William Sandell

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William Martin Sandell (born August 9, 1950 in Los Angeles , California , United States ) is an American film architect .

Life

Sandell had worked in various artistic fields - as a prop master and assistant production designer - before he started working as a designer of film sets from the mid-1970s. For several years he had to be content with commissions for B-productions, only with the commercial success of the Brat Pack cult film St. Elmo's Fire did he succeed in becoming a highly commercial multi-million dollar Hollywood cinema .

Sandell's best designs are characterized by a high degree of ingenuity and variety of forms: for Valkenvania he created a scrap landscape including a haunted building, for Paul Verhoeven's science fiction film Total Recall he created a clearly composed future backdrop, and Sandell used himself for the witch film Hocus Pocus in the fund of storybook fantasies. With Die Familie Feuerstein , William Sandell revived colorful plastic comic dwellings in 1993, while with Wolfgang Petersen's airplane thriller Air Force One in 1996 he had the American presidential plane of the same name rebuilt in a 1: 1 ratio . Sandell worked with Petersen a total of four times.

His replica of a sailing ship in the adventure film Master & Commander , Sandell won an Oscar nomination in 2004 .

Filmography

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. 35.

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personal data
SURNAME Sandell, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sandell, William Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States