John DeCuir junior

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John DeCuir junior , mostly John DeCuir jr. (Born August 4, 1941 in Burbank , California , United States ) is an American film architect and company manager.

Life

The son of the multi-award-winning film architect John DeCuir graduated from USC in Los Angeles with a degree in architecture in 1965 and made contact with the film industry through his father while he was still a student. For example, at the beginning of the 1960s he worked as an illustrator at his father's side in Rome on the lavish " Cleopatra " film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Elizabeth Taylor and in 1965/66, also in Italy, on the crime comedy " See Venice - and inherit ... “from the same director. As early as 1964, DeCuir junior assisted DeCuir senior in the gorgeous Michelangelo film Carol Reeds . Rex Harrison played one of the leading male roles in all three multi-million dollar large-scale productions .

In 1966, John DeCuir Jr. for two years with the US Coast Guard (last rank: Lt. Commander), in 1968 the Walt Disney Co. brought him as a project designer for Disney World . In 1972 John De Cuir jr. as Director of Design for Six Flags Corp. from 1974 onwards he worked again as a project designer for five years, this time at Epcot . 1980 - in the meantime DeCuir had established himself as chief architect for the cinema - he moved as president to the head of his own company, the John F. De Cuir jr. Design Consultants Inc., since 1987 he has been President of Cinematix.

John DeCuir Jr. only worked sporadically as a film architect, initially, from 1979 to 1985, several times at the side of his father. Since 1993 he has almost only designed the structures for television productions or films that appear directly as videos. His managerial work always took precedence over this practical work for the cinema. In 1971 he was responsible for the Oscar award ceremony as the scenographer, and also designed the decorations for one or the other television production such as the Frank Sinatra special "Old Blue Eyes is Back" and the entertainment productions' Double Switch ' and' Earth * Star Voyager ' .

Filmography

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 2001. Edit. Dir .: Tracy Stevens. Quigley Publishing Co., La Jolla (Cal.) 2001. p. 131

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personal data
SURNAME DeCuir, John Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeCuir, John Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect and company manager
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Burbank , California , United States