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Arthur Johns is a Sound Designer and Special Effects American born on 30 october 1889 at Kansas (USA)

Arthur Johns

Arthur Johns
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 october 1889 at Kansas (USA)
Death 4 september 1947 (at 57 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Arthur Johns (October 30, 1889 – September 4, 1947) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and was nominated for three more in the same category.

Best films

Gone with the Wind (1940)
(Sound Effects Editor)
Rebecca (1940)
(Sound Designer)
Spellbound (1945)
(Sound)
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
(Sound)

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Filmography of Arthur Johns (10 films)

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Sound

The Stranger, 1h35
Directed by Orson Welles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Loretta Young, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne
Roles Sound
Rating72% 3.648873.648873.648873.648873.64887
In 1946, Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him, with no clue left to his identity except "a hobby that almost amounts to a mania—clocks."
The Dark Mirror, 1h25
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Lester Allen, Lane Chandler
Roles Sound
Rating70% 3.546753.546753.546753.546753.54675
This psychological thriller tells the story of a pair of identical twins, one loving and nice and the other severely disturbed. A doctor is killed and witnesses identify one of the twins as the person seen having a quarrel with the victim shortly before his death. A detective investigating the case cannot determine which twin did the killing since each can provide an alibi for the other. The police ask for assistance from a doctor who studies twins to help crack the case.
Tomorrow Is Forever, 1h45
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood
Roles Sound
Rating72% 3.6416453.6416453.6416453.6416453.641645
The movie tells the story of Elizabeth (Colbert) and John (Welles), a married couple recently separated when John goes off to fight in World War I. When Elizabeth receives notice of John's death, she marries another man (George Brent). John, however, is still alive, and later returns, but after being disfigured in the war he has undergone plastic surgery, making him almost unrecognizable. He has also adopted an eight-year old daughter (Wood). When he finds out that he has a son with Elizabeth, he is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to reveal his true identity.
And Then There Were None, 1h37
Directed by René Clair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Richard Haydn
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating73% 3.6952353.6952353.6952353.6952353.695235
Eight people, all total strangers to each other, are invited to small, isolated Indian Island off the coast of Devon, England, by Mr. and Mrs. Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centerpiece, ten figurines of Indians in a circle. Afterward, Thomas Rogers puts on a gramophone record, from which a voice accuses them all of murder:
Along Came Jones, 1h30
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan Duryea, William Demarest, Lane Chandler, Frank Sully
Roles Sound
Rating64% 3.2449353.2449353.2449353.2449353.244935
Easygoing Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) and his friend George Fury (William Demarest) wander into a town. Jones is mistaken for a wanted bandit named Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea), which causes him no end of trouble. Meanwhile, the real Jarrad is hiding out in the home of his girl, Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young). At first, she tries to use the newcomer to distract the townsfolk, but as she gets to know Jones, her feelings start to change.
Belle of the Yukon, 1h23
Directed by Randolph Scott, William A. Seiter, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns, Bob Burns, Charles Winninger
Roles Sound
Rating53% 2.659832.659832.659832.659832.65983
In a Yukon town called Malemute, a saloon owned by "Honest" John Calhoun gets a new star performer, Belle De Valle, while he's away. A stranger in town, Sam Slade, offers to keep an eye on things until the boss returns, while saloon manager Pop Candless and crooked town marshal Maitland keep a suspicious eye on him.
That Uncertain Feeling, 1h24
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Harry Davenport, Olive Blakeney, Sig Ruman
Roles Sound Designer
Rating65% 3.2972353.2972353.2972353.2972353.297235
At the suggestion of one of her friends, Jill Baker (Merle Oberon) visits psychoanalyst Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray) for her intermittent hiccups, which appear when she gets nervous or irritated. He soon has her questioning her previously happy marriage to her business executive husband Larry (Melvyn Douglas).
Gone with the Wind, 4h3
Directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen
Roles Sound Effects Editor
Rating81% 4.0984254.0984254.0984254.0984254.098425
Part 1 On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.
Rebecca
Rebecca (1940)
, 2h10
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper
Roles Sound Designer
Rating80% 4.0486954.0486954.0486954.0486954.048695
A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine), whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.

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Gone with the Wind, 4h3
Directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen
Roles Special Effects
Rating81% 4.0984254.0984254.0984254.0984254.098425
Part 1 On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.