Ernst Fegté

Ernst Fegté (born September 28, 1900 in Hamburg , † December 15, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) was a German production designer who won an Oscar for best production design .

biography

After his immigration , Fegté became a production designer for the film industry in the mid-1920s and first worked on the silent film Amor im Skyscraper (1925) by Paul Sloane . In the course of his career he was involved in the making of around 100 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1944 he was nominated for an Oscar for the best production design in the black and white film Five Graves to Cairo (1943), alongside Hans Dreier and Bertram C. Granger . In 1945 , together with Howard Bristol, an Oscar nomination for the best production design in the color film The Corsair Ship (1944) by David Butler .

In 1946 he received the Oscar for best production design for the color film The Pirate and the Lady (1944) by Mitchell Leisen together with Hans Dreier and Sam Comer .

He received his last nomination at the Academy Awards in 1951 together with George Sawley for the color film Endstation Moon (1950) by Irving Pichel .

Other well-known films with sets designed by him and as art director were The General died at Dawn (1936) by Lewis Milestone , where he was also responsible for the set with the also-born German Hans Dreier, The Cardsharp (1941) by Preston Sturges , My wife, the witch (1942) by René Clair and again in collaboration with Hans Dreier, Sensation in Morgan's Creek (1944) by P. Sturges, The uncanny guest by Lewis Allen (1944), The last weekend (1945) by René Clair and The Black Rider (1947) by James Edward Grant .

From the 1950s onwards, he also worked on the equipment of television series such as The Adventures of Superman (1952 to 1953) and Sergeant Preston (1958).

Web links

• Ernst Fegté in the Internet Movie Database (English)