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German art director
Alfred Junge
Born 29 January 1886 Died 16 July 1964 Occupation
Art director Years active 1923–1957 (film)
Alfred Junge (29 January 1886,
Görlitz ,
Silesia (now
Saxony ), Germany – 16 July 1964,
Bad Kissingen ,
West Germany ) was a
German -born production
designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry.
[1]
[2]
Biography
Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in
theatre in his teenage years, he joined the
Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years.[
citation needed ] Junge began his career in film at
Berlin 's
UFA studios , working there as an art director from 1920 until 1928, when he relocated to
British International Pictures as part of the production team of director
E.A. Dupont .
[3]
[1] He remained with BIP at
Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in
France with
Marcel Pagnol . From 1932 he remained in Britain.
[1]
Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new
Gaumont British art department
[3] where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After being Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director, he moved to
MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the
Second World War .
After a brief spell spent interned as an
enemy alien on the
Isle of Man , Junge returned to film work.
[1] In 1939, he had worked with
Powell and Pressburger on
Contraband , the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership.
[4]
[2] The last of these was
Black Narcissus (1947);
[4] his designs for the
Himalayas -set film earned Junge the
Oscar for
Best Art Direction .
[5]
From 1947 to 1955, he was in charge of MGM-British's art department, working on transatlantic titles such as
Ivanhoe (1952).
[1]
[3] During this period he received a second nomination for the
Arthurian epic
Knights of the Round Table (1954).
[6]
He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the
Royal Academy in London. This was a sketch of
The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).[
citation needed ]
Michael Powell called him "probably the greatest art director that films have ever known".
[3]
Filmography
References
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1927–1939 Interior Decoration 1940–1946 Black & White / Color separate
1940 (bw):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Paul Groesse / (c):
Vincent Korda
1941 (bw):
Richard Day ,
Nathan Juran ,
Thomas Little / (c):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Urie McCleary ,
Edwin B. Willis
1942 (bw):
Richard Day ,
Joseph C. Wright ,
Thomas Little / (c):
Richard Day ,
Joseph C. Wright ,
Thomas Little
1943 (bw):
James Basevi ,
William S. Darling ,
Thomas Little / (c):
Alexander Golitzen ,
John B. Goodman ,
Russell A. Gausman ,
Ira S. Webb
1944 (bw):
Cedric Gibbons ,
William Ferrari ,
Paul Huldschinsky ,
Edwin B. Willis / (c):
Wiard Ihnen ,
Thomas Little
1945 (bw):
Wiard Ihnen ,
A. Roland Fields / (c):
Hans Dreier ,
Ernst Fegté ,
Samuel M. Comer
1946 (bw):
William S. Darling ,
Lyle R. Wheeler ,
Thomas Little ,
Frank E. Hughes / (c):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Paul Groesse ,
Edwin B. Willis
1947–1956 renamed Art Direction - Set Decoration Black & White / Color separate
1947 (bw):
John Bryan ,
Wilfred Shingleton / (c):
Alfred Junge
1948 (bw):
Roger K. Furse ,
Carmen Dillon / (c):
Hein Heckroth ,
Arthur Lawson
1949 (bw):
Harry Horner ,
John Meehan ,
Emile Kuri / (c):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Paul Groesse ,
Edwin B. Willis ,
Jack D. Moore
1950 (bw):
Hans Dreier ,
John Meehan ,
Samuel M. Comer ,
Ray Moyer / (c):
Hans Dreier ,
Walter Tyler ,
Samuel M. Comer ,
Ray Moyer
1951 (bw):
Richard Day ,
George James Hopkins / (c):
Cedric Gibbons ,
E. Preston Ames ,
Edwin B. Willis ,
F. Keogh Gleason
1952 (bw):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Edward Carfagno ,
Edwin B. Willis ,
F. Keogh Gleason /(c):
Paul Sheriff ,
Marcel Vertès
1953 (bw):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Edward Carfagno ,
Edwin B. Willis ,
Hugh Hunt / (c):
Lyle R. Wheeler ,
George Davis ,
Walter M. Scott ,
Paul S. Fox
1954 (bw):
Richard Day / (c):
John Meehan ,
Emile Kuri
1955 (bw):
Hal Pereira ,
Tambi Larsen ,
Samuel M. Comer ,
Arthur Krams / (c):
William Flannery ,
Jo Mielziner ,
Robert Priestley
1956 (bw):
Cedric Gibbons ,
Malcolm F. Brown ,
Edwin B. Willis ,
F. Keogh Gleason / (c):
Lyle R. Wheeler ,
John DeCuir ,
Walter M. Scott ,
Paul S. Fox
1957–1958 1959–1966 Black & White / Color separate
1959 (bw):
Lyle R. Wheeler ,
George Davis ,
Walter M. Scott ,
Stuart A. Reiss / (c):
William A. Horning (
posthumous award ),
Edward Carfagno ,
Hugh Hunt
1960 (bw):
Alexandre Trauner ,
Edward G. Boyle /(c):
Alexander Golitzen ,
Eric Orbom (
posthumous award ),
Russell A. Gausman ,
Julia Heron
1961 (bw):
Harry Horner ,
Gene Callahan / (c):
Boris Leven ,
Victor A. Gangelin
1962 (bw):
Alexander Golitzen ,
Henry Bumstead ,
Oliver Emert /(c):
John Box ,
John Stoll ,
Dario Simoni
1963 (bw):
Gene Callahan / (c):
John DeCuir ,
Jack Martin Smith ,
Hilyard M. Brown ,
Herman A. Blumenthal ,
Elven Webb ,
Maurice Pelling ,
Boris Juraga ,
Walter M. Scott ,
Paul S. Fox ,
Ray Moyer
1964 (bw):
Vassilis Photopoulos /(c):
Gene Allen ,
Cecil Beaton ,
George James Hopkins
1965 (bw):
Robert Clatworthy ,
Joseph Kish /(c):
John Box ,
Terence Marsh ,
Dario Simoni
1966 (bw):
Richard Sylbert ,
George James Hopkins / (c):
Jack Martin Smith ,
Dale Hennesy ,
Walter M. Scott ,
Stuart A. Reiss
1967–1980
1967:
John Truscott ,
Edward Carrere ,
John W. Brown
1968:
John Box ,
Terence Marsh ,
Vernon Dixon ,
Ken Muggleston
1969:
John DeCuir ,
Jack Martin Smith ,
Herman A. Blumenthal ,
Walter M. Scott ,
George James Hopkins ,
Raphaël Bretton
1970:
Urie McCleary ,
Gil Parrondo ,
Antonio Mateos ,
Pierre-Louis Thévenet
1971:
John Box ,
Ernest Archer ,
Jack Maxsted ,
Gil Parrondo ,
Vernon Dixon
1972:
Rolf Zehetbauer ,
Jurgen Kiebach ,
Herbert Strabel
1973:
Henry Bumstead ,
James W. Payne
1974:
Dean Tavoularis ,
Angelo P. Graham ,
George R. Nelson
1975:
Ken Adam ,
Roy Walker ,
Vernon Dixon
1976:
George C. Jenkins ,
George Gaines
1977:
John Barry ,
Norman Reynolds ,
Leslie Dilley ,
Roger Christian
1978:
Paul Sylbert ,
Edwin O'Donovan ,
George Gaines
1979:
Philip Rosenberg ,
Tony Walton ,
Edward Stewart ,
Gary J. Brink
1980:
Pierre Guffroy ,
Jack Stephens
1981–2000 2001–present
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