Gilbert Courland

Gilbert Kurland (born November 28, 1904 in Minneapolis , † February 26, 1978 in Los Angeles ) was an American filmmaker.

Life

Gilbert Kurland's Hollywood career began with the introduction of talkies . He first worked as a music supervisor on the film Frankenstein in 1931 . In this position followed several works until the mid-1930s for Universal Pictures , which had focused on horror films . These include films like The Invisible Man , The Black Cat , The Werewolf of London, and The Raven , which are now considered classics. In about the same period he also worked on more than 60 films in the Sound Department. For the film Frankenstein's Bride (1935) he was nominated for an Oscar for best sound, but in 1936 Douglas Shearer had to admit defeat for Tolle Marietta . In the literature there is also some information that Kurland was nominated in 1935 for an Oscar for the best tone for Imitation of Life (1934). However, the official Academy Awards page lists Theodore Soderberg , then Sound Director of the Universal Studio Sound Department, as a nominee for the category.

At the end of the 1930s he changed both the subject and the studio and became an assistant director at MGM . For example, he was assistant director for Edward Sedgwick in Burn 'Em Up O'Connor in 1936 , supported S. Sylvan Simon in musicals, romantic comedies and melodramas, George B. Seitz , HC Potter , Robert B. Sinclair , Jacques Tourneur and Richard Thorpe in Tarzan's secret treasure . In 1942 he switched to production. First, he was manager . Here he was u. a. Involved in Edward Buzzell's The Omaha Trail in 1942 , but also in war propaganda films such as Salute to the Marines and Victor Fleming's Battle in the Clouds with Spencer Tracy (both 1943). His career was interrupted between 1943 and 1948. After a brief return to the film business between 1948 and 1950, his career was interrupted again until 1958. In 1958 he returned to Hollywood as a production manager. First work was Robert Wise's anti-war film U 23 - Tödliche Tiefen . Other important films included Delbert Mann's Separate from Table and Bed , John Huston's Unforgiven (1960), Richard Brooks ' Elmer Gantry , John Frankenheimer's The Young Wild (1961) and The Prisoner of Alcatraz (1962), J. Lee Thompson's Taras Bulba and, as a career graduation, Elliot Silverstein's A Man They Called Horse (1970). Kurland has acted in more than 100 films.

Filmography (selection)

Music supervisor

volume

Assistant director

Production Manager

Web links

Gilbert Kurland in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Compare Norbert Stresau : The Oscar. All award-winning films, directors and actors since 1929 , Heyne, 3rd edition, Munich 1996 (Heyne Filmbibliothek), ISBN 3-453-07872-1 , p. 104.
↑ See oscars.org

personal data
SURNAME	Courland, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minneapolis
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1978
Place of death	los Angeles

[1] Compare Norbert Stresau : The Oscar. All award-winning films, directors and actors since 1929 , Heyne, 3rd edition, Munich 1996 (Heyne Filmbibliothek), ISBN 3-453-07872-1 , p. 104.

[2] See oscars.org