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Darrell Silvera is a Set Dresser and Set Dressing Artist American born on 18 december 1900

Darrell Silvera

Darrell Silvera
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Birth name Kingsley Redvers Silvera
Nationality USA
Birth 18 december 1900
Death 22 july 1983 (at 82 years) at San Diego (USA)

Darrell Silvera (December 18, 1900 – July 22, 1983) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 and 1978.

Biography

Au cinéma, principalement pour la RKO Pictures, Darrell Silvera collabore aux décors de près de quatre-cents films américains (dont des westerns), entre 1934 et 1978, le dernier étant Driver de Walter Hill.

Dans l'intervalle, il travaille notamment sur plusieurs réalisations de Mark Sandrich (ex. : En suivant la flotte en 1936), de George Stevens (ex. : Gunga Din en 1939), d'Alfred Hitchcock (ex. : Les Enchaînés en 1946), de Nicholas Ray (ex. : La Maison dans l'ombre en 1952), ou encore de John Ford (ex. : Les Cheyennes en 1964), entre autres.

Durant sa carrière, il obtient sept nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure direction artistique (mais n'en gagne pas), la première en 1942 pour Citizen Kane (1941) d'Orson Welles, la dernière en 1971 pour Traître sur commande (1970) de Martin Ritt.

À la télévision, de 1960 à 1970, Darrell Silvera est décorateur sur six séries, dont Denis la petite peste (douze épisodes, 1959-1961) et Adèle (huit épisodes, 1965).

Best films

Notorious (1946)
(Set Decoration)
Citizen Kane (1941)
(Set Decoration)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
(Set Decoration)
McLintock! (1963)
(Set Decoration)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
(Set Decoration)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Roy Webb
Roy Webb
(98 films)
Renié
Renié
(80 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Darrell Silvera (310 films)

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Art

The Driver
The Driver (1978)
, 1h31
Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley, Matt Clark, Joseph Walsh
Roles Set Decoration
Rating71% 3.5504953.5504953.5504953.5504953.550495
The Driver (Ryan O'Neal) - real name unknown - has made a career out of stealing cars to use as getaway vehicles in big-time robberies all over Los Angeles. Hot on the Driver's trail is the Detective (Bruce Dern), a conceited and otherwise-nameless cop who has his own name for the Driver: "Cowboy." Since the Driver has never been caught, the Detective goes to ever-increasing lengths to bring him down. Ultimately, the Detective sets up a bank job in order to bait and trap the Driver. Even when said plan threatens to wreck the Detective's own career, he remains steadfast in his obsession to bust the Driver.
Breakheart Pass, 1h35
Directed by Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about viral outbreaks, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Ed Lauter, Charles Durning
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.3479553.3479553.3479553.3479553.347955
In the 1870s, residents of the garrison at the Fort Humboldt Army outpost are supposedly suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A train is heading towards the fort filled with reinforcements and medical supplies. There are also civilian passengers on the train – Nevada Governor Fairchild (Richard Crenna) and his fiancée Marica (Jill Ireland), among others.
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros (1974)
, 1h41
Directed by Tom O'Horgan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Karen Black, Joe Silver, Marilyn Chris, Howard Morton
Roles Set Decoration
Rating57% 2.8513952.8513952.8513952.8513952.851395
The residents of a large town are inexplicably turning into rhinoceroses. Stanley (Gene Wilder), a mild-mannered office clerk, watches the bizarre transformations from a bemused distance. But soon the strange occurrences invade his personal space, as his neighbor and best friend John (Zero Mostel) and his girlfriend Daisy (Karen Black) become part of the human-into-rhinoceros metamorphosis that is taking place. Eventually, Stanley realizes that he may be the only human left amidst the new rhinoceros majority.
Charley Varrick, 1h51
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Felicia Farr, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Set Decoration
Rating74% 3.7474753.7474753.7474753.7474753.747475
Charley Varrick (Matthau) is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot. The aging trailer-park dweller has clearly not been too successful. Together with his wife Nadine and co-conspirators Al Dutcher and Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), a heavily disguised Varrick robs a bank in the rural crossroads community of Tres Cruces, New Mexico. During the robbery, two policemen and Dutcher are killed. Nadine drives the get-away car and eludes the police, but she, too, has been mortally wounded. Varrick distracts the police by blowing up the getaway car with black powder and gasoline, with his wife's body inside. He and Sullivan escape.
Pocket Money, 1h42
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers, Héctor Elizondo, Gregory Sierra
Roles Set Decoration
Rating54% 2.702572.702572.702572.702572.70257
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy known as Jim Kane (Newman) gets mixed up in some shady dealings with Stretch Russell (Rogers) and Bill Garrett (Martin), a crooked rancher. Russell tells Kane to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico to the United States for a good sum of money. Kane agrees and brings along his friend Leonard (Marvin) to aid him. Unfortunately, the two come upon many unexpected events that often deter them from completing their job.
A Gunfight
A Gunfight (1971)
, 1h29
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Dana Elcar, Robert J. Wilke
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.1447653.1447653.1447653.1447653.144765
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money.
The Molly Maguires, 2h4
Directed by Martin Ritt, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Bethel Leslie, Anthony Zerbe
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.394933.394933.394933.394933.39493
The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of Irish coal miners established in nineteenth century Pennsylvania to fight oppressive mineowners. Led by Jack Kehoe (Sean Connery), they plant dynamite to destroy plant shafts and equipment. As character James McParlan, Richard Harris portrays real life Pinkerton Detective James McParland who was employed to infiltrate the Mollies.
In Enemy Country, 1h47
Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid, Tom Bell, Michael Constantine
Roles Set Decoration
Rating56% 2.8121352.8121352.8121352.8121352.812135
Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, des espions américains faisant partie du Département d'État sont chargés de détruire un nouveau type de torpille dont le centre de recherche se trouve caché en France.
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, 2h6
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.4958853.4958853.4958853.4958853.495885
A Russian submarine called Спрут ("Octopus") draws too close to the New England coast one morning when its captain (Theodore Bikel) wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near the fictional Gloucester Island, which, from other references in the movie, is located off the coast of Cape Ann or Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party, headed by his zampolit (Political Officer) Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to find a motor launch to help free the submarine from the bar. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker (Carl Reiner), a vacationing playwright from New York City. Whittaker is eager to get his wife Elspeth (Eva Marie Saint) and two children, obnoxious but precocious nine and half-year-old Pete (Sheldon Collins) and three-year-old Annie (Cindy Putnam), off the island now that summer is over.
Law of the Lawless, 1h27
Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot, Jody McCrea
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.0015753.0015753.0015753.0015753.001575
Big Tom Stone runs a Kansas town in 1889. His son Pete is jailed for the murder of a man named Stapleton, and into town to oversee the trial rides the circuit judge, Clem Rogers.
Cheyenne Autumn, 2h34
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Dolores del Río, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.349083.349083.349083.349083.34908
In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalban) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland) led over three hundred starved and weary Cheyenne from their reservation in the Oklahoma territory to their traditional home in Wyoming. The US government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe. As the press misrepresents the natives' motives and goals for their trek as malicious, Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz (Edward G. Robinson) tries to prevent violence from erupting between the army and the natives. Also featured are James Stewart as Wyatt Earp, Dolores del Río as "Spanish Woman" and Carroll Baker as a pacifist Quaker school teacher and Archer's love interest.
McLintock!
McLintock! (1963)
, 2h7
Directed by John Wayne, Yvonne De Carlo, Maureen O'Hara, Andrew V. McLaglen, Patrick Wayne, James Edward Grant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Set Decoration
Rating70% 3.54623.54623.54623.54623.5462
Cattle baron George Washington "G.W." McLintock (John Wayne) is living the single life on his ranch. He is estranged from wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), who left him two years before, suspecting him of adultery.
Donovan's Reef, 1h49
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.346433.346433.346433.346433.34643
The film is a morality play in the guise of an action/comedy. It deals harshly (though not in an obvious way) with issues of racial bigotry, corporate connivance and greed, American beliefs of societal "superiority" and hypocrisy (i.e., the Boston shipping company considers carrying rum to be immoral, so they euphemistically refer to it as "West Indies goods"). Otherwise, Donovan's Reef is a light-hearted movie made in a period conforming, formulaic and sweetly naive manner (see "Critical Reception", below).
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 2h3
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
Roles Set Decoration
Rating80% 4.047734.047734.047734.047734.04773
Senator Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) arrive by train in the frontier town of Shinbone, in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). As they make their way toward the undertaker's establishment to pay their respects to the deceased, a reporter (Joseph Hoover) and his editor, Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young) approach and ask Stoddard to explain why a United States Senator would make the long journey from Washington just to attend the funeral of a local rancher.
Who's Got the Action?, 1h29
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Margo, Paul Ford
Roles Set Decoration
Rating55% 2.75712.75712.75712.75712.7571
The gambling habit of lawyer Steve Flood (Dean Martin) is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Melanie (Lana Turner), who initially suspects him of marital infidelity. When she learns about the gambling, Melanie talks Steve's law partner Clint Morgan (Eddie Albert), an old flame, into helping her act as a fictitious horse race bookie offering unusually attractive terms to clients.