Stuart Wurtzel
Stuart Wurtzel (born August 9, 1940 in Newark , New Jersey , United States ) is an American film architect .
Life
Wurtzel trained in design at Carnegie Mellon University and began his professional career as a production designer at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco . From the summer of 1962 he worked at New York venues for a good ten years, where he designed the sets for the plays A Toy for the Clowns, Hamlet, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear and Trumpets and Drums . Through his theatrical work Wurtzel met the director Joan Micklin Silver , who let him design the film structures for her first cinema director, Hester Street, which was highly acclaimed by critics .
“Stuart Wurtzel proved above all a sure hand in the design of personal, private spaces and worlds, often microcosms with a Jewish-urban character on the east coast and in the provinces.” For one of these works, Woody Allen's Hannah and her sisters received he received an Oscar nomination in 1987 . Other important films that lived on Wurtzel's designs were the musical Hair , the revolutionary adventure Old Gringo , the 60s nostalgia mermaids kiss better and a number of romantic comedies of the new millennium.
Stuart Wurtzel is married to his colleague Patrizia von Brandenstein .
Filmography
- 1974: Hester Street ( Hester Street )
- 1976: Oil ( The Next Man )
- 1976: Between the lines ( Between the Lines )
- 1977: Hair (WP: 1979)
- 1979: Countdown in Manhattan ( Night of the Juggler )
- 1980: Simon the Extra-Terrestrial ( Simon )
- 1980: Times Square - you can see us ( Times Square )
- 1981: Tattoo ( Tattoo )
- 1981: The Chosen ( The Chosen )
- 1983: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez ( The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez )
- 1984: The Purple Rose of Cairo
- 1985: Hannah and her sisters
- 1986: Brighton Beach Memoirs ( Brighton Beach Memoirs )
- 1986: Suspect
- 1987: The house on Carroll Street
- 1988: Old Gringo
- 1989: Put on the cross by cops ( An Innocent Man )
- 1989: Boys (Boys)
- 1989: Mermaids kiss better
- 1990: Three men and a little lady
- 1991: The autumn crooks
- 1992: Romeo Is Bleeding
- 1994: IQ - love is relative
- 1995: before and after
- 1996: The Spirit and the Dark
- 1996: Jungle 2 Jungle
- 1997: side by side
- 1997: Subtenant from beyond ( curtain call )
- 1999: isn't it great? ( Isn't She Great )
- 2001: Wit (TV movie)
- 2001: murder according to plan
- 2003: Angels in America (TV series)
- 2005: Empire Falls (TV movie)
- 2005: Little Manhattan
- 2006: Wilbur the pig and his friends
- 2007: Cursed
- 2008: Marley & Me
- 2010: letters to Julia
- 2011: No cure for love
- 2011: Mr. Poppers Penguins
- 2012: Like the first time
- 2012: Lullaby
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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 473.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 473.
Web links
- Stuart Wurtzel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wurtzel, Stuart |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark , New Jersey , United States |