F. Keogh Gleason
Francis Keogh Gleason ( born April 14, 1906 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, † December 18, 1982 in Los Angeles County, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who won four times in the 1950 Academy Award for Best Production Design and more was nominated three times for an Oscar in this category. Gleason was known in particular through cooperation with the film director Vincente Minnelli.
Life
Gleason worked as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood for Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer in Culver City and worked 1942-1970 at the scenic equipment of approximately eighty films and television series with.
His first Academy Award for Best Production Design, he won at the Academy Awards in 1952 along with Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames and Edwin B. Willis for the color film An American in Paris ( 1951), a staged by Vincente Minnelli musical film starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron and Oscar Levant. Another Oscar in this category, he received Gibbons, Edward C. Carfagno and Willis 1953 for the rotated Minnelli also of black and white film City of Illusions (1952 ) starring Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner and Walter Pidgeon in the lead roles.
In 1954 he was nominated by Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Willis, Arthur Krams and Jack D. Moore for these Oscar for color film The Story of Three Loves (1953), the Minnelli and Gottfried Reinhardt of Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Leslie Caron was staged. At the Academy Awards in 1955 he was nominated once again with Gibbons, Ames and Willis for a resulting directed by Minnelli color film for an Oscar and indeed for the production design in the musical film Brigadoon (1954 ) with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse.
At the Academy Awards in 1957 he won both an Academy Award for Best Production Design in a black and white film and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a color film: he received his Oscar with Gibbons, Malcolm Brown and Willis for Hell is in me ( Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1956), the filmed by Robert Wise life story of middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano with Paul Newman, Pier Angeli and Everett Sloane in the leading roles, while the Oscar nomination with Gibbons, Hans O. Peters, Ames and Willis for Vincent van Gogh - a life of passion (1956 ), an account of the life of Vincent van Gogh by Minnelli with Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn and James Donald.
His fourth and final Oscar won with Gleason William A. Horning, Ames and Henry Grace for Gigi (1958 ), a musical film also directed by Minnelli with Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan.
Since the late 1950s he worked as an art director and production designer for numerous television series such as The Twilight Zone ( 1960 to 1962 ), My Favorite Martian (1966) and Solo for Oncel (1966 to 1967).