Syd Cain

Sidney B. " Syd " Cain ( born April 16, 1918 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England; † November 21, 2011 in London) was a British art director and storyboard designer, mainly active in the genre of turbulent action, war and adventure cinemas as well as in some James Bond movies.

Life

Sidney B. Cain had his artistic armor at London Polytechnic School of Art received before he was drafted in 1939. In 1940 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force, but was soon dismissed again as a result of a serious injury. Then Cain went to the British colony of Rhodesia, where he served as an Air Force instructor.

In 1944, he began working as a draftsman for the film company Gaumont British. 1956 Cain became the art director assistant, where he worked for colleagues such as Alex Vetchinsky, Tom Morahan and John Box (eg dying in No Time, and Our Man in Havana ) worked. Since 1960, Cain worked regularly as a chief designer. He was responsible for the decorations of the first Bond adventure, Dr. No and a few other inserts of the 007 super agent. Became famous his bizarre gimmicks to From Russia with Love, where he, inter alia, the shoe with the switchblade the KGB agent Rosa Klebb (played by Lotte Lenya ) and the versatile special case Bonds created.

A few years later, Cain designed the decorations for the last adventure of Bond faux Harry Palmer, the billion-dollar brain to François Truffaut's futuristic vision of horror Fahrenheit 451, to Alfred Hitchcock's eerily amusing late work Frenzy and most recently also to a number of quite speculative, martial and intellectual mercenary little finely - action movies.

After his gradual retirement from the field of film design Cain began to write stories for children. Nevertheless, he remained the film continues to pose and participated as a storyboard designer at major U.S. productions as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Muppets Christmas story but also the first Bond adventure featuring Pierce Brosnan Goldeneye.

Filmography (selection)

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