Harry Oliver
Harry G. Oliver ( born April 4, 1888 in Hastings, Minnesota; † 5 July 1973 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director, production designer, architect and designer.
Life
Oliver began his Laufbahm 1919 as an art director and set designer for silent films and worked the first time at The Face of the World ( 1919).
After Ben Hur (1925 ) he was nominated for the first Academy Awards in 1929 for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the film Happiness in the Attic (1927 ) by Frank Borzage. In the next Oscar ceremony in April 1930, he was nominated for an Oscar for his scene image in the made also of Borzage film Street Angel (1928 ) again.
In addition, he created the scene image in addition to numerous other films for the first woman in the life of Frank Borzage, City Girl ( Our Daily Bread - The woman from Chicago, 1930) by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Film Something (1932 ) by Clyde Bruckman with Harold Lloyd and cry of the hunted (1934 ) by Jack Conway, Howard Hawks and William A. Wellman.
Oliver was also active as a designer and created the windmill building for the U.S. bakery chain van de Kamp. In addition, he created as an architect building the so-called Storybook House style, a popular in the 1920s in England and the United States style of architecture. One of his most famous buildings is the Spadena House in Beverly Hills from 1921, the The Witch 's House ( The Witches House ) is also called. This also repeatedly served as a movie set as in 1995 in Clueless - What else!.