Roger K. Furse

Roger Kemble Furse (born September 11, 1903 in Ightham , England , † August 19, 1972 ) was a British costume and set designer who received the Oscar for best costume design as well as for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1949 .

biography

The son of the later Lieutenant General Sir William Furse studied after attending Eton College at the Slade School of Fine Art in London .

began in the mid- 1940s as a costume and set designer for film productions and, after his debut in the film adaptation of Heinrich V (1944) by Laurence Olivier, he helped create around a dozen films.

In 1949 he received the Oscar in these categories for both best costume design and best production design (here together with Carmen Dillon ) in Laurence Olivier's black and white film Hamlet (1948) .

Other films with his participation were Ivanhoe - The Black Knight (1952) by Richard Thorpe , Richard III. (1955) by L. Olivier and The Prince and the Dancer (1957) by L. Olivier.

For the production design for the Broadway - staging of Duel of Angels , he was also in 1961 for the Tony Award nominated for the best set design.

His work with Laurence Olivier also continued in the theater , for example in Olivier's production of John Ford's drama The Broken Heart at the Festival Theater in Chichester on July 9, 1963 with Olivier, Robert Lang , John Neville , Joan Greenwood , Keith Michell , Peter Woodthorpe , Rosemary Harris , Fay Compton and Alan Howard .

His wife Margaret Furse also received the Oscar for best costume design in 1970 and has also been nominated for it several times. The portrait of her painted by Furse is part of the permanent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London .

His younger sister was the film and theater actress Judith Furse .

Web links

• Roger K. Furse in the Internet Movie Database (English)