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Gordon Wiles is a Director and Production Design American born on 10 october 1904 at St. Louis (USA)

Gordon Wiles

Gordon Wiles
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Nationality USA
Birth 10 october 1904 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 17 october 1950 (at 46 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Gordon Wiles (1902 – October 17, 1950) was an American art director and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Transatlantic.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Best films

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927)
(Art Department Manager) Transatlantic
Transatlantic
(1931)
(Art Direction)

Usually with

William K. Howard
William K. Howard
(3 films)
Herbert Mundin
Herbert Mundin
(4 films)
Hugo Friedhofer
Hugo Friedhofer
(4 films)
Lesley Selander
Lesley Selander
(3 films)
Arthur Lange
Arthur Lange
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gordon Wiles (30 films)

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Director

Ginger in the Morning
Ginger in the Morning (1973)
, 1h30
Directed by Gordon Wiles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Fred Ward, Monte Markham, Sissy Spacek, Mark Miller, Susan Oliver, Slim Pickens
Rating51% 2.5645752.5645752.5645752.5645752.564575
Un architecte de Santa Fe récemment divorcé est surpris de tomber amoureux d'un jeune auto-stoppeur à l'esprit libre.
The Gangster
The Gangster (1947)
, 1h24
Directed by Gordon Wiles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff, Harry Morgan, John Ireland
Rating64% 3.2405353.2405353.2405353.2405353.240535
Shubunka is a racketeer, at odds with Cornell, a rival. Shubunka has a girlfriend, Nancy Starr, a showgirl, and offers protection to a New York beachfront cafe owned by Nick Jammey.
The Gangster
The Gangster (1947)
, 1h24
Directed by Gordon Wiles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Morgan
Rating64% 3.2405353.2405353.2405353.2405353.240535
Shubunka (Barry Sullivan) exerce le métieur de racketteur dans un quartier de New York, aidé par son associé Nick Jamey (Akim Tamiroff). Pourtant, depuis bien trop longtemps, il délaisse ses affaires au profit de sa relation avec Nancy Starr (Belita), une chanteuse de cabaret. Son activité est ménacé par les ambitions d'un rival venant d'un quartier voisin, Cornell (Sheldon Leonard).
Forced Landing
Forced Landing (1941)
, 1h7
Directed by Gordon Wiles
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Richard Arlen, Nils Asther, J. Carrol Naish, Eva Gabor, Evelyn Brent, Mikhail Rasumny
Rating55% 2.7824452.7824452.7824452.7824452.782445
In faraway tropical Mosaque, as soon as American pilot Dan Kendall {Richard Arlen) joins the country's Air Corps, he is in trouble. Along with his mechanic Christmas (Mikhail Rasumny), he is thrown into the military prison. His troubles start at a cantina after buying exotic beauty Johanna Van Deuren (Eva Gabor) a drink, not realizing he has antagonized her fiancé, Colonel Jan Golas (Nils Asther). A fight breaks out, leading to the pilot's arrest.
Charlie Chan's Secret
Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
, 1h12
Directed by Gordon Wiles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Henrietta Crosman, Rosina Lawrence, Astrid Allwyn, Charles Quigley, Herbert Mundin
Rating69% 3.4951153.4951153.4951153.4951153.495115
Alan Colby, heir to a vast fortune, reappears after a seven-year absence, only to be murdered before he can claim his inheritance. The Lowells have been living off the Colby fortune, and now someone is trying to kill Henrietta Lowell, matriarch of the family. Among the suspects are:

Art

Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy (1950)
, 1h26
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Russ Tamblyn, Morris Carnovsky, Mickey Little, Harry Lewis
Roles Production Design
Rating75% 3.798033.798033.798033.798033.79803
At the age of 14, Bart Tare robs a hardware store and steals a gun. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby (Morris Carnovsky), despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination with guns even as a child. Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a pistol.
Dakota Lil
Dakota Lil (1950)
, 1h28
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert
Roles Production Design
Rating58% 2.906212.906212.906212.906212.90621
Tom, un agent secret à la recherche de bande de faussaires, gagne la confiance de l'un des instigateurs du gang.
The Underworld Story
The Underworld Story (1950)
, 1h31
Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea, Mary Anderson
Roles Art Direction
Rating69% 3.4887053.4887053.4887053.4887053.488705
When newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) loses his job at a big city paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from a gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm), who immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. When a local black woman is suspected, Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again. The film is notable for the pejorative use of the word "nigger", though this is clearly dubbed, not what was originally filmed.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
, 1h47
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Albert Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine, Warren William, Susan Douglas Rubes
Roles Production Design
Rating66% 3.340973.340973.340973.340973.34097
Paris, en 1880. Georges Duroy retrouve un ami, journaliste politique à La Vie française, Charles Forestier. Ils dînent ensemble chez le directeur du journal, Monsieur Walter. Ce dernier embauche Duroy qui prend des conseils d'écriture auprès de son ami. Celui-ci l'oriente vers sa femme, Madeleine, qui s'avère être le véritable auteur des articles du journaliste, ce dont se rend vite compte Duroy. Désormais surnommé "Bel Ami", Georges devient l'amant de Clotilde de Marelle, rencontrée au dîner, qui comprend vite qu'il est un séducteur. Après le décès de Charles Forestier atteint de tuberculose, Georges épouse sa veuve et profite à son tour de ses talents de chroniqueuse.
A Scandal in Paris
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
, 1h40
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart, Alma Kruger
Roles Production Design
Rating65% 3.2930853.2930853.2930853.2930853.293085
The rogue (George Sanders) who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and out of jail. As the story begins, he and his cutpurse cellmate and associate, Emile Vernet (Akim Tamiroff), escape using a file hidden in a birthday cake provided by Vernet's aunt Ernestine.