Roy Davidson

E. Roy Davidson (born March 3, 1896 , † August 19, 1962 in Los Angeles ) was an American film technician .

Life

Roy Davidson worked as a film technician for special effects in Hollywood from 1932 . First he worked for the small production company Hal Roach Studios . In 1936 he was awarded a contract with Columbia Pictures , where for the first time in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , 1936) was used. For Capra's science fiction film In the Fetters of Shangri-La ( Lost Horizon , 1937), he made miniatures of landscapes and buildings. This is also the case for Howard Hawks ' aviator film SOS Feuer am Bord ( Only Angels Have Wings , 1939), for which he and Edwin C. Hahn received an Oscar nomination in 1940 in the category Best Special Effects . Later he also worked with Hawks on his film noir classics haben und nichthaben ( To Have and Have Not , 1944) and tote sleep tight ( The Big Sleep , 1946). He died in Los Angeles in 1962 at the age of 66 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1930: Hell's Angels ( Hell's Angels ) - Director: Howard Hughes
• 1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ) - Director: Frank Capra
• 1937: In the Shackles of Shangri-La ( Lost Horizon ) - Director: Frank Capra
• 1939: SOS Fire on Board ( Only Angels Have Wings ) - Director: Howard Hawks
• 1943: Into the Japanese Sun ( Air Force ) - directed by Howard Hawks
• 1943: Outlaw ( The Outlaw ) - Director: Howard Hughes
• 1943: Ambassador to Moscow ( Mission to Moscow ) - directed by Michael Curtiz
• 1943: Bloody Snow ( Northern Pursuit ) - Director: Raoul Walsh
• 1944: Ticket to Marseille ( Passage to Marseille ) - Director: Michael Curtiz
• 1944: On parole ( Uncertain Glory ) - Director: Raoul Walsh
• 1944: Have and Have Not ( To Have and Have Not ) - Director: Howard Hawks
• 1945: A woman with enterprising spirit ( Roughly Speaking ) - Director: Michael Curtiz
• 1945: Conflict ( Conflict ) - Director: Curtis Bernhardt
• 1945: Rhapsody in Blue ( Rhapsody in Blue ) - Director: Irving Rapper
• 1946: The Big Sleep ( The Big Sleep ) - Director: Howard Hawks
• 1946: Humoresque ( Humoresque ) - Director: Jean Negulesco
• 1949: Storm over the Pacific ( Task Force ) - Director: Delmer Daves
• 1949: Leap to Death ( White Heat ) - Director: Raoul Walsh

Awards

• 1940: An Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects for SOS Fire on Board with Edwin C. Hahn

Web links

• Roy Davidson in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kenneth Von Gunden: Flights of Fancy: The Great Fantasy Films . McFarland & Company, 1989, ISBN 0-7864-1214-3 , p. 133.