Gilbert Kurland
Gilbert Kurland ( born November 28, 1904 in Minneapolis, † February 26, 1978 in Los Angeles ) was an American filmmaker.
Gilbert Kurland's career in Hollywood began with the introduction of sound. He appeared for the first time in 1931 as a music supervisor on the film Frankenstein. In this position, still followed by several works until the mid-1930s for Universal Pictures, which had focused on horror movies. This includes films such as The Invisible Man, The Black Cat, Werewolf of London, The Raven, which today are considered classics. In about the same period he also worked with in more than 60 films in Tondepartment. For the film Bride of Frankenstein (1935 ) he was nominated for the Oscar for best sound, but was defeated in 1936 Douglas Shearer for Naughty Marietta. The literature also finds some indication that Kurland was nominated for a 1935 Academy Award for Best Sound for Imitation of Life (1934 ). However, the official Academy Award - page lists Theodore Soderberg, the then Director of Universal Sound Studio Sound Department, acting as nominees in the category.
In the late 1930s, he joined both the specialist and the studio and was assistant director at MGM. Example, he was assistant director in 1936 for Edward Sedgwick in Burn ' Em Up O'Connor, S. Sylvan Simon supported several times in musicals, romantic comedies and melodramas, George B. Seitz, HC Potter, Robert B. Sinclair, Jacques Tourneur and Richard Thorpe in Tarzan's Secret Treasure. In 1942 he moved into production. First, he was manager. Here he was, inter alia, 1942 participated in Edward Buzzells The Omaha Trail, but also to war propaganda films such as Salute to the Marines and Victor Flemings battle in the clouds with Spencer Tracy (both 1943). Between 1943 and 1948, his career was interrupted. After a brief return to the movie business in 1948 to 1950, the career was again interrupted until 1958. In 1958 he came back to Hollywood as a production manager. First work was Robert Wise's anti-war film U 23 - Silent, Run Deep. Other important films were Delbert Mann Separated from bed and board, John Huston Those you do not forgive (1960 ), Richard Brooks ' Elmer Gantry, John Frankenheimer's The Wild Ones (1961) and The Prisoner of Alcatraz (1962 ), J. Lee Thompson's Taras Bulba and as a career completion Elliot Silverstein's the Man called Horse (1970). Kurland was involved in more than 100 films.