Fernando Carrere
Fernando Carrere (* 31 December 1909 in Mexico City , Mexico ; † 2. September 1998 in Los Angeles ) was a mexikanischstämmiger US - art director .
Life
Carrere was born in the Mexican capital to Spanish-French parents. He came to the USA at a young age. There he made contact with the film business through his older brother Edward Carrere and worked his way up from a prop master and set designer to a film architect and production designer.
It wasn't until late in the mid-1950s that Carrere was offered high-quality contracts. Initially, under chief designer Rudolph Sternad , he mainly designed the film structures for several ambitious large-scale productions by Stanley Kramer . In the 1960s there was a close collaboration with the director Blake Edwards , for whose turbulent comedies The Pink Panther , The Great Race Around the World and The Party Horror, he also created the decorations. At the beginning of the decade drew Carrere also for the buildings to John Sturges ' World War II drama Escape Escape and William Wyler's Verleumdungsmelodram Infam responsible. He received an Oscar nomination for the designs for the latter black and white film .
Fernando Carrere only worked irregularly in the 1970s before retiring into private life at the end of the decade at the age of 70.
Filmography
- 1955: Panther Cat (New York Confidential)
- 1956: Pride and the Passion (The Pride and the Passion)
- 1957: Rivals (Kings Go Forth)
- 1958: Escape in Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- 1959: On the Beach (On the Beach)
- 1960: Pay or Die
- 1961: The Ruler of Cornwall (Jack the Giant Killer)
- 1961: The Prisoner of Alcatraz (Birdman of Alcatraz)
- 1961: Infam (The Children's Hour)
- 1962: Broken Chains (The Great Escape)
- 1963: The Young Lovers
- 1963: The Pink Panther (The Pink Panther)
- 1964: The Great Race (The Great Race)
- 1966: What did you do in the war, Daddy? (What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?)
- 1966: water hole no. 3 (Water Hole No. 3)
- 1967: Gunn
- 1967: The Party (The Party)
- 1969: Darling Lili
- 1972: The Big Coup (Charley Varrick)
- 1975: Cash - The unstoppable career of Private Ass (Whiffs)
- 1975: I want, I want ... maybe? (I Will ... I Will ... For Now)
- 1976: Panache (TV movie)
- 1978: Convoy
- 1979: The Final Countdown (The Final Countdown)
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 693.
Web links
- Fernando Carrere in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual proof
- ↑ The often given year of birth 1910 is incorrect. 1909 is given by both Kay Weniger's Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films and the Social Security Death Index.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carrere, Fernando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican-American film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico City , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1998 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , United States |