Louis Mesenkop
Louis Mesenkop ( born February 6, 1903 in Illinois; † February 19, 1974 in Los Angeles, California ) was a film technician and special effects artist who twice won an Oscar for Best Special Effects and was awarded an honorary Oscar.
Life
Mesenkop began his career as a film technician and special effects artist in 1935 with the film Women - whims and worked in the following seven years in the production of twenty-five films. At the Academy Awards in 1939, he shared with Gordon Jennings Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills and Walter colonel an honorary Oscar "for his outstanding achievements in the development of special photographic and sound effects in the produced by Paramount Pictures film pirates in Alaska ( "for outstanding achievements in creating special photographic and sound effects in the Paramount production Spawn of the North ").
At the Academy Awards in 1942 he won the one with Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings the Oscar for best special effects for I Wanted Wings (1941 ) by Mitchell Leisen starring Ray Milland, William Holden and Wayne Morris in the lead roles, and was on the other for an Oscar nominated in this category with Edouart and Jennings for Aloma, the daughter of the South Seas (1941 ) by Alfred Santell with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall and Phillip Reed.
In 1943, he won another time with Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira an Oscar for best special effects, specifically for pirates in the Caribbean Sea (1942 ) by Cecil B. DeMille with the main actors Ray Milland, John Wayne and Paulette Goddard.
After almost fifteen- year break, he worked as a senior engineer in 1956 in the production of directed by Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments with monumental.