Raymond Druart

Raymond Druart (born April 7, 1901 in Rimogne , Ardennes , France , † June 17, 1968 in France) was a French film architect .

Live and act

Born in the far north of France, Druart attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then worked as an outfitter for the stage and film. At the cinema he initially served as assistant to the veteran production designer Hugues Laurent , before he was allowed to work independently as Laurent's junior partner from 1937 until the outbreak of war in 1939. As a film architect, Druart designed the buildings for a number of secondary films until the late 1950s. Raymond Druart was only occasionally able to work with higher-class directors, including Marcel L'Herbier , Jacqueline Audry and Jean Grémillon . In 1957 he ended his film activities.

Filmography

• 1933: Trois balles dans la peau
• 1937: Sœurs d'armes
• 1937: Arsène Lupine detective
• 1938: La vierge folle
• 1939: Brazza ou l'épopée du Congo
• 1939: Les cinq sous de Lavarède
• 1940: Les surprises de la radio
• 1941: Cartacalha, pure des gitans
• 1942: L'honorable Cathérine
• 1942: Mademoiselle Béatrice
• 1943: Jeannou
• 1943: Adventure in Corsica ( L'île d'amour )
• 1944: The nightingale cage ( Le cage aux rossignols )
• 1945: Master Love
• 1948: L'ange rouge
• 1948: Gigi ( Gigi )
• 1948: The secret of Mayerling ( Le secret de Mayerling )
• 1949: Le martyr de Bougival
• 1949: Envoi de fleurs
• 1949: Agnes de rien
• 1950: The naive sinner ( Minne, l'ingénue libertine )
• 1950: Mammy
• 1950: Chéri
• 1951: Sinful Love ( L'étrange Madame X )
• 1951: Sérénade au bourreau
• 1951–54: Foreign Intrige (US television series made in Europe)
• 1952: Mon gosse de père
• 1954–55: Sherlock Holmes (US TV series)
• 1956: Le colonel est de la revue
• 1957: The coffin came in the mail ( Les violents )

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. 460.
• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers of Film. Vol. 2: France. Ed. by Alfred Krautz. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1983. p. 163 f.

Web links

• Raymond Druart in the Internet Movie Database (English)