Robert M. Haas
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)
- 1920: The Copperhead
- 1920: In the Talons of Satan (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- 1921: The Gilded Lily
- 1921: Footlights
- 1921: For ever ... (Forever)
- 1923: The Lost Mother (Fury)
- 1923: The White Sister (The White Sister)
- 1924: The Terror Carnival (Romola)
- 1924: Sackcloth and Scarlet
- 1926: The Reckless Lady
- 1926: The Dancer of Paris
- 1929: She Goes to War
- 1930: Hell Harbor
- 1931: Mary Ann won (Merely Mary Ann)
- 1932: Crooner
- 1932: Silver Dollar
- 1932: A thief with class (Jewel Robbery)
- 1933: Frisco Jenny
- 1933: Employees' Entrance
- 1933: The Little Giant
- 1933: The Man with the Camera (Picture Snatcher)
- 1933: Lost in New York (Bureau of the Missing Persons)
- 1933: I Loved a Woman
- 1933: The Womanizer (Lady Killer)
- 1934: Hi Nellie!
- 1934: A Modern Hero
- 1934: The Key
- 1934: Sweet Adeline
- 1934: Living on Velvet
- 1935: Oil for the Lamps of China
- 1935: Ring three times ... love once (Page Miss Glory)
- 1935: Affair (The Goose and the Gander)
- 1935: Haunted Women (I Found Stella Parish)
- 1935: The Jazz Cadet (Shipmates Forever)
- 1935: Louis Pasteur (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
- 1936: Flaming nights (Another Dawn)
- 1936: Secret Society Black Legion (Black Legion)
- 1937: With an iron fist (The Prince and the Pauper)
- 1937: The King and the Chorus Girl
- 1937: A man as one wishes (The Perfect Specimen)
- 1937: The Third Degree (They Won't Forget)
- 1937: Hollywood Hotel
- 1938: Jezebel - The Malicious Lady (Jezebel)
- 1938: Garden of the Moon
- 1938: Chicago Angels with Dirty Faces
- 1939: Victim of a great love (Dark Victory)
- 1939: The Old Maid (The Old Maid)
- 1940: City for Conquest
- 1940: Four Mothers
- 1941: Most Beautiful in Town (The Strawberry Blonde)
- 1941: Dive Bomber
- 1941: The Man Who Came to Dinner
- 1941: The Maltese Falcon (The Maltese Falcon)
- 1942: I want to live my life (In This Our Life)
- 1942: Juke Box Fever (Juke Girl)
- 1942: The Gaylords (The Gay Sisters)
- 1942: Journey from the Past (Now, Voyager)
- 1942: Adventure in Panama (Across the Pacific)
- 1942: Rising in Trollness (Edge of Darkness)
- 1943: On my word of honor (Uncertain Glory)
- 1944: The Life of Mrs. Skeffington (Mr. Skeffington)
- 1944: Janie
- 1945: A Roughly Speaking Woman
- 1946: devotion
- 1946: The Big Lie (A Stolen Life)
- 1946: Our Life with Father
- 1947: My Girl Tisa
- 1947: The Voice of the Turtle
- 1948: Silent Lips (Johnny Belinda)
- 1948: Beyond the Forest (Beyond the Forest)
- 1948: John Loves Mary
- 1948: My Dream Is Yours
- 1949: The Sinful City (Come to the Stable)
- 1949: In the pay of Satan (The Damned Do not Cry)
- 1950: The Glass Menagerie (The Glass Menagerie)
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.
Web links
- Robert M. Haas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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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 |