Louis Mesenkop

Louis Mesenkop (born February 6, 1903 in Illinois , † February 19, 1974 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film technician and special effects artist who won two Academy Awards for best special effects and an honorary Oscar .

Life

Mesenkop began his career as a film technician and special effects artist in 1935 with the film Women - Moods and was involved in the production of twenty-five films over the next seven years. At the Academy Awards in 1939 , he and Gordon Jennings , Jan Domela , Devereaux Jennings , Irmin Roberts , Art Smith , Farciot Edouart , Loyal Griggs , Loren L. Ryder , Harry D. Mills and Walter Oberst received an honorary Oscar “for outstanding services in development of special photographic and sound effects in the film Pirates in Alaska produced by Paramount Pictures " (" for outstanding achievements in creating special photographic and sound effects in the Paramount production Spawn of the North " ).

At the 1942 Academy Awards , he won the Oscar for best special effects with Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings for I Wanted Wings (1941) by Mitchell Leisen with Ray Milland , William Holden and Wayne Morris in the leading roles , and was for the Oscar nominated in this category with Edouart and Jennings for Aloma, the daughter of the South Seas (1941) by Alfred Santell with Dorothy Lamour , Jon Hall and Phillip Reed .

In 1943 he won another Oscar with Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira for the best special effects, namely for Pirates in the Caribbean Sea (1942) by Cecil B. DeMille with the leading actors Ray Milland, John Wayne and Paulette Goddard .

After a break of almost fifteen years, he worked as a senior sound engineer in 1956 in the production of the monumental film The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille .

1935: Women's Whims ( The Bride Comes Home )

1937: Angel

personal data
SURNAME	Mesenkop, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American film technician and special effects artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Illinois
DATE OF DEATH	19th February 1974
Place of death	Los Angeles , California