Franz Bachelin
Franz Nicholas Bachelin ( born November 10, 1895 in Sinsheim, † 26 May 1980 Pacific Palisades ) was a German - French art director in Hollywood.
Life and work
Franz Nicholas Bachelin was a member of a squadron in the First World War. After his discharge into civilian life, he studied architecture until he emigrated in 1928 via Cuba to the United States.
In Los Angeles, he was in 1937 set by the production company Paramount as art director. Until the mid- 1940s Bachelin was only involved in smaller productions. After he paid, usually in collaboration with a colleague, known partly films, including various Wilhelm Dieterle productions, some Dean Martin / Jerry Lewis comedies and equipment intensive historical, biblical and literary adaptations such as war and peace, " ruler of the seas " and " The Book of Ruth. "
In later years Bachelin had also worked for television. He attended the mid-1960s as one of several architects for the decorations of the television series Batman and in this function also in the Theatrical Version Batman holds the world in suspense, his last film, involved.