Frank Paul Sylos

Frank Paul Sylos , also known as Frank Sylos and F. Paul Sylos , (born October 12, 1900 in New York City , United States , † April 16, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film architect who in barely For four decades he has been responsible for setting the scenes for around 200 Hollywood films.

Life

Born in Brooklyn , New York , Frank Sylos attended Yale University and received his artistic training in the fields of art and graphics. As a commercial artist, he designed the covers of Liberty magazine and some sheets of Macfadden Publications after graduating. Very late, not until 1935, Sylos came across film architecture in Hollywood and designed the decorations for cheap films of all kinds for initially small production companies.

Until 1972, Sylos mainly remained the set builder for B-film productions ; in the course of the 1940s, orders for the optical design of higher budget and more ambitious films were added. These include, above all, two adaptations of Somerset Maugham's models : The Tahitian Obsessed from 1942 and The Bel Ami's Private Affaires from 1946, both productions by Albert Lewin and each with George Sanders in the lead role. In 1948 Sylos was also responsible for the buildings for Max Ophüls ' gloomy married drama Gefangen . His decorations for the hypnosis thriller Im Dunkel der Nacht (1956) could not hide “borrowings from German film expressionism of the 1920s”.

In later years, the film architect worked on westerns and melodramas, crime thrillers and comedies, revenge thrillers as well as war films and horror stories. In 1972 Frank Sylos designed his last film structures, after which he retired into private life. Sylos has also equipped episodes of individual television series or series from time to time, from 1954 to 1960 he was involved as a production designer in 40 episodes of the popular Loretta Young Show ; for one of the episodes he received a 1959 Primetime Emmy nomination .

Filmography

as chief architect only for cinema films

• 1935: Just My Luck
• 1936: The Glory Trail
• 1936: Daniel Boone
• 1936: Yellow Cargo
• 1937: Navy Spy
• 1937: The Gold Racket
• 1937: Hollywood Cowboy
• 1937: Windjammer
• 1937: Bank alarm
• 1938: Spirit of Youth
• 1938: Prison Train
• 1938: King of the Sierras
• 1938: Sunset Murder Case
• 1939: The Mad Empress
• 1939: La inmaculada
• 1941: South of Panama
• 1941: Power Dive
• 1941: Paper Bullets
• 1941: I Was a Criminal
• 1942: Torpedo Boat
• 1942: Isle of Missing Men
• 1942: Wildcat
• 1942: The Possession of Tahiti ( The Moon and Sixpence )
• 1942: Wrecking Crew
• 1943: Submarine Alert
• 1943: Alaska Highway
• 1943: Corregidor
• 1943: Hi Diddle Diddle
• 1944: Timber Queen
• 1944: The Navy Way
• 1944: Double Exposure
• 1945: The Great Flamarion
• 1945: High Powered
• 1945: Hunt for Dillinger ( Dillinger )
• 1945: Jealousy
• 1946: Tokyo Rose
• 1946: Fear
• 1946: The tire of death ( Suspense )
• 1946: An elegant crook ( A Scandal in Paris )
• 1946: Swamp Fire
• 1946: Big Town
• 1947: The Private Affairs of Bel Ami ( The Private Affairs of Bel Ami )
• 1947: Killer Dill
• 1947: Adventure Island
• 1947: Warning, Coast Police ( Dragnet )
• 1948: The Avenger of Death Gorge ( Albuquerque )
• 1948: Shaggy
• 1948: Bungalow 13
• 1948: capturing ( Caught )
• 1949: Grand Canyon
• 1949: Red Light ( Red Light )
• 1949: Cowboy Gangster ( Tough Assignment )
• 1949: The Baron of Arizona ( Baron of Arizona )
• 1949: The Return of Jesse James
• 1950: Motor Patrol
• 1950: Gangsters of Chicago ( Hi-Jacked )
• 1950: Second Chance
• 1951: The Bride of the Gorilla ( Bride of the Gorilla )
• 1951: Drum of the Wild ( Savage Drums )
• 1951: Deadly Arrows ( Little Big Horn )
• 1951: ... now the accounts are settled ( The Bushwackers )
• 1951: Girl in intelligence ( FBI Girl )
• 1952: Great Texas Girls ( Outlaw Women )
• 1952: The Gate to Hell ( Hellgate )
• 1953: Sins of Jezebel
• 1953: Taxi 539 doesn't respond ( 99 River Street )
• 1953: Trail to the Desert ( The Steel Lady )
• 1954: The Mad Magician ( The Mad Magician )
• 1954: Caravan westward ( Southwest Passage )
• 1954: The Assassin ( Suddenly )
• 1954: Betrayal of the Khyber Pass ( Khyber Patrol )
• 1955: Undefeated ( Top Gun )
• 1956: In the Dark of the Night ( Nightmare )
• 1956: The Boss
• 1957: Day without End (Men in War)
• 1957: Get out at 43,000! ( Bail Out at 43,000 )
• 1961: The Sergeant Was a Lady
• 1963: The Madman of Mandoras
• 1964: Arizona uprising ( Apache Rifles )
• 1965: Decision at the Big Horn ( The Great Sioux Massacre )
• 1965: Completely wrongly connected ( Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number? )
• 1966: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
• 1966: Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter
• 1967: The Violent Ones
• 1968: Powder and Lead ( Heaven With a Gun )
• 1969: Dead Bees Don't Sing ( Flare Up )
• 1970: The Christine Jorgenson Story
• 1971: Honky
• 1972: Horror Attack ( Necromancy )
• 1972: Vengeance is mine ( Rage )
• 1973: Hex - Dimensions of Fear ( Hex )

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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 579.

Web link

• Frank Paul Sylos in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 580.