Roy Walker (production designer)

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Roy Walker (* 1931 in Tonbridge , Kent , England , Great Britain ; † January 6, 2013 ) was an American art director and production designer , who won an Oscar and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for best production design and two was nominated for the Oscar for best production design several times.

Life

Walker began his career as an art director and set designers in the film industry in Hollywood in 1953 with the film Women Gone Wrong (Turn the Key Softly) and worked until 2001 in the production of over forty films.

He won his Oscar for best production design at the 1976 Academy Awards with Ken Adam and Vernon Dixon for the film Barry Lyndon (1975) by Stanley Kubrick with Ryan O 'based on the novel The Memoirs of Junkers Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray Neal , Marisa Berenson and Patrick Magee .

In 1984 he received an Oscar nomination for Best Production Design in Yentl (1983) with Leslie Tomkins and Tessa Davies by and with Barbra Streisand with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving in other leading roles .

In 1985 he won the BAFTA Film Award for best production design in the anti-war film The Killing Fields (1984) by director Roland Joffé with Sam Waterston , Haing S. Ngor and John Malkovich .

Most recently he was nominated at the Academy Awards 2000 together with Bruno Cesari for the Oscar for best production design for the film The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith , which was directed by Anthony Minghella with Matt Damon , Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law was staged.

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SURNAME Walker, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tonbridge , Kent , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2013