The 10 best art directors of silent cinema
by SatourN-3 | created - 17 Feb 2011 | updated - 17 Feb 2011 | Public
1. Erich Kettelhut
Art_director | Metropolis
Erich Kettelhut was born on November 1, 1893 in Berlin, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Metropolis (1927), Die Herrin der Welt, 7. Teil - Die Wohltäterin der Menschheit (1920) and Die Herrin der Welt 4. Teil - König Macombe (1919). He died on March 13, ...
2. Karl Vollbrecht
Art_director | Metropolis
Karl Vollbrecht was born in 1886. He was a production designer and art director, known for Metropolis (1927), M (1931) and Woman in the Moon (1929). He died on January 10, 1973 in Schladen, Germany.
3. Robert Herlth
Production_designer | Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Influential German art director, the son of a brewer. Herlth studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Between 1916 and 1918, he designed his first theatrical sets during wartime army service in Vilnius, collaborating with the set designer Hermann Warm. From 1922, he worked in tandem ...
4. Walter Röhrig
Production_designer | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Walter Röhrig was born on April 13, 1897 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Hans im Glück (1936) and Looping the Loop (1928). He died in 1945 in Caputh, Brandenburg, Germany.
5. Kurt Richter
Production_designer | Panzerschrank Nr. 13
Kurt Richter was born on October 29, 1885 in Austria. He was an art director and production designer, known for Panzerschrank Nr. 13 (1921), Das Geheimnis der Mumie (1921) and Der Dolch des Malayen (1919). He died on April 26, 1960 in Salzburg, Austria.
6. Claude Autant-Lara
Director | Le diable au corps
Claude Autant-Lara was born on August 5, 1901 in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France. He was a director and writer, known for Devil in the Flesh (1947), The Crossing of Paris (1956) and The Red and the Black (1954). He was married to Ghislaine Autant-Lara. He died on February 5, 2000 in Antibes, ...
7. Cedric Gibbons
Art_director | Gaslight
After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, ...
8. Georges Méliès
Director | À la conquête du pôle
Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, ...
9. Axel Esbensen
Art_director | Dödskyssen
Axel Esbensen was born on July 3, 1878 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an art director and production designer, known for Kiss of Death (1916), The Hell Ship (1923) and Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919). He died on January 1, 1923 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
10. Lazare Meerson
Art_director | À nous la liberté
Lazare Meerson was born on July 8, 1900 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an art director and production designer, known for À Nous la Liberté (1931), Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) and Knight Without Armor (1937). He died on June 28, 1938 in...
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