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George Gaines is a Set Decoration and Makeup Artist American born on 6 june 1933 at Illinois (USA)

George Gaines

George Gaines
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 june 1933 at Illinois (USA)
Death 13 may 1986 (at 52 years)

George Gaines (6 June 1933 – 13 May 1986) was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.

Best films

Heaven Can Wait (1978)
(Set Decoration)
All the President's Men (1976)
(Set Decoration)
Shampoo (1975)
(Set Decoration)
The Big Chill (1983)
(Set Decoration)
Coming Home (1978)
(Set Decoration)
The Cotton Club (1984)
(Set Decoration)

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Filmography of George Gaines (20 films)

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Art

The Cotton Club, 2h7
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Jazz films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, James Remar
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.249793.249793.249793.249793.24979
A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.
City Heat
City Heat (1984)
, 1h33
Directed by Richard Benjamin, Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara
Roles Set Decoration
Rating55% 2.7505152.7505152.7505152.7505152.750515
In Kansas City, 1933, near the end of Prohibition, a police lieutenant known by his last name, Speer (Eastwood), is acquainted with a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy (Reynolds). Speer and Murphy were once good friends, which changed after Murphy left the force.
The Big Chill, 1h45
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place
Roles Set Decoration
Rating70% 3.5485053.5485053.5485053.5485053.548505
Harold Cooper (Kevin Kline) is bathing his young son when his wife, Sarah (Glenn Close), receives a phone call at their Richmond home telling her that their friend, Alex, has committed suicide by slashing his wrists in the bathtub of their vacation house in South Carolina, where he had been staying.
Frances
Frances (1983)
, 2h20
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Jonathan Banks, Jeffrey DeMunn, Allan Rich
Roles Set Decoration
Rating71% 3.5972153.5972153.5972153.5972153.597215
Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $100 in 1931 from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies. In 1935, she becomes controversial again when she wins (and accepts) an all-expenses-paid trip to the USSR to visit the Moscow Art Theatre. Determined to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to publicity stunts, and insists upon appearing on screen without makeup. She marries her first husband, Dwanye Steele, despite being advised not to, but cheats on him with alleged Communist Harry York on the night of her hometown's premiere of Come and Get It. Her defiance attracts the attention of Broadway playwright Clifford Odets, who convinces Frances that her future rests with the Group Theatre.
Breathless
Breathless (1983)
, 1h37
Directed by Jim McBride
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan, John P. Ryan
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.998692.998692.998692.998692.99869
Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere) is a cocky, nihilistic drifter in Las Vegas, obsessed with Marvel Silver Surfer comic books, the rock and roll music of Jerry Lee Lewis and Monica Poiccard (Valérie Kaprisky), a UCLA architecture undergraduate whom he knows only from a weekend fling in Vegas. As the film opens late at night, he steals a Porsche, intending to drive to Los Angeles. As he speeds down the highway and looks through the owner's possessions, he discovers a handgun in the vehicle's glovebox. Seeing his reckless driving, a policeman gives chase and Jesse is forced off the road and becomes stuck. When the policeman orders him to step away from the car, Lujack impulsively grabs the gun and (apparently accidentally) shoots the officer. Fleeing to Los Angeles, Lujack finds his picture splashed all over the newspaper and TV news as the "cop killer.
Uncommon Valor, 1h45
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Patrick Swayze, Reb Brown, Tim Thomerson, Robert Stack
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.149233.149233.149233.149233.14923
Taking place in the early 1980s and set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) is obsessed with finding his son Frank, listed as "Missing In Action" since 1972. After ten years of searching Southeast Asia and turning up several leads, Rhodes believes that Frank is still alive and being kept in Laos as a prisoner of war.
Partners
Partners (1982)
, 1h33
Directed by James Burrows
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan, Jay Robinson, Rick Jason, Denise Galik
Roles Set Decoration
Rating53% 2.6555852.6555852.6555852.6555852.655585
After a series of murders in Los Angeles's gay community, heterosexual police Sgt. Benson (O'Neal) is assigned to go undercover as half of a gay couple with Officer Kerwin (Hurt), a Records Clerk. Kerwin naively believes that he is closeted although the entire Department knows about his sexual identity. The pair discover an earlier murder and learn that both victims appeared in the same gay magazine. Each had received a call from a hoarse-voiced man asking them to model for him, only to turn up dead soon after. Benson models for the magazine and is approached by the same hoarse-voiced man; but, when another model turns up dead, the man is cleared as a suspect.
American Gigolo, 1h57
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Héctor Elizondo, Nina, Baroness van Pallandt, Bill Duke, K Callan
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.1479753.1479753.1479753.1479753.147975
Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles whose job supports his expensive taste in cars, stereophonic equipment and clothes. He is blatantly narcissistic and superficial; however, he claims to take some pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women.
The Hunter
The Hunter (1980)
, 1h37
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Action
Actors Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Richard Venture
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61% 3.0974653.0974653.0974653.0974653.097465
Ralph Thorson (Steve McQueen) est un chasseur de prime d'un autre temps. Quoique habile à pourchasser les repris de justice, il est peu en phase avec son époque. Au volant d'une voiture, c'est un véritable danger de la route. Sa maison ressemble davantage à un saloon qu'à un foyer. Tandis qu'il vaque à ses engagements, sa femme tente de l'intéresser à la naissance de leur enfant.
Prophecy
Prophecy (1979)
, 1h42
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Armand Assante, Richard A. Dysart, George Clutesi, Graham Jarvis
Roles Set Decoration
Rating55% 2.7500052.7500052.7500052.7500052.750005
Tracking two lost lumberjacks through the night, a rescue team nearly follows a hound over a cliff. Two men rappel down to retrieve the fallen hound, but they are killed. The third, hearing screams down below, rappels down to investigate, where he finds his team mates dead, only to be killed himself by an unseen entity.
Heaven Can Wait, 1h37
Directed by Warren Beatty, Craig R. Baxley, Buck Henry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, American football films, Ghost films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.447423.447423.447423.447423.44742
Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty), a backup quarterback for the American football team Los Angeles Rams, is looking forward to leading his team to the Super Bowl. While riding his bicycle through the Mulholland Drive tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles, he collides with a truck. An over-anxious guardian angel (Buck Henry) on his first assignment plucks Joe out of his body early, in the mistaken belief that his death is imminent, and Pendleton arrives in the afterlife.
Coming Home, 2h7
Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72% 3.647533.647533.647533.647533.64753
In the spring of 1968 in California, Sally (Jane Fonda), a loyal and conservative military wife, is married to Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), a captain in the United States Marine Corps who is about to be deployed to Vietnam. As a dedicated military officer, Bob sees it primarily as an opportunity for progress. At first, Sally dreads being left alone, but after a while she feels liberated. Forced to find housing off the base she moves into a new apartment by the beach and buys a sports car. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veterans' hospital. This, in part, is motivated by her bohemian friend Vi Munson (Penelope Milford), whose brother Billy has come home after just two weeks in Vietnam with grave emotional problems and now resides in the VA hospital.
Marathon Man, 2h5
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Richard Bright
Roles Set Decoration
Rating73% 3.698413.698413.698413.698413.69841
Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is a history Ph.D. candidate and avid runner. Levy is researching the same field as his father, who committed suicide after the Communist witch hunts of the Joseph McCarthy era ruined his reputation. Babe's brother Henry (Roy Scheider), known as "Doc", presents himself as an oil company executive but is really a government agent, involved in an elaborate network of couriers who transport diamonds stolen during World War II from wealthy Jews seeking to flee Germany, which are then sold on world markets for the secret benefit of fugitive Nazi war criminal Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier). Szell, a dentist who tortured Jews in a concentration camp, escaped capture and is now living off the diamond sales as a fugitive in South America (echoing real life Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele).
All the President's Men, 2h18
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Politique, Political films
Actors Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander
Roles Set Decoration
Rating78% 3.948323.948323.948323.948323.94832
In June 1972, a security guard (Frank Wills, playing himself) at the Watergate complex finds a door kept unlocked with tape. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters within the complex. The next morning, The Washington Post assigns new reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) to the local courthouse to cover the story, which is thought to be of minor importance.
The Fortune, 1h28
Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Ian Wolfe, Brian Avery, Florence Stanley
Roles Set Decoration
Rating55% 2.799582.799582.799582.799582.79958
Nicky Wilson (Beatty) and Oscar Sullivan (Nicholson) are inept 1920s scam artists who see pay dirt in the guise of Fredericka Quintessa Bigard (Stockard Channing), the millionaire heiress to a sanitary napkin fortune. She loves the already married Nicky, but because the Mann Act prohibits him from taking her across state lines and engaging in immoral relations, he proposes that she marry Oscar and then carry on an affair with the man she wants. Oscar, who is wanted for embezzlement and anxious to get out of town, is happy to comply with the plan, although he intends to claim his spousal privileges after they are wed.