Assheton Gorton

Assheton St. G. Gorton (* July 10, 1930 in Sedbergh, Cumbria, United Kingdom) is a British art director.

Life and work

Hailing from the North West of England Gorton graduated at King's College (Cambridge) to study architecture. At the Slade School of Fine Art, he made continues. His first professional undertook Gorton as a painter and decorator, and later he worked as a commercial artist. An framed by him for the Continental Airways commercial was awarded a prize.

1956 Gorton moved to television and created for the ABC Weekend Television program the screenshots to the series Armchair Theatre. Since the mid-1960s Assheton Gorton designed primarily for the movie. Since he undertook The Knack by Richard Lester for the modern time frame the architectural design, Gorton has presented a quantitatively small oeuvre, which is nevertheless almost throughout ambitious and high class. His early works, such as the photographer thriller Blow Up or pop culture gimmick Magic Christian made ​​him an important member of the Swinging Sixties cinema of his country. In later years Assheton Gorton concentrated more and more on the features sumptuous images arches and Ausstattungsepen as the historical drama Revolution with Al Pacino and the fantasy film Legend with the young Tom Cruise.

His work for The Knack and for Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow -Up were nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes. His Filmbauten to The French Lieutenant's received an Academy Award nomination.

Filmography ( complete)

Films, if not otherwise stated