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John Mead (art Director)
John Mead was a British art director.Bergfelder, Harris & Street p.81 He was employed designing the sets of more than thirty films. Selected filmography * '' Raise the Roof'' (1930) * ''Harmony Heaven'' (1930) * ''Suspense'' (1930) * ''Murder!'' (1930) * ''Compromising Daphne'' (1930) * '' The Middle Watch'' (1930) * '' The Flying Fool'' (1931) * '' Lucky Girl'' (1932) * '' Red Wagon'' (1933) * ''The Outcast'' (1934) * ''The Return of Bulldog Drummond'' (1934) * ''Abdul the Damned'' (1935) * '' Invitation to the Waltz'' (1935) * ''Love in Exile'' (1936) * '' Gypsy Melody'' (1936) * ''Sensation'' (1936) * ''Aren't Men Beasts!'' (1937) * ''Spring Handicap ''Spring Handicap'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton. The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the pla ...'' (1937) * '' Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' (1937) * '' At the Villa Rose'' (1940) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul The Damned (film)
''Abdul the Damned'' is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the republican Young Turks who dethroned him for power. It is also known as ''Abdul Hamid''. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar * Nils Asther as Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha * John Stuart as Captain Talak-Bey * Adrienne Ames as Therese Alder * Esme Percy as Ali - Chief Eunuch * Walter Rilla as Hassan-Bey * Charles Carson as General Hilmi-Pasha * Patric Knowles as Omar - Hilmi's Attache * Eric Portman as Conspirator * Clifford Heatherley as Court Doctor * Henry B. Longhurst as General of the Bodyguards * Annie Esmond as Therese's Train Companion * Harold Saxon-Snell as Chief Interrogator * George Zucco as Officer of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Art Directors
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At The Villa Rose (1940 Film)
''At the Villa Rose'', also known as ''House of Mystery'', is a 1940 British detective film directed by Walter Summers and starring Kenneth Kent and Judy Kelly. It is based on the novel '' At the Villa Rose'' by A.E.W. Mason featuring the French detective Inspector Hanaud. Cast * Kenneth Kent as Inspector Hanaud * Judy Kelly as Celia Harland * Peter Murray-Hill as Harry Wethermill * Walter Rilla as Mr. Ricardo * Ruth Maitland as Madame Dauvray * Antoinette Cellier as Adele Rossignol * Clifford Evans as Tace * Martita Hunt as Helen Vaquier * Ronald Adam General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, (30 October 1885 – 26 December 1982) was a senior British Army officer. He had an important influence on the conduct of the British Army during the Second World War as a result of his long tenure ... as Mons. Besnard Reception Allmovie called the film a "modest but intriguing British melodrama." References External links * 1940 films 1940 mystery films Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937 Film)
''Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' is a 1937 British mystery film based on the novel of the same name directed by Norman Lee and starring John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill and Claud Allister. It was made at Elstree Studios. Synopsis Bulldog Drummond goes up against a gang of foreign agents who are members of a British pacifist organisation called "The Key". The agents kidnap an inventor to steal the plans for a top-secret robot aircraft. Cast * John Lodge as Hugh Drummond * Dorothy Mackaill as Doris Thompson * Victor Jory as Gregoroff * Claud Allister as Algy Longworth * Richard Bird as Caldwell * Hugh Miller as Ivan Kalinsky * Leslie Perrins as Maj. Grayson * Brian Buchel as Meredith * Jim Gérald as Veight * Maire O'Neill as Norah, the Housekeeper * Annie Esmond as Mrs. Caldwell * Frank Cochrane as Dr. Belfrus * William Dewhurst as Reginald Portside * Wilfrid Hyde-White Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was a British character actor of stage, film and television. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring Handicap
''Spring Handicap'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton. The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the play ''The Last Coupon'' by Ernest E. Bryan. Premise A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance. Cast * Will Fyffe as Jack Clayton * Maire O'Neill as Meg Clayton * Billy Milton as Len Redpath * Aileen Marson as Barbara Clayton * Frank Pettingell as Scullion * David Burns as Amos * Hugh Miller as Selby * Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Tulip * Wilfrid Hyde White Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was a British character actor of stage, film and television. He achieved international recognition for his role as Colonel Pickering in the film version of the musical ''My Fair Lady'' (1964). Ea ... as Hawkins (uncredited) References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aren't Men Beasts!
''Aren't Men Beasts!'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Billy Milton. Premise A number of people try to prevent a man getting married. Cast * Robertson Hare as Herbert Holly * Alfred Drayton as Thomas Potter * Billy Milton as Roger Holly * June Clyde as Marie * Kathleen Harrison as Annie * Ruth Maitland as Selina Potter * Ellen Pollock as Vamp * Frank Royde as Policeman * Amy Veness as Mrs. Flower * Victor Stanley as Harry Harper * Charles Mortimer as Detective * Frederick Morant as George Deck * Anne Boyd as Louise Baker * Judy Kelly as Yvette Bingham Production The film was based on a play of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine. It was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures.Wood p.89 John Mead worked on the film as art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sensation (1936 Film)
''Sensation'' is a 1936 British crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring John Lodge, Diana Churchill, Francis Lister and Felix Aylmer. The screenplay concerns a crime reporter who solves a murder case using a piece of evidence he found amongst the victim's possessions. Cast * John Lodge as Pat Heston * Diana Churchill as Masie Turnpit * Francis Lister as Richard Grainger * Joan Marion as Mrs Grainger * Margaret Vyner as Claire Lindsay * Jerry Verno as Spikey * Richard Bird as Henry Belcher * Athene Seyler as Madame Henry * Dennis Wyndham as Spurge * Henry Oscar as Superintendent Stainer * Anthony Holles as Clarke * Martin Walker as Dimmitt * Sybil Grove as Mrs Spurge * Leslie Perrins as Strange * Felix Aylmer as Lord Bouverie Reception Writing for ''The Spectator'' in 1937, Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gypsy Melody
''Gypsy Melody'' is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Lupe Vélez, Alfred Rode and Jerry Verno. It was made at Elstree Studios.Wood p.90 The sets were designed by art director John Mead. The film was a remake of the 1935 French film '' Juanita''. Synopsis Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic milliner and they briefly take shelter with some gypsies, where the Captain falls in love with a young woman. Having been discovered by an American promoter while performing with gypsy orchestra in a tavern, the three accompany him to London as the latest new musical sensation. A great success, they begin a European-wide tour when their plane is forced down by bad weather in their homeland. Here events are satisfactorily resolved. Cast * Lupe Vélez as Mila * Alfred Rode as Captain Eric Danilo * Jerry Verno as Madame Beatrice * Raymond L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In Exile
''Love in Exile'' is a 1936 British romantic adventure film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Helen Vinson, Clive Brook and Mary Carlisle. Production The film was shot at Isleworth Studios in west London by the independent producer Max Schach.Wood p.91 It was based on the novel ''His Majesty's Pajamas'' by Gene Markey. The film's art direction was by John Mead. Cast * Helen Vinson as Countess Xandra St. Aurion * Clive Brook as King Regis VI * Mary Carlisle as Emily Stewart * Ronald Squire as Paul * Cecil Ramage as John Weston * Will Fyffe as Doc Tate * Tamara Desni as Tanya * Edmund Breon as Baron Zarroy * Henry Oscar as Dictator * Barbara Everest Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film ''The Man Without a Soul''. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 his ... as Anna References Bibliography *Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invitation To The Waltz (film)
''Invitation to the Waltz'' is a 1935 British historical musical film directed by Paul Merzbach and starring Lilian Harvey, Wendy Toye and Carl Esmond. It was based on a play by Eric Maschwitz. Production It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. The film's sets were designed by John Mead and Clarence Elder. Much of the film's score consists of extracts of classical music arranged by Walter Goehr. It was the only film made in Britain by the London-born German star Harvey. Harvey had returned from Hollywood and signed a three-film contract with British International Pictures, but after making only this film she returned to Germany and agreed a new contract with UFA.Bock & Bergfelder p. 51–52 Synopsis In London Jenny, an aspiring ballet dancer, meets an aide to the Duke of Wuerttemberg who is in Britain for a marriage alliance and financial treaty to supply troops to Britain for the war against Napoleon. After being discovered by an Italian impresario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of Bulldog Drummond
''The Return of Bulldog Drummond'' is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Walter Summers and starring Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd and Claud Allister. It was based on the 1922 novel ''The Black Gang'' by H.C. McNeile and the fourth film in the series of twenty five. Plot summary Cast * Ralph Richardson as Bulldog Drummond * Ann Todd as Phyllis Drummond * Joyce Kennedy as Irma Peterson * Francis L. Sullivan as Carl Peterson * Claud Allister as Algy Longworth * Harold Saxon-Snell as Zadowa * Spencer Trevor as Sir Bryan Johnstone * Charles Mortimer as Inspector McIver * Wallace Geoffrey as Charles Latter * Patrick Aherne as Jerry Seymour * Raymond Raikes Raymond Montgomery Raikes (13 September 1910 – 2 October 1998) was a British theatre producer, director and broadcaster. He was particularly known for his productions of classic dramas for BBC Radio's "World Theatre" and "National Theatre of ... as Ted Jerningham References External links * * * Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
