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John Graysmark is a Production Design American born on 26 march 1935

John Graysmark

John Graysmark
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 march 1935
Death 10 october 2010 (at 75 years)

John Graysmark (March 26, 1935 – October 10, 2010) was a British production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Graysmark was involved with film from an early age, through his father, who was construction co-ordinator at Elstree Studios. Graysmark attended a specialist building and architectural school from the age of 13, then worked in architecture for five
years. At the age of 21, through his father, Graysmark found work on his first film, Anastasia, as a draughtsman.

Benefiting from his father's advice and contacts, within 5 years Graysmark had met or worked with the leading British film designers or art directors of the time, including John Box, Ken Adam, Don Ashton, Geoff Drake and Tony Masters.

During 20 years in the art department, Graysmark worked on such films as Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, 2001, Young Winston (which earned him an Oscar nomination), The Man With The Golden Gun and Escape to Athena.

Ragtime (1981) was a turning point in Graysmark's career, the first film he did with the title production designer. Having worked for producer Dino de Laurentiis on 1980's Flash Gordon as supervising art director, under Italian designers Ferdinando Scarfiotti and Danilo Donati, Graysmark was later contacted by de Laurentiis, who offered him Ragtime as designer. Graysmark received another Oscar nomination for designing the movie's New York 1906 setting.

Best films

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
(Production Design)
Courage Under Fire (1996)
(Production Design)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
(Co-Art Director)
Firefox (1982)
(Art Direction)
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
(Production Design)
Flash Gordon (1980)
(Supervising Art Director)

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Filmography of John Graysmark (25 films)

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Art

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, 1h57
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Israel Aduramo
Roles Production Design
Rating51% 2.554372.554372.554372.554372.55437
Many years before the events in The Exorcist, the young Father Lankester Merrin (played by Skarsgård, who played the same part in Exorcist: The Beginning) travels to East Africa. Merrin has taken a sabbatical from the Church and devoted himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith. He is haunted especially by an incident in a small village in occupied Holland during World War II, where he served as parish priest. Near the end of the war, a sadistic Nazi SS commander, in retaliation for the murder of a German trooper, forces Merrin to participate in arbitrary executions in order to save a full village from slaughter.
Down
Down (2001)
, 1h50
Directed by Dick Maas
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Transport films
Actors James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Michael Ironside, Edward Herrmann, Dan Hedaya, Ron Perlman
Roles Production Design
Rating47% 2.357892.357892.357892.357892.35789
The film takes place at the Millennium building in New York City, which has 102 floors and 73 elevators. One evening, lightning strikes the building, which causes the elevators to begin acting strangely, resulting in a guard's flashlight being crushed. The next day, a group of pregnant women are held up between floors 20 and 21. The elevator overheats rapidly, causing two women to give birth and hospitalizing the rest. Reporter Jennifer Evans (Naomi Watts) is called to write a report on the incident. After an investigation by METEOR elevator company technicians Jeff (Eric Thal) and Mark Newman (James Marshall), they determine that nothing is wrong with the elevators, a large part being Jeff's inability to actually admit there is something wrong (he states throughout his scenes that the computer controlling the elevators has absolutely no defects).
Courage Under Fire, 1h57
Directed by Edward Zwick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Scott Glenn, Michael Moriarty
Roles Production Design
Rating65% 3.2991153.2991153.2991153.2991153.299115
While serving in the Gulf War, Lt Col Serling (Denzel Washington) accidentally destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing night-time battle, killing his friend Cpt Boylar. The US Army covers up the details and transfers Serling to a desk job.
Blown Away
Blown Away (1994)
, 2h1
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Forest Whitaker, Lloyd Bridges, John Finn
Roles Production Design
Rating61% 3.0999653.0999653.0999653.0999653.099965
Irish terrorist Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) escapes from his cell in a castle prison in Northern Ireland, killing a guard and his cellmate in the process, after turning a toilet into a bomb.
So I Married an Axe Murderer, 1h30
Directed by Thomas Schlamme
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Michael Richards
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2480953.2480953.2480953.2480953.248095
Charlie McKenzie (Myers) is a beat poet living in San Francisco, after having broken up with yet another woman based on paranoid perception. His friend Tony, a policeman, point out that Charlie simply is afraid of commitment and tries to think of or invent any reason to break up with someone.
White Sands, 1h41
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh, James Rebhorn
Roles Production Design
Rating59% 2.999312.999312.999312.999312.99931
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico Deputy Sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, they find a digested piece of paper with a phone number; Dolezal, posing as Spenser, calls the number and goes to a meeting, where he is robbed and instructed to meet Gorman Lennox at a restaurant. FBI agent Greg Meeker intercepts Dolezal and informs him that Spenser was really an undercover agent. Now that Dolezal has lost the money, Meeker suggests he continue posing as Spenser to either recover the money or help arrest Lennox.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 2h23
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film, Political films
Actors Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alan Rickman, Michael McShane
Roles Production Design
Rating68% 3.449963.449963.449963.449963.44996
Robin of Locksley (Costner), an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart, King of England in the Third Crusade, is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade Peter. After witnessing an amputation at the hand of the Ayyubid prison guards, Robin escapes, saving the life of a Moor named Azeem (Freeman) in the process, Robin, Peter and Azeem escape through a sewer and climb up into a alley but Peter is shot by an archer while escaping and has Robin swear to protect his sister Marian (Mastrantonio). Peter then grabs a scimitar and attacks an Ayyubid patrol giving Robin and Azeem enough time to to run down a small closed market. Azeem then grabs a fruit from one of the market stands and gives half of it to Robin and after nearly being spotted by a Ayyubid soldier and with the whole town on a lookout for them Robin and Azeem escape. Robin returns to England with Azeem, who has vowed to accompany him until the debt of saving his life is repaid.
White Hunter, Black Heart, 1h52
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about films, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson, Charlotte Cornwell
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2479153.2479153.2479153.2479153.247915
In the early 1950s, world-renowned film maker John Wilson (Eastwood), travels to Africa for his next film bringing with him a young writer chum named Pete Verrill (Jeff Fahey). While there, he becomes obsessed with hunting elephants while neglecting the preparations for the film. This leads to a conflict between the men on several levels, most notably over the idea of killing for sport such a grand animal. Even Wilson concedes that it is so wrong that it is not just a crime against nature, but a "sin." Yet he cannot overcome his desire to bring down a giant bull, a "tusker" with massive ivory tusks. Wilson's final realization that his is a petty, ignoble pursuit comes at a late point and with a tragic price, as the local expert guide Kivu (Boy Mathias Chuma) is killed protecting him from an elephant Wilson decides not to shoot.
Gorillas in the Mist, 2h9
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Assassinat, Environmental films, Politique, Films about apes, Political films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Glen, Iain Cuthbertson, Constantin Alexandrov
Roles Production Design
Rating69% 3.499693.499693.499693.499693.49969
Physical therapist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is inspired by the anthropologist Louis Leakey (Iain Cuthbertson) to devote her life to the study of primates. To this end, she writes ceaselessly to him for a job cataloguing and studying the rare mountain gorillas of Africa. With some effort, she manages to convince Leakey of her conviction and devotion to the cause at hand after personally approaching him following a lecture in Louisville, Kentucky, on his part in 1966. Thereafter, Fossey embarks into the Congo, where Leakey and his foundation equip her with the necessary equipment and housing to achieve personal contact with the gorillas, and introduce her to a local animal tracker, Sembagare (John Omirah Miluwi), to assist her in her endeavors. Settling deep in the jungle, Fossey and Sembagare manage to locate a troop of gorillas, but they are ultimately displaced by the events of the Congo Crisis after being forcibly evicted from their research site by Congolese soldiers, who accuse Fossey of being a foreign spy and agitator.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, 1h27
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about writers, Films about education, Films about children, Space adventure films, Films about journalists, Sur la Lune, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about school violence
Actors Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker
Roles Production Design
Rating37% 1.8597251.8597251.8597251.8597251.859725
Superman saves a spaceship of cosmonauts whose ship was thrown off course by debris, then visits his home-town of Smallville as Clark. Now that his adoptive parents have died, Clark has inherited their now-unattended farm. In an empty barn, he uncovers the capsule that brought him to Earth, and removes a luminescent green Kryptonian energy module. A recording left by his mother Lara (voiced by Susannah York) states that its power can be used only once. Unwilling to sell the farm to a mall developer, Superman returns to Metropolis.
Duet for One, 1h47
Directed by Andreï Kontchalovski
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Cathryn Harrison, Margaret Courtenay
Roles Production Design
Rating66% 3.340553.340553.340553.340553.34055
Stephanie Anderson (Julie Andrews) is suffering from multiple sclerosis and she is slipping into the depths of depression. She begins seeing a psychiatrist (Max von Sydow) and despises him for not being able to feel her pain. Her conductor husband (Alan Bates) is also drifting away from her, having an affair with his secretary. Stephanie shuts herself away from the world, once locking her door and replaying her old concert tapes, watching despairingly as her on-screen self plays music that she will never be able to create again. She attempts suicide but fails when her maid rescues her. Soon, however, she comes to terms with the facts of her bitter end and realizes that life must go on.
Club Paradise, 1h35
Directed by Harold Ramis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Twiggy, Adolph Caesar, Eugene Levy
Roles Production Design
Rating51% 2.5513352.5513352.5513352.5513352.551335
Jack Moniker (Robin Williams) is a Chicago firefighter who gets injured on the job. Using his disability money, he decides to retire and live the good life in a small Caribbean island called Saint Nicholas. He buys a small amount of property there and lives among other washed-up personalities such as Anthony Croyden Hayes (Peter O'Toole). Appointed by the British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, Hayes is more concerned with vacationing than governing. Miss Phillipa Lloyd (Twiggy), who is visiting St. Nicholas with some sailor friends of hers, decides to stay permanently and becomes Jack's girlfriend in the process. He playfully refers to her as "Miss Philadelphia".
The Bounty
The Bounty (1984)
, 2h12
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson
Roles Production Design
Rating69% 3.4973353.4973353.4973353.4973353.497335
The film is set as flashbacks from the court martial at Greenwich of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers led by his friend Fletcher Christian (Mel Gibson) during its expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean.
Firefox
Firefox (1982)
, 1h59
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey, Nigel Hawthorne
Roles Art Direction
Rating59% 2.950982.950982.950982.950982.95098
A joint Anglo-American plot is devised to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft (MiG-31, NATO code name "Firefox") which is capable of Mach 6, is invisible to radar, and carries weapons controlled by thought. Former United States Air Force Major Mitchell Gant (Eastwood), a Vietnam veteran and former POW, infiltrates the Soviet Union, aided by his ability to speak Russian (due to his having had a Russian mother) and a network of Jewish dissidents and sympathizers, three of whom are key scientists working on the fighter itself. His goal is to steal the Firefox and fly it back to friendly territory for analysis.
Ragtime
Ragtime (1981)
, 2h35
Directed by Miloš Forman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique
Actors James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Howard Rollins
Roles Production Design
Rating72% 3.64693.64693.64693.64693.6469
The film begins with a newsreel montage, depicting celebrities of the turn of the 20th century such as Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and the architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer), as well as life in New York. The newsreel is accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.). The millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw (Robert Joy), who makes a scene when White's latest creation, a nude statue on the roof of Madison Square Garden, is unveiled. The model for the statue is Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), a former chorus girl who is now Thaw's wife. Thaw becomes convinced White has corrupted Evelyn and humiliated him, and publicly shoots White, killing him.