Horace Jackson
Horace Atherton Jackson (born March 29, 1898 in Venice , Illinois , † January 26, 1952 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director and screenwriter .
Life
After the early death of his father in 1903, he and his mother moved to Los Angeles around 1910 , where he worked as an architect in the 1920s .
He first worked as an art director in the Hollywood film industry and was involved in the creation of a film for the first time in the silent film The Drums of Jeopardy (1923). From the end of the 1920s he worked mainly as a screenwriter, as he did for Strange Cargo in 1929, and wrote the templates and scripts for nearly 30 films.
For Holiday (1930) he was nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay . Other films in which he worked as an author were, This Thing Called Love (1929), The Animal Kingdom (1932) and Suzy (1936) and worked there with film directors such as Paul L. Stein , Edward H. Griffith and George Fitzmaurice together . In 1932 he worked as a director himself and directed the film Um eine Fürstenkrone .
For the silent film star Colleen Moore created Jackson, who died in a car accident, in 1928 the floor plan and layout for their legendary doll's house that Colleen Moore's Dollhouse , the 500,000 US dollar cost and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is issued.
Filmography (selection)
- 1930: Holiday
- 1931: The Common Law
- 1932: The Animal Kingdom
- 1935: No More Ladies
- 1936: Suzy
Web links
- Horace Jackson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jackson, Horace |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jackson, Horace Atherton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1952 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |