Wilfred Shingleton
Wilfred James Shingleton , also Wilfrid Shingleton (born January 24, 1914 in Brentford , County Middlesex , now part of London , † June 1983 in London- Hillingdon ) was a British film architect .
Live and act
Shingleton, one of the most outstanding production designers of high-quality entertainment cinema in his country after 1945, joined film in 1931. At the production company Ealing he learned his craft from scratch. From 1937 he was jointly responsible as a film architect, but until he was called up in 1941, he only worked on films of minor importance.
Shingleton's career took off after his return to film in 1945-46. His post-war first release, on which he was allowed to work alongside his more experienced colleague John Bryan , earned him a great reputation. Shingleton won an Oscar for the execution of the decorations for David Lean's Dickens adaptation, Mysterious Legacy , with which he evoked Queen Victoria’s England, which were designed by Bryan and which were precise down to the last detail .
Since then, Wilfred Shingleton has been involved in a plethora of high quality films - including a. John Huston's African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn , Lord of the House I am with Charles Laughton , The Key with William Holden and Sophia Loren , Once a Hero with John Mills and Alec Guinness , Playing with Fate with Laurence Olivier - where he was faced a wide variety of tasks. Shingleton was able to give both chamber play-like dramas and exotic adventure materials an adequate flair. With his buildings for Jack Clayton's Castle of Secrets he created a perfect ' gothic ' atmosphere; his nested, narrow inn stocked with cloves of garlic and the eerie Count's Castle with its bright ballroom in Roman Polański's Dance of the Vampires were among his best late performances.
Polanski also brought the Londoner in 1971 for his Macbeth version, which also gained a lot of grim atmosphere through Shingleton's backdrops. The production designer did his last job at the age of 67 for James Ivory's visually stunning India picture sheet heat and dust . Wilfred Shingleton had also designed for television, his best-known and most lavish production was the much-discussed US four-part Holocaust in 1977/78 .
Filmography
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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. 303.
Web links
- Wilfred Shingleton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Shingleton, Wilfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shingleton, Wilfrid; Shingleton, Wilfred James (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British production designer ( art director and production designer) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brentford , Middlesex |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1983 |
| Place of death | London -Hillingdon |