Paul Detlefsen

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Paul Detlefsen (born October 3, 1899 in Copenhagen , Denmark , † August 1, 1986 in Encinitas , California ) was a Danish - American painter and special effects artist , the 1945 in the category "Best visual effects" for the biography The Adventure Mark Twains was nominated for an Oscar .

Detlefsen has made a name for himself as a visual artist , with a focus on painting, who preferred to paint cheerful and nostalgic scenes. His pictures are reproduced as prints and can also be found in calendars.

Life

Detlefsen was born in Denmark as the son of a doctor . Before moving to Hollywood as a cartoonist , he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago . After not having the desired success as an animator , he made sets for films and turned to special effects.

For his first film, the literary adaptation The Adventures of Mark Twain with Fredric March and Alexis Smith in the lead roles, in which he was responsible for the special effects, Detlefsen was in 1945 together with John Crouse (photographic effects) and Nathan Levinson (sound effects) for one Oscar nominated in the "Best Special Effects" category. However, the Oscar went to A. Arnold Gillespie , Donald Jahraus , Warren Newcombe and Douglas Shearer, and the war film Thirty Seconds About Tokyo .

The next film Detlefsen was involved in was Howard Hawks ' adventure film Have and Not Have (1944) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway . The collaboration with Hawks, Bogart and Bacall was repeated in the mystery crime film Dead Sleep tight (1946). He also met Bacall in the dramatic thriller Jagd im Nebel .

He worked with Bette Davis in the musical comedy Hollywood Canteen , as well as in the film dramas The Green Corn (1945) and The Big Lie (1946). With the director Raoul Walsh there was a collaboration in the fantasy music film The Angel with the Trumpet (1945), in which Alexis Smith was also cast, and in the action drama The Hero of Burma (1945). Errol Flynn starred in it; Detlefsen met him again in the romantic western Ein Mann der Tat (1945), and Alexis Smith was also part of the party again.

In the films The Ring of the Conspirators (1944, with Hedy Lamarr , Paul Henreid and Sydney Greenstreet ), Three Strangers (1946, with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) and A Lady for the Gangster (1946, with John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald ) each time Jean Negulesco directed, while Detlefsen was responsible for the special effects.

In the film noir crime drama Solange ein Herz Beats (1945) with Joan Crawford and Jack Carson , there was a collaboration with director Michael Curtiz , as well as in the dramatic music biography Day and Night I Think of You with Cary Grant and Alexis Smith.

The last of his 23 films in which Detlefsen participated, the drama Escape Me Never , again brought him together with Errol Flynn, who played the leading role. The film is a remake of Never Leave Me Again .

Detlefsen's involvement in films extended from 1944 to 1947, although he advised the Warner Brothers studio for more than 20 years. During this time his friendship with Walt Disney began . Detlefsen's main activity was painting pictures. These were lithographed, reproduced and used in many ways. His first calendar, published in 1951, covered the "good old days" and mainly focused on landscapes. According to an estimate by the UPI from 1969, 80 percent of all Americans had seen his work at some point.

Together with his wife Shelly Detlefsen moved to Encinitas in California in 1964, where he mainly devoted himself to painting until his death in 1986.

Filmography

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are other sources that indicate Detlefsen's year of birth as 1900 and his place of birth as Chicago, e.g. Paul Detlefsen at rogallery.com (English)
  2. ↑ Paul Detlefsen (some of his pictures) at etsy.com
  3. ↑ a b Artist brushing up on future In: Rome News-Tribune, June 29, 1969 (English). Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Paul Detlefsen biography at askart.com (English), accessed on February 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Horse & Buggy Paul Detlefsen at examiner.com (English), accessed on February 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ The 17th Academy Awards | 1945 at oscars.org (English)
  7. ↑ Paul Detlefsen at bigredtoybox.com (English), accessed on February 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Detlefsen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-American painter and special effects artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1986
Place of death Encinitas , California