Perry Ferguson
Perry F. Ferguson ( born November 13, 1901 in Fort Worth, Texas, † December 27, 1963 in Los Angeles ) was an American production designer in film.
Life
Perry Ferguson began his career in 1933 as a production designer in Hollywood, where he was taken at RKO Pictures under contract and proved to be very versatile. So he came in film comedies like Bringing Up Baby ( Bringing up Baby, 1938), the adventure movie uprising in Sidi Hakim ( Gunga Din, 1939 ) and in the Astaire - Rogers movie musical The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939) used. Over the years, he also worked with renowned directors, including Howard Hawks, Orson Welles, Sam Wood, William Wyler and Alfred Hitchcock. At the Academy Awards in 1937, he was first nominated Best Art Direction for the film Winterset in the category. He received further nominations for Welles' cinematic milestone Citizen Kane (1941 ) and Sam Woods Giant Step (The Pride of the Yankees, 1942) with Gary Cooper in the lead role. From the mid- 1950s Ferguson worked mainly for the American television.
With his wife Mary J. he had a son named Perry. Ferguson died in 1963 at the age of 62 years in Los Angeles. His grave is located at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In 2003, the United States Postal Service issued together with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ten stamps in the series " American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes". One of the stamps shows Perry Ferguson as representative of the Designer.