Jack Okey

John "Jack" Clark Okey ( born June 3, 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA, † January 8, 1963 in Hollywood, California ) was an American art director and production designer.

Life

Okey began in the mid 1920s as an art director in film productions in Hollywood, was first involved in the production of the film The White Moth (1924 ) by Maurice Tourneur, involved in the creation of over 100 films.

At the Academy Awards in November 1930, he was first nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design and indeed for Cecily ( 1929). A second nomination for an Academy Award he received in 1946 with Albert S. D' Agostino, Darrell Silvera and Claude E. Carpenter for Experiment in Terror ( Experiment Perilous, 1944).

Okey, who was also the architect of the 1936 film studios opened by Alexander Korda in Denham, also created the screenshots for Pursuing James A. (1932 ), The 42nd Street (1933 ), the life Is not it beautiful? (1946 ) and Out of the Past (1947 ) and worked there together with film directors such as John Francis Dillon, Mervyn LeRoy, Lloyd Bacon, Frank Capra and Jacques Tourneur.

Filmography (selection)

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