Edward Carfagno

Edward C. Carfagno ( born November 28, 1907 in Los Angeles, California, † December 28, 1996 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American art director in the classic Hollywood entertainment cinema of the 1940s to the 1980s.

Life and work

Carfagno had studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles before he came in 1933 as an illustrator and draftsman for Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer Company. In this role he was also 1938/39, involved in the fantasy classic The Wizard of Oz. In 1942, he finally rose later on as chief architect.

Shortly thereafter, in the late 1940s, Carfagno was looking gorgeous big productions like the recent Astaire - Rogers musical dancers from Broadway and the Esther Williams water Revue Neptune's Daughter is a recognized specialist for opulent, plush furnishing fabrics. Therefore, he was given the job in 1949 to design the sets for MGM monumental production Quo Vadis. The moral image of ancient Rome with the persecution of the early Christians as an action background was probably the biggest box-office success of this film genre and led to numerous similar projects by themselves such as faithful to the original Shakespeare film adaptation of Julius Caesar the Carfagno, according to Quo Vadis, the second Oscar earned. The previous year, Carfagno was ever awarded, this time for his decorative designs for the Hollywood Introspective city of illusions with Kirk Douglas. As MGM repeat with another silent film remake of Quo Vadis their success, if not wanted even exceed, she took Carfagno in 1958 for the old -Roman decorations to William Wyler's three and a half -hour epic Ben Hur. This work brought a Carfagno his third Oscar.

Since the demise of looking gorgeous widescreen cinema classical Hollywood embossing Carfagno was mainly involved in conventional entertainment films, which aside from the cozy storytellers biography The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, the science-fiction utopia 2022 ... want him to survive and the The Hindenburg disaster movie, only rarely actually demanded.

1982 Carfagno first worked in a production directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The actor - director was so impressed by Carfagnos work that he, almost exclusively for himself and his films took the film architect until 1988, the year of its age-related retreat into private life in fitting.

Filmography