George Sawley
George E. Sawley ( born June 18, 1903 in Parsons, Kansas, † April 26, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
Sawley began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1927 in films such as Streets of Shanghai and Enchanted Iceland and worked until 1962 at the scenic features of almost seventy films and episodes of television series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1943, he was first nominated together with Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the color film Pirates in the Caribbean Sea ( 1942), who under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille with Ray Milland, John Wayne and Paulette Goddard was in the lead roles. Another Oscar nomination in this category, he got in 1951 with Ernst swept for the color film Destination Moon (1950), a science fiction film directed by Irving Pichel with largely unknown actors John Archer, Warner Anderson and Tom Powers.