken Melody
  • 1933: Loyalties
  • 1934: Autumn Crocus
  • 1934: Java Head
  • 1934: Sing As We Go
  • 1934: Lorna Doone
  • 1935: Midshipman Easy
  • 1935: The Amateur Gentleman ( The Amateur Gentleman )
  • 1936: Crime Over London
  • 1936: Accused
  • 1936: gangsters, women and diamonds ( Jump for Glory )
  • 1936: Laburnum Grove
  • 1936: OHMS
  • 1937: Jericho
  • 1940: Spring Offensive
  • 1941: Target for Tonight
  • 1942: Coastal Command
  • 1943: The True Story of Lilli Marlene
  • 1944: Western Approaches
  • 1946: School for Danger
  • 1947: Capatin Boycott
  • 1948: The Blue Lagoon ( The Blue Lagoon )
  • 1949: So check out who binds forever ( Fools Rush In )
  • 1949: The Master Thief of Paris ( The Spider and the Fly )
  • 1950: The Adventurers
  • 1952: A Food for the Fish ( The Gift Horse )
  • 1952: When the Heart Speaks ( So Little Time )
  • 1953: The Red Beret
  • 1953: Defeated Hatred ( The Kidnappers )
  • 1954: The Divided Heart ( The Divided Heart )
  • 1955: The Other Half Of Me ( Touch and Go )
  • 1955: Angel of Everyday Life ( The Feminine Touch )
  • 1956: The Long Arm ( The Long Arm )
  • 1956: Don't Look Back ( High Tide at Noon )
  • 1957: One came by ( The One That Got Away )
  • 1958: With your head through the wall ( Bachelor of Hearts )
  • 1959: Tiger Bay ( Tiger Bay )
  • 1959: The Deadly Trap ( Blind Date )
  • 1960: Mr. Miller is not a killer ( The Battle of the Sexes )
  • 1962: Village of the Daughters
  • 1962: The Boiled Out ( Maniac )
  • 1963: Every day a vacation day ( Every Day'sa Holiday )
  • 1965: Hysteria
  • 1965: Was It Really Murder? ( The Nanny )

literature

  • Helmut Weihsmann: Built Illusions. Architecture in the film. Vienna 1988, p. 342

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personal data
SURNAME Carrick, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craig, Edward Anthony (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film architect, author, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1998
Place of death Thame , Oxfordshire , UK