Robert M. Haas

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Robert M. Haas (born January 3, 1889 in Newark , New Jersey , † December 17, 1962 in Costa Mesa , California ) was an American film architect with a remarkable career at Warner Bros. in the 1930s and 1940s.

Life

Robert M. Haas had studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and had worked as a freelance architect from 1912 before joining the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation as artistic director in 1920 . With his decorations for the first significant film adaptation of the horror literature classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Haas got an interesting assignment in his first year at work. Later (1923/24) his collaboration with the director Henry King was particularly fruitful.

Active for Warner Bros. since 1929, Robert Haas was only able to get worthwhile orders from the mid-1930s, initially as a designer for the films Mervyn Le Roys , later often for various Bette Davis star vehicles such as Jezebel - The Malicious Lady , Victim of a great love and journey from the past . With his sober decorations for the cult thriller Die Spur des Falken , Haas contributed to the launch of film noir in 1941 . In 1948 and 1949 he received an Oscar nomination for his work on the family comedy Our Life with Father and on the melodrama Silent Lips . After the decoration drafts for the sensitive film adaptation of Tennessee Williams ' Die Glasmenagerie with Kirk Douglas and Jane Wyman , Haas withdrew from the cinema in 1950.

Filmography (selection)

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 466.

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personal data
SURNAME Haas, Robert M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey , USA
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1962
Place of death Costa Mesa , California , USA