Hans O. Peters

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Hans Otto Theodor Peters (born May 17, 1894 in Hamburg , Germany ; † June 12, 1980 in Laguna Beach , Orange County , California ) was a German-American architect and film architect with a career in American film, one of the leading production designers at 20th Century Fox and MGM .

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Hans O. Peters had studied architecture in Germany. On March 27, 1923, he and his (since October 1919) wife Herta Maria, his sister, mother and Peters' daughter Anke, who was born in Hamburg in 1921, moved to the United States. In Pasadena , Peters intended to establish himself as an architect. There he had initially worked in the profession he had learned and in 1927 he became the father of a son named Detlef in Glendale .

The proximity to the film city of Los Angeles soon brought him to Hollywood . There he came to film at the age of 41. In the next three decades, Hans Peters took part in the construction of a large number of A-productions, including several Shirley Temple box office hits such as Heidi and (after the war) well-designed screen classics such as The Player , Scaramouche, the Gallant Marquis and in the late 1930s The Knights of the Round Table .

Peters, who received American citizenship on November 9, 1938, was nominated five times for an Oscar . In the largely film-free period from 1938 to 1940, Peters stayed temporarily in Norway . He ended this stay with the outbreak of World War II and returned to the United States in early October 1939.

Between 1957 and 1959, Peters designed the buildings for three television series.

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  1. ↑ Dates of life and place of birth according to the Kay Less film archive . Place of death Laguna Beach according to the Social Security Death Index or Orange County according to the California Death Index. The IMDb data for Peters - July 23, 1894 and September 29, 1976 - including the place of birth and death “London” are completely wrong.
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