Joseph Kish

Joseph Kish (born June 14, 1899 in Sombor , Austria-Hungary , † March 14, 1969 in North Hollywood , Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director and production designer , who won the Oscar for best production design at the 1966 Academy Awards received.

Life

Kish began his career as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1942 with the film Lucky Legs and was subsequently involved in the equipment of more than 130 films.

Kish was nominated for an Oscar for the best production design for the first time at the Academy Awards in 1945 with Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher, namely for the black and white film Address Unknown (1944). Further nominations in this category followed in 1949 with Richard Day and Casey Roberts for the color film Johanna von Orleans (1948), in 1960 with Lyle R. Wheeler , Franz Bachelin , Herman A. Blumenthal and Walter M. Scott for the color film The Journey to the Center of the Erde (1959) and 1966 with Hal Pereira , Jack Poplin and Robert R. Benton for the black and white film Voice on the Telephone (The Slender Thread, 1965).

Also in 1966 he finally received his only Oscar with Robert Clatworthy for best production design in the black and white film The Ship of Fools (1965).

Other films in which Kish created the set design were Der Teufelshauptmann (1949), Planet des Horens , Die Demonischen (1956), Escape in Chains (1958), A total, totally crazy world (1963) and A daredevil daredevil (1964) . He has worked with film directors such as John Ford , Don Siegel , Stanley Kramer , Jack Arnold , William Cameron Menzies , Victor Fleming , Henry Levin and Sydney Pollack throughout his career .

Web links

• Joseph Kish in the Internet Movie Database (English)