Richard Pefferle

Richard "Dick" A. Pefferle (born January 5, 1905 in Sidney , Ohio ; † March 7, 1969 ) was an American production designer who was nominated six times for an Oscar in the category of best production design.

biography

Pefferle began his career as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry in the early 1940s and was involved for the first time in 1942 in the making of the films Cairo and Journey for Margaret by WS Van Dyke . In the course of his career he was involved in the creation of nearly 70 productions for cinema and television and was responsible for production design as set director since the early 1950s .

At the Academy Awards in 1945 he was nominated as Associate Set Decorator along with Cedric Gibbons , Daniel B. Cathcart and Edwin B. Willis for an Oscar for best production design in the color film The Caliph of Baghdad (1944) by William Dieterle . 1950 came together with Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith and Edwin B. Willis a nomination for the best Oscar in a black and white film for Madame Bovary and her lovers (1949) by Vincente Minnelli . At the following Academy Awards in 1951 he was nominated together with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse and Edwin B. Willis for the Oscar for best production design in the color film Duel in the Manage (Annie Get Your Gun, 1950) by George Sidney .

In 1958 he was nominated again for Die Girls (1957, Les Girls) by George Cukor together with William A. Horning , Gene Allen and Edwin B. Willis. Most recently he was nominated twice at the Academy Awards in 1963 , together with George W. Davis , Edward C. Carfagno and Henry Grace for the black-and-white film Time of Adjustment (1962) by George Roy Hill and also with the three others for the color film Die The Wonder World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) by Henry Levin and George Pal .

He was also set director for the films Scaramouche, The Gallant Marquis (1952) by George Sidney, The Glass Slipper (1955) by Charles Walters , Abduction (1956) by Alex Segal , The Upper Ten Thousand (1956) by C. Walters, Atlantis, the lost continent (1961) by G. Pal, The Price (1963) by Mark Robson , The Karate Killer (1967) by Barry Shear and Where were you when the lights went out? (1968) by Hy Averback .

In the late 1950s he also worked as a set director on television series such as Northwest Passage (1958 to 1959), Dr. Kildare (1965 to 1966), solo for ONCEL (1966 to 1967).

The last film he worked on was the horror comedy The Maltese Bippy (1969) directed by Norman Panama .

Web links

• Richard Pefferle in the Internet Movie Database (English)