Jack Mills

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Jack Mills († May 24, 2005 in Gloucester , Gloucestershire, England) was a production designer .

Life

Mills began his career in film crew in 1947 as production designer on several in the same year resulting fuzzy - Western . By the late 1940s he had worked on a dozen films. He stayed true to the western in the years that followed. He seldom worked on other genres, including Fritz Lang's crime film The Beast , the adventure film Clarence, the cross-eyed lion and the agent thriller Eisstation Zebra .

In 1966 Mills was for the Western That Was the Wild West by directors John Ford , Henry Hathaway , George Marshall and Richard Thorpe along with George W. Davis , William Ferrari , Addison Hehr , Henry Grace and Don Greenwood junior for the Oscar in the category Best Production design nominated, but this year the award went to the monumental film Cleopatra .

Mills also worked on numerous television productions between 1953 and 1967. Among other things, he worked on 17 episodes of the series police report , 18 episodes of Mickey Rooney Show and six episodes of Solo for Oncel 1967 he was in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie seen as an actor in a small supporting role.

Even in his last film work it was with Sam Peckinpah's billed is finally back to a Western.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Jack Mills in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mills, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Production designer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2005