Haldane Douglas
Haldane Douglas ( born August 13, 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † 26 May 1980 Orange County, California ) was an American artist, art director and production designer, who was nominated once for an Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
After schooling Douglas first studied art at the University of Pittsburgh and later from 1926 to 1928 at the painting school of André Lhote in Paris. He worked as an architect, painter and printmaker. After that, he was a lecturer at the Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles, before he began his career as a set designer for 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and for the first time at Let's go strolling ( On the Avenue, 1937) by Roy Del Ruth with Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll and Alice Faye was involved in the making of a film.
Haldane, who was 1941-1947 as an art director at 20th Century Fox contract, was at the Oscar ceremony in 1944 together with Hans Dreier and Bertram C. Granger for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film For Whom the Bell Tolls ( For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943) nominated. In this adaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman and Katina Paxinou were visible under the direction of Sam Wood in the lead roles.