Eric Stacey

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Eric G. Stacey (born December 5, 1903 in London , † May 1, 1969 in Los Angeles County , California ) was an American production manager and assistant director who was nominated most often for the Oscar for best assistant director , without this ever to obtain.

Life

Stacey began in 1933 as an assistant director at Deluge and worked in this role until 1940 in the production of twelve other films. At the Oscar awards in 1936 , 1937 and 1938 he was nominated three times in a row for the Oscar for best assistant director, which was only awarded for a few years, but did not receive it. The nominations were made for the films The Misery (1935) in 1936, The Garden of Allah (1936) in 1937 and A Star Rises (1937) in 1938.

Other films that he made with him as assistant director were Gone with the Wind (1939), Rebecca (1940) and The Scarlet Riders (1940). He has worked with film directors such as Richard Boleslawski , William A. Wellman , Jack Conway , Victor Fleming , Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille .

After 1940, Stacey worked as a production manager and in the years that followed, until his death, he oversaw the production of nearly thirty films such as Die phantastische Reise (1966) and Der Frauenmörder von Boston (1967) by Richard Fleischer and Derek Flint - hard as Feuerstein (1968 ) by Gordon Douglas and (as producer) Der Fischer von Galiläa (1959) by Frank Borzage .

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