John B. Goodman

John Bartlett Goodman (born August 15, 1901 in Denver , Colorado , † June 30, 1991 in Los Angeles County , California ) was an American art director and production designer who received the Oscar for best production design at the 1944 Academy Awards .

biography

Goodman started at Where's Madeleine F.'s Child in 1934 ? as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry and was involved in the production of over 200 films by the end of his career in 1968.

At the Academy Awards in 1939 he and Hans Dreier were nominated for the first time for the Oscar for Best Production Design for If I Were King (also King of the Vagabonds , 1938). After another nomination in 1943 together with Jack Otterson , Russell A. Gausman and Edward R. Robinson for the black and white film Die Freibeuterin (The Spoilers, 1942), he received the Oscar for best production design in 1944 with Alexander Golitzen , RA Gausman and Ira Webb the color film Phantom of the Opera (1943).

Most recently, Goodman was nominated with Golitzen, Gausman and Webb at the Academy Awards in 1945 for the Oscar in the category of best production design in the color film The Climax (1944).

Other well-known films and television series with sets designed by him were Das ist vorschlag (1934), Ruler of the Seas (1939), This Woman Is Mine (1941), In the Shadow of Doubt (1943), Enterprise Donnerschlag (1943), The Merry Monahans (1944), Always Trouble with Harry (1955), The Regiment Idiot (1957), A Thousand Miles of Dust (1959 to 1965), Bonanza (1966 to 1967) and Hang Him Higher (1968). During his career he has worked with film directors such as Alfred Hitchcock , Ted Post , Ray Enright , George Marshall , Norman Z. McLeod , Frank Lloyd , Arthur Lubin and George Waggner .

Web links

• John B. Goodman in the Internet Movie Database (English)