Roger Heman senior

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Roger Heman senior (born February 27, 1898 in Kentucky , † March 14, 1969 in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) , California ) was an American film technician who won an Oscar in the category "Best." At the Academy Awards in 1944 together with Fred Sersen visual effects ” in the drama Crash Dive . At the Academy Awards in 1950 , he and WD Flick were again awarded an Oscar in the "Best Sound" category for the film The Commander ( Twelve O'Clock High ).

biography

Roger Heman, who was born in the Kentucky hills in 1898, took up a job as a furniture driver at the age of 17. One of his trips took him to a studio in Boyle Heights, California. There he stood out for his education and his good looks and got a job as an assistant to the prop master. Soon he was also working for the director John H. Collins and his wife at the time, the silent film actress Viola Dana . In 1918 he got a small role as a cowboy in the film The Winding Trail . In 1921 he was as a production assistant in the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse used) in a supporting role he also performed as a Gaucho on. After Mary Pickford founded the new studio United Artists , among others , Heman worked there on various films by the actress. In the film drama Stella Dallas (1925) he took the position of assistant director and befriended Douglas Fairbanks junior while filming . In Fairbank's 1929 film Eternal Love , Heman was again an assistant director.

After Heman was hired at 20th Century Fox , where he was trusted by film producer Darryl F. Zanuck , he spent the rest of his working life there. Heman was mainly responsible for special effects in films and worked closely with Fred Sersen there . For the romance Night Over India ( The Rains Came ), published in 1939 , Sersen was awarded an Oscar. Heman was jointly responsible for the sound of this film. Already for the film The Black Swan ( The Black Swan ) Heman and Sersen were with George Leverett nominated in the category "Best Special Effects" for an Oscar, but had farciot edouart , Gordon Jennings , William L. Pereira and Louis Mesenkop precedence with the Film left to pirates in the Caribbean Sea ( Reap the Wild Wind ). For the film Crash Dive , Heman worked again with Fred Sersen in 1943. Both were awarded an Oscar for “Best Visual Effects” . Another Oscar nomination for Heman and Sersen for "Best Visual Effects" in the film Wilson took place in 1945. However, the Oscar went to A. Arnold Gillespie , Donald Year in , Warren Newcombe , Douglas Shearer and the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ). In 1946 Heman, Sersen, Sol Halperin and Harry M. Leonard were again nominated for the film Der Held von Burma ( Objective, Burma! ) In the category “Best Visual Effects”, but the Oscar went to John P. Fulton and Arthur Johns and the film the miracle man ( wonder man ). Together with Ralph Hammeras , Edward Snyder and Sersen, Heman was again nominated for an Oscar in 1949 for "Best Visual Effects" in the film Deep Waters , which was awarded to Paul Eagler , J. McMillan Johnson , Russell Shearman, Clarence Slifer , Charles L. Freeman and James G. Stewart and the film Jenny ( Portrait of Jennie ) went. In 1950, Heman won the Oscar again with WD Flick. Both were nominated in the “Best Sound” category for the war film Der Kommandeur . All About Eve ( All About Eve , 1950) was able to win another film studio of the six coveted Oscars. Heman was jointly responsible for the sound in the film. Zanuck was impressed by Heman efforts, the surround sound effects for the film The Day the Earth Stood Still ( The Day the Earth Stood Still ) to improve as well as for his help concerning the development of CinemaScope .

Heman was married to Jesse, the daughter of a prominent banker, the love of his life , as he professed. The couple had a son, Roger , who was introduced by his father at a young age in the film world and the 1975 Oscar-winning film Jaws participated. Heman suffered a devastating stroke in 1960 and was unable to work. He died in 1969 in the Woodland Hills Motion Picture House that belonged to close friends Mary Pickford and Jean Hersholt .

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personal data
SURNAME Heman, Roger senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film technician and special effects artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1969
Place of death Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) , California