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Lyle Wheeler is a Production Design American born on 12 february 1905 at Woburn (USA)
Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, (born February 2, 1905 in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. died January 10, 1990 in Woodland Hills, California, USA), was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director.
Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer. In 1936 he was hired by David O. Selznick to work as a set designer for Selznick's motion picture production company. Wheeler proved to be a creative genius when it came to designing quality sets at reasonable costs and was very much in demand in the industry. By the end of World War II, Wheeler had joined Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, where he remained as chief art director until the end of the 1950s.
In a career spanning forty years, Wheeler created sets for more than three hundred and fifty motion pictures, many of which are considered film classics. His credits include A Star is Born, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, State Fair, The Dolly Sisters, Forever Amber, The Fan, The Pride of St. Louis, The Seven Year Itch, and Carousel. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction twenty-nine times, winning five. In 1951, he was nominated for four different films, three in 1952 and twice for two films in one year.
On his death in 1990, Wheeler was cremated, and his ashes stored in the vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. His Oscar statuettes were unknowingly bought by the purchaser of a sealed carton at a storage facility default sale months before his death.
Au cours d'une carrière de plus de 40 ans, Wheeler a été chargé de la direction artistique de plus de trois-cent cinquante films dont beaucoup sont considérés comme des classiques, comme Une étoile est née, Le Lys de Brooklyn, Les Dolly Sisters, Ambre, Niagara, Sept Ans de réflexion...
Il remporta à cinq reprises l'Oscar des meilleurs décors pour lequel il fut nommé à vingt-neuf reprises. En 1951, il fut nommé pour quatre films, trois en 1952 et deux autres années pour deux films.
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(1963)
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Birth name Lyle Reynolds Wheeler
Nationality USA
Birth 12 february 1905 at Woburn (USA)
Death 10 january 1990 (at 84 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 12 february 1905 at Woburn (USA)
Death 10 january 1990 (at 84 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, (born February 2, 1905 in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. died January 10, 1990 in Woodland Hills, California, USA), was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director.
Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer. In 1936 he was hired by David O. Selznick to work as a set designer for Selznick's motion picture production company. Wheeler proved to be a creative genius when it came to designing quality sets at reasonable costs and was very much in demand in the industry. By the end of World War II, Wheeler had joined Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, where he remained as chief art director until the end of the 1950s.
In a career spanning forty years, Wheeler created sets for more than three hundred and fifty motion pictures, many of which are considered film classics. His credits include A Star is Born, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, State Fair, The Dolly Sisters, Forever Amber, The Fan, The Pride of St. Louis, The Seven Year Itch, and Carousel. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction twenty-nine times, winning five. In 1951, he was nominated for four different films, three in 1952 and twice for two films in one year.
On his death in 1990, Wheeler was cremated, and his ashes stored in the vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. His Oscar statuettes were unknowingly bought by the purchaser of a sealed carton at a storage facility default sale months before his death.
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Après des études à la University of Southern California, il travaille comme graphiste pour un magazine et comme designer industriel. En 1936, il est engagé comme scénographe par David O. Selznick pour son studio de cinéma, Selznick International Pictures. Il s'y révèle talentueux, créant des scénographies de qualité à des coûts raisonnables, ce qui en fait rapidement un directeur artistique demandé par l'industrie du film.Au cours d'une carrière de plus de 40 ans, Wheeler a été chargé de la direction artistique de plus de trois-cent cinquante films dont beaucoup sont considérés comme des classiques, comme Une étoile est née, Le Lys de Brooklyn, Les Dolly Sisters, Ambre, Niagara, Sept Ans de réflexion...
Il remporta à cinq reprises l'Oscar des meilleurs décors pour lequel il fut nommé à vingt-neuf reprises. En 1951, il fut nommé pour quatre films, trois en 1952 et deux autres années pour deux films.
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Perfect Gentlemen (1978)
Directed by Jackie Cooper
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Lauren Bacall, Ruth Gordon, Sandy Dennis, Lisa Pelikan, Robert Alda, Stephen Pearlman
Roles Production Design
Rating65%
A story about three women with totally different backgrounds who share a common bond in that each needs a large sum of money and each has a husband serving time at a maximum security prison. Lizzie Martin (Lauren Bacall) has been instructed by her husband Ed (Robert Alda) to deliver a $1 million bribe in order to get him an instant parole; however, when she learns he has been having an affair with his secretary, Lizzie wants to disappear but fears for her life if she doesn't carry out his instructions.
Posse (1975)
, 1h32Directed by Kirk Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew, David Canary
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64%
Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas), a U.S. marshal, leads an elite uniformed posse to track down and capture the infamous bank robber Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern), in an effort to further his political career when running for United States Senator. Strawhorn disrupts his plans when he kidnaps Nightingale. He demands a ransom of $40,000 from the posse for Nightingale's safe return—the same amount of money that the posse burned when tracking Strawhorn down and killing his gang. In order to raise the money, Nightingale's posse have to rob the town, thus turning the public against Nightingale.
Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
, 1h39Directed by Jackie Cooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Stella Stevens, Gary Lockwood, Lee Purcell, Loretta Swit, Héctor Elizondo
Roles Production Design
Rating45%
Doctors' Wives (1971)
, 1h41Directed by George Schaefer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Dyan Cannon, Gene Hackman, Carroll O'Connor, Richard Crenna, Rachel Roberts, Janice Rule
Roles Production Design
Rating46%
While playing cards with her girlfriends, all of whom suspect their doctor husbands of having affairs, Lorrie Dellman volunteers to seduce each of them to find out more.
The Love Machine (1971)
, 1h48Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Maureen Arthur
Roles Production Design
Rating47%
Robin Stone works at a powerful TV network doing the news. He encounters an array of women, among them Judith Austin, the wife of a network executive. Judith asks her husband Greg to promote Robin and he does so. Robin and Judith then get into an extramarital affair while her husband is in the hospital for cardiac care.
The Love Machine (1971)
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Edith Atwater
Roles Production Design
Rating47%
Robin Stone a d'autres ambitions que de présenter le JT. Beau gosse auquel nulle femme ne résiste, c'est sur Judith Austin qu'il jette son dévolu. Pour sa beauté bien sûr, mais surtout parce qu'elle est la femme du président d'une chaîne de télévision. Il espère bien qu'elle va l'aider à faire s'envoler sa carrière.
, 1h53Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Liza Minnelli, Robert Moore, Ken Howard, James Coco, Kay Thompson, Fred Williamson
Roles Production Design
Rating60%
The film stars Liza Minnelli as the title character Junie Moon, a girl whose face is scarred in a vicious battery acid attack by her boyfriend (Ben Piazza). Later in an institution, she meets a man with epilepsy (Ken Howard), and a gay paraplegic who uses a wheelchair (Robert Moore). Disabled, but not down, they live together in an older, rented house and bond, determined to prove themselves and to help each other.
Marooned (1969)
, 2h14Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about music and musicians, Dans l'espace, Films about the Apollo program, Films based on science fiction novels, Musical films, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant
Roles Production Design
Rating59%
Three American astronauts – commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), "Buzz" Lloyd (Gene Hackman), and Clayton "Stoney" Stone (James Franciscus) – are the first crew of an experimental space station on an extended duration mission. While returning to Earth, the main engine on the Apollo spacecraft Ironman One fails. Mission Control determines that Ironman does not have enough backup thruster capability to initiate atmospheric reentry, or to re-dock with the station and wait for rescue. The crew is marooned in orbit.
, 1h33Directed by James Neilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Dolores Sutton, Milton Berle
Roles Production Design
Rating62%
The story depicts the rivalry between the conservative Mother Superior (Russell) and the glamorous, progressive young Sister George (Stevens) as they shepherd a busload of Catholic high school girls across America to an interfaith youth rally being held in Santa Barbara, California. As they debate expressions of faith and role of the Church in the tumultuous America of the sixties, they must also contend with the antics of two rebellious, trouble-prone students, Rosabelle (Susan Saint James) and Marvel Anne (Barbara Hunter).
The Big Mouth (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Harold J. Stone, Buddy Lester, Jeannine Riley, Susan Bay, Frank De Vol
Roles Production Design
Rating55%
Gerald Clamson (Lewis) is a bank examiner who loves fishing on his annual two week holiday. Unfortunately one day at the ocean he reels in an injured gangster in a scuba diving suit named Syd Valentine (also played by Lewis). Syd tells Gerald about diamonds he has stolen from the other gangsters and hands him a map. Gerald escapes as frogmen from a yacht machine gun the beach. They swim ashore and locate Syd where they machine gun him. Their leader Thor (Harold J. Stone) ensures Syd's demise by firing a torpedo from his yacht that goes ashore, blowing a crater into the beach.
In Harm's Way (1965)
, 2h45Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Tom Tryon
Roles Production Design
Rating71%
John Wayne stars as U.S. Navy Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey, a divorced "second generation Navy" son of a career Chief Petty Officer. A Naval Academy graduate and career officer, Torrey is removed from command of his heavy cruiser for "throwing away the book" when pursuing the enemy and then being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kirk Douglas portrays Torrey's executive officer, Commander (later Captain) Paul Eddington, a wayward sort of career officer who has resigned as a naval aviator and returned to the surface navy because of an unhappy marriage. His wife's numerous affairs and drunken escapades have become the talk of Honolulu and her death during the Pearl Harbor attack—in the company of an Army Air Corps Officer (Hugh O'Brian), with whom she had just had a wild fling on a local beach—drives Eddington into a bar brawl with a group of other Army Air Corps officers, a subsequent stint in the Pearl Harbor brig, and exile as the "... officer in charge of piers and warehouses ..." in what he calls a "backwater island purgatory.
The Best Man (1964)
, 1h42Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy, Margaret Leighton, Edie Adams, Ann Sothern
Roles Production Design
Rating75%
William Russell (Fonda) and Joe Cantwell (Robertson) are the two leading candidates for the presidential nomination of an unspecified political party. Both have potentially fatal vulnerabilities.
The Cardinal (1963)
, 2h55Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Tom Tryon, Raf Vallone, Jill Haworth, John Saxon, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley
Roles Production Design
Rating66%
A newly ordained Irish Catholic priest, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) returns home to Boston in 1917. He discovers that his parents are upset about daughter Mona (Carol Lynley) having become engaged to marry a Jewish boy, Benny Rampell (John Saxon). Mona seeks Stephen's counsel as a priest.
Advise & Consent (1962)
, 2h19Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Politic
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney
Roles Production Design
Rating76%
The President of the United States (Franchot Tone) nominates Robert A. Leffingwell (Henry Fonda) as Secretary of State. The second-term President, who unbeknownst to the public is ill, has chosen Leffingwell because he does not believe that Vice President Harley Hudson (Lew Ayres)—someone he and others generally tolerate or ignore—could successfully continue the administration's foreign policy should he die.
Wild River (1960)
, 1h50Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical, Romance
Actors Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen, James Westerfield
Roles Art Direction
Rating74%
In the early 1930s, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) arrives in Garthville, Tennessee, upstream from a newly constructed hydroelectric dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority, to head the TVA's land purchasing office after its previous supervisor abruptly quit. He has the responsibility for supervising the clearing of land to be flooded but must first acquire Garth Island on the Tennessee River, the last piece of property yet to be sold to the government. The previous supervisor was unable to convince the elderly Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), matriarch of a large family that has lived on the island for decades, to sell her land to the government, which to avoid bad publicity the TVA wants to acquire without using force. The clearing of the land for the coming lake is also proceeding behind schedule because the local mayor, the town's barber, uses only white labor. Chuck crosses the ferry to Garth Island but Ella and the other Garth women, including Ella's granddaughter Carol Baldwin (Lee Remick), refuse to listen to him. He tries to reason with Ella's three grown sons, Hamilton (Jay C. Flippen), Cal (James Westerfield), and Joe John, but being relocated means working for a living and they have never worked in their lives. Joe John tosses Chuck into the river. Hamilton comes to Chuck's room soon after to invite him to the island for a formal apology and to speak with Ella.