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Hans Dreier


1885 - 1966

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The production designer Hans Dreier as not only active in Germany but also became one of the most important production designers in Hollywood from 1923.

Before Hans Dreier entered the film business he finished his study for architecture and engineering and worked afterwards for the German government. Among others he had a job in Cameroon.

He got in touch with the film in 1919 where he could use his education as an architect optimally. To his first movies belong "Seelenverkäufer" (19), "Der Teufel und die Madonna" (19), "Lilli" (19), "Nachtgestalten" (20), "Kurfürstendamm" (20), "Manolescus Memoiren" (20), "Die Fürstin Woronzoff" (20), "Lady Godiva" (21), "Danton" (21), "Lady Hamilton" (21), "Fridericus Rex" (22) and "Peter der Grosse" (22)

Despite his huge success he had for the German film straightaway he went to Hollywood in 1923 where he got a contract by Paramount. He worked for this production company till 1951 and he was the production designer for many well-known productions.

To his American silent movies belong "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (23), "Wings" (27), "Underworld" (27), "Street of Sin" (28), "The Last Command" (28), "The Legion of the Condemned" (28) and "The Patriot" (28).

He became established in the USA in the 30s for good and Hans Dreier created the coulisses of popular movies like "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (31), "Shanghai Express" (32), "Trouble in Paradise" (32), "I'm No Angel" (33), "Duck Soup" (33), "The Scarlet Empress" (34), "Cleopatra" (34), "The Glass Key" (35), "Peter Ibbetson" (35), "Desire" (36), "The Plainsman" (36), "Wells Fargo" (37), "The Buccaneer" (38), "Bluebeard's Eight Wife" (38), "Union Pacific" (39), "Beau Geste" (39) and "The Cat and the Canary" (39).

Thank to a huge team he presided over - among them Albert S. D'Agostino and Roland Anderson - Hans Dreier was also able to create the set for an enormous number of movies of the 40s again, among them "The Farmer's Daughter" (40), "The Great McGinty" (40), "The Lady Eve" (41), "Sullivan's Travels" (41), "The Glass Key" (42), "The Palm Beach Story" (42), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (43), "Ministry of Fear" (44), "The Lost Weekend" (45), "The Blue Dahlia" (46), "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (46), "The Perils of Pauline" (47), "The Big Clock" (48), "Sorry, Wrong Number" (48), "The Paleface" (48), "Samson and Delilah" (49) and "The Great Gatsby" (49).

He only worked for few more movies in the 50s before he retired from the film business in 1951.
To his last cinematical works belong "Riding High" (50), "Sunset Blvd." (50), "Union Station" (50) and "A Place in the Sun" (51).

During his long lasting career in Hollywood Hans Dreier was awarded with three Oscars for "Frenchmen's Creek" (44), "Samson and Delilah" (49) and "Sunset Blvd." (50). In addition he was also nominated for an Oscar 20 times.


Other movies from Hans Dreier:
Seine Beichte/Bekenntnisse eines Lebemannes (19) Ut mine stromtid (19) Lillis Ehe (19) Der letzte Zeuge (19) Maria Magdalene (20) Der Reigen (20)  Sizilianische Blutrache (20) Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin (20) Florentinische Nächte (20) Das Frauenhaus von Brescia (20) Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore (21) Die grosse und die kleine Welt (21) Aus dem Schwarzbuch eines Polizeikommissars (21) Fahrendes Volk (21) Das Rätsel der Sphinx (21) Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo (21) Das Laster des Spiels (23) Bohème (23) Die grosse Unbekannte (24) Forbidden Paradise (24) Zwischen zwei Frauen (25) The Dragnet (28) Ladies of the Mob (28) The Docks of New York (28) The Case of Lena Smith (29) Betrayal (29) A Dangerous Woman (29) Innocents of Paris (29) Thunderbolt (29) The Love Parade (29) The Vagabond King (30) Dishonored (31) Ein Walzertraum (31) Confessions of a Co-Ed (1) An American Tragedy (31) An American Tragedy (31) Broken Lullaby (32) One Hour with You (32) Love Me Tonight (32) Island of Lost Souls (32) A Farewell to Arms (32) The Song of Songs (33) This Day and Age (33) One Sunday Afternoon (33) Too Much Harmony (33) Tillie and Gus (33) The Way to Love (33) White Woman (33) Design for Living (33) Miss Fane's Baby Is Strolen (34) All of Me (34) Search for Beauty (34) Six of a Kind (34) Death Takes a Holiday (34) Melody in Spring (34) You're Telling Me! (34) We're Not Dressing (34) Double Door (34) Thirty Day Princess (34) Murder at the Vanities (34) Little Miss Marker (34) Shoot the Works (34) Kiss and Make-Up (34) The Notorious Sophie Lang (34) Ladies Should Listen (34) She Loves Me Not (34) Now and Forever (34) The Pursuit of Happiness (34) The Lemon Drop Kid (34) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (34) Menace (34) It's a Gift (34) Behold My Wife (34) Limehouse Blues (34) Father Brown, Detective (34) Here Is My Heart (34) Enter Madame! (35) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (35) Wings in the Dark (35) Rumba (35) Ruggles of Red Gap (35) Car 99 (35) Rocky Mountain Mystery (35) Mississippi (35) The Devil Is a Woman (35) Stolen Harmony (35) Goin' to town (35) Paris in Spring (35) So Red the Rose (35)  Men Without Names (35) Man on the Flying Trapeze (35) Accent on Youth (35) Here Comes Cookie (35) The Virginia Judge (35) The Big Broadcast of 1936 (35) The Last Outpost (35) Hands Across the Table (35) Ship Cafe (35) Coronado (35) Nevada (35) The Bride Comes Home (35) Rose of the Rancho (36) Collegiate (36) Anything Goes (36) Timothy's Quest (36) The Milky Way (36) Drift Fence (36) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (36) Klondike Annie (36) The Preview Murder Mystery (36) Woman Trap (36) Give Us This Night (36) Desert Gold (36) Till We Meet Again (36) Sky Parade (36) Thirteen Hours by Air (36) F-Man (36) Forgotten Faces (36) The Princess Comes Across (36) Border Flight (36) Early to Bed (36) Girl of the Ozarks (36) And Sudden Death (36) Poppy (36) The Return of Sophie Lang (36) The Arizona Raiders (36) Rhythm on the Range (36) Yours for the Asking (36) A Son Comes Home (36) Hollywood Boulevard (36) The Texas Rangers (36) Straight from the Shoulder (36) The General Died at Dawn (36) Lady Be Careful (36) Wives Never Know (36) Three Married Men (36) Murder with Pictures (36) The Big Broadcast of 1937 (36) Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (36) Wedding Present (36) Easy to Take (36) The Accusing Finger (36) Let's Make a Million (36) Collegte Holiday (36) The Jungle Princess (36) Champagne Waltz (37) Bulldog Drummond Escapes (37) Maid of Salem (37) Clarence (37) The Crime Nobody Saw (37) Swing High, Swing Low (37) Waikiki Wedding (37) Internes Can't Take Money (37) King of Gamblers (37) Make Way for Tomorrow (37) Turn Off the Moon (37) Night of Mystery (37) I Met Him in Paris (37) Hotel Haywire (37) The Last Train from Madrid (37) Mountain Music (37) Forlorn River (37) Easy Living (37) Wild Money (37) High, Wide, and Handsome (37) Exclusive (37) Artists & Models (37) Souls at Sea (37) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (37) Sophie Lang Goes West (37) This Way Please (37) Partners in Crime (37) Thunder Trail (37) Angel (37) Hold 'Em Navy (37) Night Club Scandal (37) Ebb Tide (37) Thrill of a Lifetime (37) Born to the West (37) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (37) Daughter of Shanghai (37) True Confession (37) The Big Broadcast of 1938 (38) Scandal Street (38) Dangeorus to Know (38) Bulldog Drummond's Peril (38) Her Jungle Love (38) Romance in the Dark (38) Tip-Off Girls (38) College Swing (38) Stolen Heaven (38) Cocoanut Grove (38) Hunted Men (38) You and Me (38) Prison Farm (38) Men with Wings (38) The Texans (38) Bulldog Drummond in Africa (38) Sing, You Sinners (38) Give Me a Sailor (38) Spawn of the North (38) Sons of the Legion (38) Campus Confessions (38) If I Were King (38) King of Alcatraz (38) Touchdown, Army (38) The Arkansas Traveler (38) Illegal Traffic (38) Thanks for the Memory (38) Say It in French (38) Ride a Crooked Mile (38) Artists and Models Abroad (38) Tom Sawyer, Detective (38) Zaza (38) Disbarred (39) Arrest Bulldog Drummond (39) Ambush (39) Paris Honeymoon (39) Boy Trouble (39) St. Louis Blues (39) Persons in Hiding (39) Cafe Society (39) King of Chinatown (39) Midnight (39) Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (39) Hotel Imperial (39) Never Say Die (39) Some Like It Hot (39) Unmarried (39) Undercover Doctor (39) The Gracie Allen Murder Case (39) Invitation th Happiness (39) Grand Jury Secrets (39) Man About Town (39) Bulldog Drummond's Bride (39) Million Dollar Legs (39) Night Work (39) Island of Lost Men (39) Our Leading Citizen (39) Death of a Champion (39) The Star Maker (39) Honeymoon in Bali (39) $1000 a Touchdown (39) What a Life (39) Television Spy (39) Disputed Passage (39) Rulers of the Sea (39) Our Neighbors – The Carters (39) Geronimo (39) The Night of Nights (39) The Great Victor Herbert (39) All Women Have Secrets (39) The Light That Failed (39) Emergency Squad (40) Remember the Night (40) Parole Fixer (40) Seventeen (40) Adventure in Diamonds (40) Road to Singapore (40) Women Without Names (40) Dr. Cyclops (40) Buck Benny Rides Again (40) Opened by Mistake (40) Typhoon (40) The Biscuit Eater (40) The Way of All Flesh (40) The Ghost Breakers (40) Safari (40) Queen of the Mob (40) Those Were the Days! (40) Untamed (40) Golden Gloves (40) Mystery Sea Raider (40) Comin' Round the Mountain (40) Rhythm on the River (40) I Want a Divorce (40) Rangers of Fortune (40) Arise, My Love (40) Christmas in July (40) North West Mounted Police (40) Dancing on a Dime (40) A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) Moon Over Burma (40) The Texas Rangers Ride Again (40) Love Thy Neighbor (40) Victory (40) Life with Henry (41) Virginia (41) The Mad Doctor (41) You're the One (41) The Monster and the Girl (41) Las Vegas Nights (41) I Wanted Wings (41) Road to Zanzibar (41) Reaching for the Sun (41) One Night in Lisbon (41) The Hard-Boiled Canary (41) West Point Widow (41) Caught in the Draft (41) The Shepherd of the Hills (41) World Premiere (41) Aloma of the South Seas (41) Hold Back the Dawn (41) Buy Me That Town (41) Nothing But the Truth (41) Henry Aldrich for President (41) New York Town (41) Birth of the Blues (41) Skylark (41) The Night of January 16th (41) Glamour Boy (41) Bahama Passage (41) Among the Living (41) Louisiana Purchase (41) Pacific Blackout (41) Fly-By-Night (42) The Lady Has Plans (42) The Fleet's In (42) The Remarkable Andrew (42) Reap the Wild Wind (42) True to the Army (42) My Favorite Blonde (42) The Great Man's Lady (42) Take a Letter, Darling (42) Dr. Broadway (42) This Gun for Hire (42) Henry and Dizzy (42) Beyond the Blue Horizon (42) Night in New Orleans (42) Priorities on Parade (42) Holiday Inn (42) Wake Island (42) Henry Aldrich, Editor (42) The Major and the Minor (42) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (42) Street of Chance (42) The Forest Rangers (42) I Married a Witch (42) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (42) Road to Morocco (42) Lucky Jordan (42) Star Spangled Rhythm (42) No Time for Love (43) Lady Bodyguard (43) Happy Go Lucky (43) The Crystal Ball (43) Young and Willing (43) Salute for Three (43) China (43) Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (43) Five Graves to Cairo (43) Night Plane from Chungking (43) Henry Aldrich Swings It (43) Dixie (43) Let's Face It (43) The Good Fellows (43) Hostages (43) The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (43) So Proudly We Hail! (43) Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (43) Riding High (43) True to Life (43) Happy Go Lucky (43) Lady in the Dark (44) Standing Room Only (44) Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout (44) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (44) The Uninvited (44) You Can't Ration Love (44) Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid (44) Double Indemnity (44) And the Angels Sing (44) The Hitler Gang (44) The Story of Dr. Wassell (44) Going My Way (44) The Hour Before the Dawn (44) Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (44) Hail the Conquering Hero (44) I Love a Soldier (44) Till We Meet Again (44) Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (44) Rainbow Island (44) The Great Moment (44) Frenchman's Creek (44) National Barn Dance (44) And Now Tomorrow (44) Here Come the Waves (44) Practically Yours (44) The Man in Half Moon Street (45) Bring on the Girls (45) Salty O'Rourke (45) The Affairs of Susan (45) A Medal for Benny (45) The Unseen (45) Murder, He Says (45) You Came Along (45) Out of This World (45) Incendiary Blonde (45) Love Letters (45) Duffy's Tavern (45) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (45) Kitty (45) Road to Utopia (45) Hold That Blonde! (45) Masquerade in Mexico (45) The Stork Club (45) Miss Susie Slagle's (46) Two Years Before the Mast (46) To Each His Own (46) The Virginian (46) The Bride Wore Bootes (46) The Well-Groomed Bride (46) O.S.S. (46) Our Hearts Were Growing Up (46) The Searching Wind (46) Monsieur Beaucaire (46) Blue Skies (46) Cross My Heart (46) Ladies' Man (47) California (47) Easy Come, Easy Go (47) Suddenly It's Srping (47) My Favorite Brunette (47) Calcutta (47) The Imperfect Lady (47) Blaze of Noon (47) Dear Ruth (47) Welcome Stranger (47) Champagne for Two (47) The Trouble with Women (47) Golden Earrings (47) Variety Girl (47) Unconquered (47) Wild Harvest (47) Paris in the Spring (47) Where There's Life (47) Road to Rio (47) I Walk Alone (48) Saigon (48) The Sainted Sisters (48) The Emperor Waltz (48) Hazard (48) Dream Girl (48) A Foreign Affair (48) Beyond Glory (48) Big Sister Bles (48) Isn't It Romantic? (48) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (48) Sealed Verdict (48) Miss Tatlock's Millins (48) Whispering Smith (48) The Accuse (49) My Own True Love (49) Alias Nick Beal (49) Bride of Vengeance (49) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (49) Streets of Laredo (49) Sorrowful Jones (49) Rope of Sand (49) Top o' the Morning (49) Red, Hot and Blue (49) My Friend Irma (49) Chicago Deadline (49) Song of Surrender (49) Dear Wife (49) The Great Lover (49) The File on Thelma Jordon (50) Captain China (50) Paid in Full (50) No Man of Her Own (50) Captain Carey, U.S.A. (50) My Friend Irma Goes West (50) Fancy Pants (50) The Furies (50) September Affair (50) Copper Canyon (50) Dark City (50) Branded (50) Let's Dance (50) Mr. Music (50) Appointment with Danger (51)

Costume Designer:
Lady Hamilton (21)

Actor:
Danton (21)


 
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