Frank R. McKelvy
Frank R. McKelvy ( born January 24, 1914 in Pennsylvania, † February 18, 1980 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American production designer who was nominated seven times for an Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
McKelvy began his career as a set designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1947 at the Drama Rough Harvest (Original Title: Wild Harvest ) by Tay Garnett with Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour and Robert Preston and worked throughout his career at the facilities of 65 films and television series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1957, he was first nominated along with Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick and Sam Comer for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the black and white film also heroes can cry ( The Proud and Profane, 1956) by George Seaton with William Holden, Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter. In 1959, he was with Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead and Sam Comer for the scene image in the directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes feature film Vertigo - nominated from the realm of the dead ( Vertigo, 1958) for an Oscar.
His next nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a color film was made in 1960 with William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye and Henry Grace for the staged also by Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest ( North by Northwest, 1959) with Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason in the lead roles. At the Academy Awards in 1963 he was again nominated Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson and Sam Comer for the Academy Award for Best Production Design Education in a black and white film: this time for the film comedy It began in Rome ( The Pigeon That Took Rome, 1962), directed by Melville Shavelson with the main actors Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli and Harry Guardino.
Another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in 1970 by Harry Horner for the resulting directed by Sydney Pollack Drama Horses, you give the coup de grace ( They Shoot Horses, Do not They? , 1969), in which Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York and played the lead roles. At the Academy Awards in 1975 McKelvy was nominated Alexander Golitzen and E. Preston Ames for the scene image in the disaster film Earthquake ( Earthquake, 1974) by Mark Robson with Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and George Kennedy.
His seventh and final nomination for an Academy Award for Best Production Design McKelvy finally got with Edward C. Carfagno at the Oscar ceremony in 1976, specifically for the staged by Robert Wise disaster film The Hindenburg ( The Hindenburg, 1975), in which George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft and William Atherton the lead roles.