Maurice Carter

Maurice George Carter (born April 24, 1913 in London , † April 2000 in Hurley, Berkshire ) was a British film architect , for over four decades one of the leading chief designers of English cinema.

Life

Carter had studied at the Royal Society of Art Masters and worked as an interior decorator before joining the film at the age of 21. After three years of assistant work at Islington Studios, he was brought in in 1937 as one of several assistant film architects for Alfred Hitchcock's spy thriller A Lady Vanishes. Until the middle of World War II, Carter continued to assist with some not insignificant productions, including Carol Reed's anti-Nazi drama Night Train to Munich and the historical material The Young Mr. Pitt . Until the end of the war, Carter was only responsible for another top production in English cinema, the costume drama The Lord in Gray .

In 1945 he became chief architect with sole responsibility. Carter's specialty were so-called 'period' fabrics, films with a historical, costumed and set background such as Lancelot, the daring knight , Becket , Genghis Khan and Queen for 1000 days .

Maurice Carter, who was nominated three times for an Oscar , was the founder of the British film architects' association, the Guild of Film Art Directors, and was also involved in the development of the British version of the rear projection. He lived in Buckinghamshire on the Thames and died in Berkshire.

Filmography (as chief architect)

• 1942: Miss London Ltd.
• 1942: The Man in Gray ( The Man in Gray )
• 1943: Dear Octopus
• 1943: Bees in Paradise
• 1944: Give Us the Moon
• 1946: The Root of All Evil ( The Root of All Evil )
• 1947: Gypsy blood ( Jassy )
• 1947: Snowbound
• 1948: Dance into the Abyss ( Good Time Girl )
• 1948: The Sinful Poet ( The Bad Lord Byron )
• 1948: Christoph Columbus ( Christopher Columbus )
• 1949: The Astonished Heart
• 1950: The Atomic Duck ( Mr. Drake's Duck )
• 1950: That's Life ( Trio )
• 1951: Serum 703 ( White Corridors )
• 1951: Dakapo ( Encore )
• 1951: Smuggler Princess ( Penny Princess )
• 1952: Does it have to be, Miss? ( Made in Heaven )
• 1952: Seconds of Desperate ( The Desperate Moment )
• 1953: A Day to Remember
• 1954: Demons of the South Seas ( The Seekers )
• 1955: After Paris with Love (To Paris with Love)
• 1955: ... but they are nice ( All for Mary )
• 1956: The Spanish Gardener ( The Spanish Gardener )
• 1956: Help! The doctor comes ( Doctor at Large )
• 1957: Dangerous Legacy ( Campbell's Kingdom )
• 1957: Children of the Street ( Violent Playground )
• 1957: ... because the wind cannot read ( The Wind Cannot Read )
• 1958: The Square Peg
• 1958: The 39 Steps ( The 39 Steps )
• 1959: Treppauf - Descending ( Upstairs and Downstairs )
• 1960: Love three times a day ( Doctor in Love )
• 1960: And tomorrow everything ( No Love for Johnnie )
• 1961: The stolen Million ( The Boy Who Stole a Million )
• 1961: The Whip ( The Frightened City )
• 1961: She has the last word ( A Pair of Briefs )
• 1961: Twen hit parade ( It's Trad, Dad! )
• 1962: Lancelot, the daring knight ( Lancelot and Guinevere )
• 1963: We show what we have ( The Beauty Jungle )
• 1963: Becket
• 1963: shots in Batasi ( Guns at Batasi )
• 1964: Genghis Khan ( Genghis Khan )
• 1966: The Gentleman Zinker ( Kaleidoscope )
• 1966: The Quiller Memorandum - Risk from the darkness ( The Quiller Memorandum )
• 1966: Donegal, King of the Rebels ( The Fighting Prince of Donegal )
• 1966: Fire Dragon ( Fathom )
• 1967: Robin Hood, the freedom hero ( A Challenge of Robin Hood )
• 1968: Battle of Britain ( Battle of Britain )
• 1969: Queen for 1000 Days ( Anne of the Thousand Days )
• 1970: John Christie - the strangler of London ( Ten Rillington Place )
• 1970: They mess everything up ( Villain )
• 1971: He who lives last lives best ( Innocent Bystanders )
• 1971: The Frog ( Psychomania )
• 1972: fear is the key ( Fear is the Key )
• 1972: The Night of the Laughing Corpses ( The House in Nightmare Park )
• 1973: Murder in the Chamber of Horrors ( From Beyond the Grave )
• 1974: Caprona - The forgotten land ( The Land That Time Forgot )
• 1975: The Sixth Continent ( At the Earth's Core )
• 1976: Caprona Part 2 ( The People That Time Forgot )
• 1978: The Great Train Robbery ( The First Great Train Robbery )
• 1979: North Sea Hijack ( North Sea Hijack )

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 8.

Web links

• Maurice Carter at the Internet Movie Database (English)