George Sawley

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George E. Sawley (born June 18, 1903 in Parsons , Kansas , † April 26, 1967 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director and production designer who was twice nominated for the Oscar for best production design.

Life

Sawley began his career as an art director and production designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1927 in films such as Streets of Shanghai and Enchanted Island, and until 1962 worked on the staging of nearly seventy films and episodes of television series .

At the Academy Awards in 1943 he was nominated together with Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson for the first time for the Oscar for the best production design and that for the color film Pirates in the Caribbean Sea (1942), which was directed by Cecil B. DeMille with Ray Milland , John Wayne and Paulette Goddard in the lead roles . He received another Oscar nomination in this category in 1951 with Ernst Fegté for the color film Endstation Mond (1950), a science fiction film by Irving Pichel with the largely unknown actors John Archer , Warner Anderson and Tom Powers .

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SURNAME Sawley, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sawley, George E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Parsons , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1967
Place of death Los Angeles , California