Ralph Brinton
William Ralph Brinton (born May 26, 1895 in London-Kensington , Great Britain; † July 1975 ibid) was a British film architect with some remarkable achievements in high-class, socially ambitious entertainment film.
Life
Born in the London borough of Kensington, William Ralph Brinton served in the Royal Navy during the First World War . After his release into civilian life, he completed an architectural training between 1922 and 1927. He then worked as an architect.
It wasn't until the beginning of the 1930s that Brinton joined the film. At the age of 40 he became chief architect there. Brinton designed both the sets for the first British technicolor film, the rather pompous love story " Gypsy Princess ", and the decorations for Carol Reed's award-winning IRA drama Expelled . In the fall of 1954 he designed the film structures for John Huston's 1956 film adaptation of the novel Moby Dick with Gregory Peck .
With his designs for the precisely observing climber psychogram The Way Up , Brinton was involved in the 1958 film that initiated a new, socially realistic style of staging in British cinema. Thereupon other representatives of these neo-Roman cinemas, influenced by the French Nouvelle Vague , hired him : these were directors who counted themselves among the innovators, the 'young savages' of the British film industry, such as Tony Richardson . Brinton created the films for The Comedian , Bitter Honey , The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows for him . The decorations for the latter film earned him an Oscar nomination. After his drafts for the dancer biography " Isadora ", the staging of another representative of the British New Wave cinema, Karel Reisz , the 72-year-old Brinton withdrew from the film business.
Ralph Brinton died in the third quarter of 1975, a few weeks after his 80th birthday, in his home district of London.
Filmography
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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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 560.
Web links
- Ralph Brinton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Brinton, Ralph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brinton, William Ralph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London Kensington , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1975 |
| Place of death | London Kensington , UK |