Tambi Larsen

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Tambi Larsen (born September 11, 1914 in Bangalore , India , † March 24, 2001 in Hollywood , California ), actually Johannes Larsen , was an American film architect with Danish roots.

Life

Larsen was born as the son of a Danish missionary in India, where he grew up and initially attended school, which he later graduated from in Denmark. At the age of 20 he emigrated to the United States, where he attended the Yale Drama School . He married an American in 1941 and took American citizenship two years later. During World War II he worked for the Office for war coverage when radio station Voice of America as a newscaster operates. After the war ended, he and his family moved to Hollywood, where he got a job with Paramount Pictures in the mid-1950s . At first he worked frequently with Jerry Lewis ; between 1954 and 1964 he made six films together.

He received an Oscar in 1956 for his fourth feature film , Daniel Mann's drama The Tattooed Rose with Burt Lancaster . In the 1960s he was nominated two more times for an Oscar, for the western The Wildest Among a Thousand and the thriller The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold . After another 1971 Academy Award nomination for the historical drama Cursed to Judgment Day , Larsen worked twice with Clint Eastwood , The Last Bite the Dogs and The Texan . His last film was Michael Cimino's late-western Heaven’s Gate , which is commercially one of the biggest flops in cinema history, but for which it was again nominated for an Oscar. Then he withdrew into private life.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1956: Oscar for The Tattooed Rose
  • 1964: Oscar nomination for The Wildest Among Thousand
  • 1966: Oscar nomination for The Spy Who Came In The Cold
  • 1967: British Film Academy Award for The Spy Who Came In The Cold
  • 1971: Oscar nomination for Cursed Until Judgment Day
  • 1982: Oscar nomination for Heaven's Gate

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personal data
SURNAME Larsen, Tambi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larsen, Johannes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-American art director
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangalore , India
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2001
Place of death Hollywood , California