Roland Anderson

Roland Rupert Anderson (born November 18, 1903 in Boston , Massachusetts , † October 29, 1989 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American production designer and the one who was nominated for the Oscar for best production design most often without ever this award to obtain.

biography

Anderson began his career as a production designer in 1932 with the creation of Frank Borzage's In Another Land, and has worked in over 90 film productions during his 37-year career .

At the Academy Awards in 1934 he received his first of fifteen Academy Award nominations, together with Hans Dreier for the production design for In Another Land . Other joint Oscar nominations with Dreier followed in 1936 for Bengali (1935), in 1938 for Shipwreck of Souls (Souls at Sea, 1937) and in 1941 for the color film Die Scharlachroten Reiter (1940). At the Academy Awards in 1943 he was nominated with Dreier and George Sawley both for the Oscar for the production design in the color film Pirates in the Caribbean Sea (1942) and with Dreier and Sam Comer for the black and white film Liebling, for dictation (Take a Letter, Darling, 1942).

At the Oscar ceremony in 1946 was carried out together with Dreier, Comer and Ray Moyer nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the black and white film love letters (Love Letters, 1945). After another nomination in 1953 with Hal Pereira and Emile Kuri for the black and white film Carrie (1952), he was nominated twice at the Academy Awards in 1955 , on the one hand together with Pereira, Comer and Moyer for the color film Red Garters (1954), on the other hand with Pereira, Comer and Grace Gregory for the black and white film A Country Girl (1954).

1961 Anderson was with Pereira, Lake and Arrigo Breschi for the production design in the color film, It Started in Naples (It Started in Naples, 1960) once again nominated for an Oscar as with the Oscars in 1962 with Pereira, Lake and Moyer for the color film Breakfast at Tiffany (1961). After a renewed nomination with Pereira, Comer and Frank McKelvy for the Oscar for best production design in 1963 in It began in Rome (1962), he was last nominated twice again at the 1964 Academy Awards: Together with Pereira, Comer and James W. Payne for the color film , when my bedroom could speak (1963) as well as with Pereira, Lake and Grace Gregory for the black and white film in Love with the Proper stranger (Love with the Proper stranger, 1963).

Other well-known films with a production design designed by him include Music, Music (1942), Here Come the Waves (1944), White Christmas (1954) and The Court Jester (1955).

During his career he not only worked with Frank Borzage, but also numerous other famous film directors such as Henry Hathaway , Cecil B. DeMille , Mitchell Leisen , William Dieterle , William Wyler , George Marshall , George Seaton , Melville Shavelson , Blake Edwards , Bud Yorkin , Robert Mulligan , Mark Sandrich , Michael Curtiz and Melvin Frank together.

Web links

• Roland Anderson in the Internet Movie Database (English)