Ernst Fegté

Ernst swept ( born September 28, 1900 in Hamburg, † December 15, 1976 in Los Angeles, California ) was a German production designer who won an Oscar for Best Production Design.

Biography

After his immigration swept in the mid- 1920s, production designer on the film industry and worked for the first time in the silent film Cupid in Skyscrapers ( 1925) by Paul Sloane with. Throughout his career, he was involved in the development of around 100 movies.

At the Academy Awards in 1944, he was next to Hans Dreier and Bertram C. Granger nominated for the first time for an Oscar for Best Production Design at the black and white film Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943). In 1945 along with Howard Bristol an Oscar nomination for Best Production Design in the color film The corsair (1944 ) by David Butler.

In 1946 he received together with Hans Dreier and Sam Comer Academy Award for Best Production Design for the color film The Pirate and the Lady (1944 ) by Mitchell Leisen.

He finally received his last nomination at the Academy Awards in 1951 along with George Sawley for the color film Destination Moon (1950 ) by Irving Pichel.

Other famous movies he designed stage sets and as an art director were The general died at dawn (1936 ) by Lewis Milestone, where he was responsible with the also German-born Hans Dreier for the equipment here, The Lady Eve (1941 ) Preston Sturges My wife, the Witch (1942 ) by René Clair and again in collaboration with Hans Dreier, sensation in Morgan 's Creek (1944 ) by P. Sturges, the Last weekend ( 1945) by René Clair and the Black Rider ( 1947) by James Edward Grant.

He also worked from the 1950s and at the facilities of television series with such as The Adventures of Superman ( 1952-1953 ) or Sergeant Preston (1958).