Rudolph Sternad

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Rudolph Sternad (* 6. October 1906 in the Bronx , New York City , New York ; † 21st April 1963 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director , who in more than twenty films of the director and film producer Stanley Kramer collaborated and was nominated three times for the Oscar for the best film construction .

Life

Sternad was trained at the Cooper Union Institute in 1922/23, at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1924 and at the Chouinard Art Institute in 1925 . In 1926 he joined the film as a draftsman, then worked as an outfitter and from 1936, starting with the film The Message to Garcia , as chief architect. In the course of his career, Sternad has worked for 20th Century Fox , United Artists and MGM in the production of over seventy films, more than twenty of which were directed or produced by Stanley Kramer.

He received his first of three Oscar nominations for Best Design at the 1943 Academy Awards with Lionel Banks and Fay Babcock for the black and white film Witness the Prosecution , a comedy film starring Cary Grant , Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman directed by George Stevens from the 1942. In 1946 he was nominated for an Oscar in this category along with Stephen Goosson and Frank Tuttle for the color film A Thousand and One Nights (1945), an adventure film by Alfred E. Green with Evelyn Keyes , Phil Silvers and Adele Jergens . Most recently, he was nominated for the Oscar for the best production design together with George Milo at the 1962 Academy Awards for the black and white film adaptation of the Nuremberg Jurists' Trials of 1947 with Spencer Tracy , directed by Kramer, under the title The Judgment of Nuremberg (1961) , Starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark .

Sternad's last work, The Fool Killer , hit theaters two years after his sudden death.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 479.

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personal data
SURNAME Sternad, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1963
Place of death Los Angeles , California