Perry Ferguson (film architect, 1901)
Perry F. Ferguson (born November 13, 1901 in Fort Worth , Texas , † December 27, 1963 in Los Angeles ) was an American film set designer .
Life
Perry Ferguson began his career as a production designer in Hollywood in 1933 , where he was signed to RKO Pictures and proved to be very versatile. It was used in comedies such as Leopards You Don't Kiss (1938), the adventure film Uprising in Sidi Hakim (1939) and in the Astaire - Rogers film musical The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). Over the years he has also worked with a number of well-known directors including Howard Hawks , Orson Welles , Sam Wood , William Wyler and Alfred Hitchcock. At the Academy Awards in 1937 he was nominated for the first time in the category Best Production Design for the crime film Winterset . He received other nominations for Welles' cinematic milestone Citizen Kane (1941) and Sam Wood's athlete biography The Big Throw (1942), in which Gary Cooper played the leading role. From the mid-1950s, Ferguson was mainly active for American television.
With his wife Mary J. he had the son of the same name Perry , who also took up the profession of film architect and production designer. Ferguson died in Los Angeles in 1963 at the age of 62 . His grave is in Hollywood Forever Cemetery . In 2003 the United States Postal Service and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences published ten stamps in the series "American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes". One of these stamps shows Perry Ferguson as the production designer.
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: Alice Adams
- 1935: Annie Oakley
- 1936: A rebellious girl ( A Woman Rebels )
- 1936: winter set
- 1938: You don't kiss leopards ( Bringing up Baby )
- 1939: Uprising in Sidi Hakim ( Gunga Din )
- 1939: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
- 1939: In Name Only ( In Name Only )
- 1941: Citizen Kane
- 1941: The Strange Taming of the Gangster Bride Sugarpuss ( Ball of Fire )
- 1942: Pride of the Yankees ( The Pride of the Yankees )
- 1943: Outlaw ( The Outlaw )
- 1943: The North Star
- 1944: Up in Arms
- 1944: Such a Papa ( Casanova Brown )
- 1945: The Miracle Man ( Wonder Man )
- 1945: The Stranger ( The Stranger )
- 1946: The hero of the day ( The Kid from Brooklyn )
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives ( The Best Years of Our Lives )
- 1947: The Double Life of Walter Mitty ( The Secret Life of Walter Mitty )
- 1947: Desert Fury - love wins ( Desert Fury )
- 1947: Every Woman Needs an Angel ( The Bishop's Wife )
- 1948: Cocktail for a corpse ( Rope )
- 1948: The daring rescue of the gangster bride Honey Swanson ( A Song Is Born )
- 1952: The Big Sky - The Big Sky ( The Big Sky )
- 1964: The Black Circle ( Dead Ringer )
Awards
- 1937: Oscar nomination for Best Production Design for Winter Set
- 1942: Oscar nomination for Best Production Design for Citizen Kane together with Van Nest Polglase , A. Roland Fields and Darrell Silvera
- 1943: Oscar nomination for Best Production Design for The Big Throw with Howard Bristol
- 1944: Oscar nomination for Best Production Design for The North Star with Howard Bristol
- 1945: Oscar nomination in the category Best Production Design for So Ein Papa together with Julia Heron
literature
- Kay Less : Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films , Volume 2, p. 649, Berlin 2001.
Web links
- Perry Ferguson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Perry Ferguson in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Colin Naylor: Contemporary Designers . St. James Press, 1990, ISBN 0-912289-69-4 , p. 168.
- ↑ cf. wnsstamps.ch ( Memento from April 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferguson, Perry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferguson, Perry F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American production designer for a film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Worth , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1963 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |