William Sandell
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
- 1976: Dracula's death race (crash!)
- 1978: Fast Charlie ... the Moonbeam Rider
- 1978: The Promise
- 1979: A Mad Family (Serial)
- 1980: dead & buried
- 1980: Blood Beach - Horror am Strand (Blood Beach)
- 1982: The incredible journey in a crazy spaceship
- 1984: The Wild Life
- 1984: St. Elmo's Fire
- 1986: RoboCop
- 1987: two times two
- 1989: Total Recall
- 1989: Valkenvania
- 1991: The Newsies
- 1992: Hocus Pocus
- 1993: The Feuerstein family
- 1994: Outbreak
- 1997: Air Force One
- 1998: Small Soldiers
- 1998: Deep Blue Sea
- 1999: The storm
- 2001: Dr. Dolittle 2
- 2001: My first twenty million
- 2002: Paycheck - The accounting
- 2003: Master & Commander - To the end of the world
- 2005: Poseidon
- 2007: Next
- 2008: The dog hotel
- 2012: Longmire (pilot of the TV series)
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.
Web links
- William Sandell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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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 |