Carmen Dillon
Carmen Dillon ( born October 25, 1908 in London Cricklewood, † April 12, 2000 in Hove ) was a British architect and designer in the high-class entertainment film cinema.
Life and work
Carmen Dillon, one of the few women in the ( British ) Film Architecture, was one of the most outstanding representatives of the British cinema designs. She had studied in her hometown of London Architecture and incidentally acted in amateur plays as a performer and also designed the screenshots. Your first experience as an architect, she gained in various architectural offices of the British capital.
1934 Carmen Dillon came to the movie, where she began as an assistant to the production designer Ralph Brinton. Especially for the companies Two Cities and rank them was active. Her stage experience was primarily Dillon. Among the projects of construction for Laurence Olivier's ambitious Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III use; Movies that made suddenly famous and Carmen Dillon. But other careful literary adaptations ( is his conflict of the heart, Earnest ) and various substances in historical garb (Robin Hood and his Merrie Men, A princess falls in love, The Royal Rebel ) and a long series of more or less successful comedies, including various productions of the Carry-on ... film series, provided them with a steady hand style.
After the decorations to George Cukor's fussy television dramas love in the twilight and the grain is green retired Carmen Dillon, who received an Oscar for her work on Olivier's Hamlet film, into private life.