John Blezard

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John H. Blezard (* 1927 in Kendal , United Kingdom ) is a now inactive British film architect and painter .

Live and act

Born in the north of England, Blezard, the son of a landscape gardener, was trained as an architect at the School of Building in Brixton (London) . At the theater school of the Old Vic Theater in London , he received further training in stage design. Blezard remained connected to the theater well into the 1950s. It was only after he had worked as an architect's assistant on the long-standing hit series Robin Hood that Bezard finally switched to television and, in 1959, to cinema. There he made his debut in the horror story City of the Dead . He then specialized first in comedies, later also in dramatic and action-packed material.

Blezard performed his most important work in 1974 with the "claustrophobic concentration camp film 'The Refuge', where he was able to use the most spartan means to effectively make the oppression of persecution visible". After the end of his film career in the mid-1990s, John Blezard retired to Kingsdown in the southern English county of Kent and devoted himself to his great love, painting. Since then, even at the age of over 80, he has been contributing his own work to exhibitions at the South East Open Studios year after year - especially landscapes and lake pictures in watercolors and acrylic.

Filmography

as a production designer for films, unless otherwise stated

  • 1957: The Painter of Florence ( Sword of Freedom , TV series)
  • 1959: The Four Just Men (TV series)
  • 1959: City of the Dead ( City of the Dead )
  • 1959: Foxhole in Cairo
  • 1960: The sinister hands of Dr. Orlak ( The Hands of Orlac )
  • 1960: Three on a Spree
  • 1961: Das Schlitzohr ( On the Fiddle )
  • 1962: One Hundred Hours of Fear ( Mix Me a Person )
  • 1962: Reach for Glory
  • 1963: The career of Chick B. ( The Comedy Man )
  • 1964: First Men in the Moon ( First Men in the Moon )
  • 1964: Who Was Maddox?
  • 1965: L - Der Lautlose ( The Liquidator )
  • 1965: A touch of Riviera ( That Riviera Touch )
  • 1966: Mini Skirt and Crown Jewels ( The Jokers )
  • 1967: The Magnificent Two
  • 1967: Geheimauftrag K ( Assignment K )
  • 1968: Just over a corpse ( Only When I Larf )
  • 1968: Before winter comes ( Before Winter Comes )
  • 1969: Carry On Again Doctor ( Carry On Again Doctor )
  • 1970: Hoffman
  • 1970: When dinosaurs ruled the earth
  • 1972–74: Black Beauty (TV series)
  • 1974: The Sanctuary ( The Hiding Place )
  • 1976: The Tiger from Taipei ( The Amsterdam Kill )
  • 1978: Firepower ( Firepower )
  • 1979: Dick Turpin (TV series)
  • 1980: Nijinsky
  • 1982: The infamous Lady ( The Wicked Lady )
  • 1985: The Twin Sisters ( Deceptions , TV movie)
  • 1986: Peter the Great (TV multi-part)
  • 1987 rendezvous with a body ( Appointment With Death )
  • 1989: Bullseye - The crazy diamond coup ( Bullseye !)
  • 1991: Alone Against the Wind ( One Against the Wind , TV movie)
  • 1993: Heidi (TV movie)
  • 1994: The Prince and the whipping boy ( Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy )

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 423.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 423.

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personal data
SURNAME Blezard, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blezard, John H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kendal , UK