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Carmen Dillon is a Production Design British born on 25 october 1908 at London (United-kingdom)

Carmen Dillon

Carmen Dillon
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 25 october 1908 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 12 april 2000 (at 91 years) at Hove (United-kingdom)

Carmen Dillon (25 October 1908, Cricklewood, London, England – 12 April 2000, Hove, East Sussex, England) was an English film and production designer who won an Oscar for the Olivier version of Hamlet (1948).

Biography

Carmen Dillon naît à Cricklewood, désormais partie du Grand Londres, la cadette de six enfants. Ses parents l'encouragent plus tard dans son envie de devenir architecte. Alors qu'elle étudie à l'Architectural Association School of Architecture, elle rencontre plusieurs directeurs artistiques, dont Vincent Korda et Alfred Junge. Elle commence alors à travailler dans l'industrie cinématographique, d'abord sur de petits films. Pendant longtemps, elle sera la seule femme à exercer ce métier en Angleterre, même si le fait d'être une femme n'est pas bien vu à l'époque dans cette profession.

Elle commence comme collaboratrice d'autres directeurs artistiques, Ralph W. Brinton, Paul Sheriff, Roger Furse, puis est complètement responsable de la direction artistique de plusieurs films d'Anthony Asquith par exemple. La mode des films tournés en extérieur fait qu'elle se retrouve à travailler sur des comédies, comme la série des "Carry on", puis à la fin des années 1960 recommence à travailler sur des projets plus importants avec Joseph Losey.

Elle fait partie des quatre femmes inscrites en janvier 2016 dans l'Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.

Best films

The Omen (1976)
(Art Direction)
Julia (1977)
(Production Design)
Hamlet (1948)
(Art Direction)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
(Art Direction)
The Go-Between (1971)
(Art Direction)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Carmen Dillon (41 films)

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Art

The Corn Is Green, 1h33
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Anna Massey, Bill Fraser, Patricia Hayes, Toyah Willcox
Roles Production Design
Rating67% 3.3928953.3928953.3928953.3928953.392895
Middle-aged Lilly Moffatt (Katharine Hepburn) sets up a school in a Welsh coal mining town, despite the determined opposition of the local squire (Bill Fraser). Eventually, she considers giving up. Then she discovers a promising student Morgan Evans (Ian Saynor), a miner seemingly destined for a life of hard work and heavy drink. With renewed hope, she works hard to help him realise his potential.
Julia
Julia (1977)
, 1h58
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell
Roles Production Design
Rating70% 3.5453753.5453753.5453753.5453753.545375
The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical student/physician Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian (Jane Fonda), a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) at a beachhouse.
The Omen
The Omen (1976)
, 1h51
Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Leo McKern
Roles Art Direction
Rating74% 3.7491653.7491653.7491653.7491653.749165
In Rome, American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) is in a hospital where his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) gives birth to a boy, whom he is told dies moments after being born. Robert is convinced by the hospital chaplain, Father Spiletto (Martin Benson), to secretly adopt an orphan whose mother died at the same time. Robert agrees, but does not reveal to his wife that the child is not theirs. They name the child Damien (Harvey Spencer Stephens).
Love Among the Ruins, 1h40
Directed by George Cukor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Richard Pearson, Robert Harris, Joan Sims
Roles Art Direction
Rating76% 3.83573.83573.83573.83573.8357
Jessica Medlicott, grande dame du théâtre anglais, engage un des plus célèbres avocats de Londres, Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones, pour la défendre d’une action en justice menée par son amant, bien plus jeune qu'elle, pour rupture de promesse de mariage. L’avocat s’avère être un ancien prétendant toujours amoureux d’elle...
Butley
Butley (1974)

Directed by Harold Pinter
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Michael Byrne, Georgina Hale, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.3437553.3437553.3437553.3437553.343755
Une journée dans la vie d'un professeur d'université en pleine crise existentielle.
Bequest to the Nation, 1h58
Directed by James Cellan Jones
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton, Dominic Guard
Roles Production Design
Rating62% 3.143823.143823.143823.143823.14382
Il s'agit d'un film historique relatant les relations entre l'amiral Nelson et Lady Hamilton durant les guerres napoléoniennes.
The Go-Between, 1h58
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Dominic Guard, Michael Redgrave
Roles Art Direction
Rating71% 3.594753.594753.594753.594753.59475
The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is invited by a school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at a Norfolk country house occupied by his family. While Leo is there, Marcus is taken sick, and Leo finds himself becoming a messenger (go-between) carrying messages between Marcus's older sister, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) with whom she is secretly in love. However, her parents want her to become engaged to the owner of the house and estate, Hugh, Viscount Trimingham (played by Edward Fox). A heatwave leads to a thunderstorm, which coincides with Leo's birthday party and the climax of the film, when Marion's mother and Leo find Marion and Burgess making love in an outbuilding. This event has a long-lasting impact on Leo, and Burgess shoots himself with his own gun in his farmhouse kitchen.
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, 1h40
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peter Cook, John Cleese, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Harold Pinter, Arthur Lowe
Roles Art Direction
Rating68% 3.435713.435713.435713.435713.43571
The mysterious Michael Rimmer (Cook) appears at a small and ailing British advertising agency, where the employees assume he is working on a time and motion study. However, he quickly begins to assert a de facto authority over the firm’s mostly ineffectual staff and soon acquires control of the business from the incompetent boss Ferret (Arthur Lowe). Rimmer then succeeds in establishing the newly invigorated firm as the country’s leading polling agency, and begins to make regular TV appearances as a polling expert. He subsequently moves into politics, acting as an adviser to the leader of the Tory opposition, and then becomes an MP himself, for the constituency of Budleigh Moor (a reference to Cook's frequent collaborator, Dudley Moore), along the way acquiring a trophy wife (Vanessa Howard). Relying on a combination of charisma and deception—and murder—he then rapidly works his way up the political ladder to become prime minister (after throwing his predecessor off an oil rig), and finally, by public demand, a near-dictatorial president. Ferret attempts to assassinate Rimmer as he and his wife ride through the capital in an open-topped convertible, but fails and falls to his death.
Sinful Davey, 1h35
Directed by John Huston
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan, Anjelica Huston, Robert Morley
Roles Art Direction
Rating57% 2.853782.853782.853782.853782.85378
En Écosse, au début du XIX siècle, le jeune Davey Haggart est le fils d'un illustre brigand qui fut pendu. Davey est bien décidé à devenir lui aussi un bandit exceptionnel, cependant il échoue dans tout ce qu'il entreprend.
Otley
Otley (1969)

Directed by Dick Clement
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter, Freddie Jones
Roles Art Direction
Rating60% 3.049553.049553.049553.049553.04955
Gerald Otley est un petit voyou amateur à la nonchalance étudiée et décontractée, qui s'est fait une règle de ne jamais dormir deux nuits au même endroit. À un ami qui l'héberge, il dérobe une petite boîte à tabac, sans s'apercevoir que l'objet contient une bande magnétique. Le lendemain, son hôte est retrouvé mort. Otley, soupçonné d'en savoir plus long sur les activités du défunt que ce qu'il veut bien avouer aux enquêteurs, est bientôt entraîné à son corps défendant dans les démêlés entre services d'espionnage rivaux. Enrôlé par Scotland Yard, il doit faire équipe avec la charmante Imogen.
A Dandy in Aspic, 1h47
Directed by Laurence Harvey, Anthony Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Peter Cook, Harry Andrews, Lionel Stander
Roles Art Direction
Rating62% 3.1027453.1027453.1027453.1027453.102745
Eberlin's (Laurence Harvey) superiors in Britain instruct him to find and assassinate a KGB agent named Krasnevin, believed to have killed a number of British agents. This presents a problem for Eberlin, as he is Krasnevin. Summoned to a meeting at a country house, he is presented with a photograph of the suspected Krasnevin. It turns out to be his handler and go-between with Moscow.
Accident
Accident (1967)
, 1h45
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant, Delphine Seyrig
Roles Art Direction
Rating67% 3.3932853.3932853.3932853.3932853.393285
The story centers on a married Oxford professor, Stephen, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis. The world changes for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful young student, who is engaged to another of his students, William. Following a car accident outside Stephen's home in which William is killed and Anna is severely disoriented, she is obliged to remain with Stephen although his wife is out of town. The events preceding the accident are told in flashbacks. While Stephen believes that he is orchestrating a tryst with Anna that will leave both his wife and William in the dark, he soon discovers that Anna is playing a game of her own.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, 1h51
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd, Olivia Hussey, Phyllis Calvert, Martin Stephens
Roles Art Direction
Rating58% 2.9035652.9035652.9035652.9035652.903565
In Italy, two children, Michael (Martin Stephens) and Debbie (Elizabeth Dear), are aware that their mother, Moira (Maureen O'Hara) has left them for a lover, a famous Italian composer and they are staying at the Villa Fiorita. Michael convinces Debbie to run away to the Villa to fetch their mother, and forces her to sell her prized pony to afford the journey. They arrive, and the lover, Lorenzo (Rossano Brazzi) calls their father to inform him that the children have run away and that he will be sending them home. However, Michael falls ill and Lorenzo allows them both to stay. Debbie joins forces with Donna, the daughter of their mother's lover, to manipulate Moira into returning to Britain. A hunger strike by the girls ensues which fails and culminates in Moira slapping Debbie and Lorenzo spanking Donna. Lorenzo finally decides to send the children home but Michael and Donna attempt to run away on a sailboat during a storm. After the two nearly drown, Moira and Lorenzo agree that they have lost the battle, and a heartbroken Moira returns to England with her children.
Carry On Cruising, 1h29
Directed by Ralph Thomas, Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Dilys Laye, Esma Cannon
Roles Art Direction
Rating60% 3.0491353.0491353.0491353.0491353.049135
Captain Crowther (Sid James) has five of his crew replaced at short notice before a new cruise voyage begins. Not only does he get the five most incompetent crew men ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too.
The Naked Edge, 1h37
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold, Peter Cushing
Roles Art Direction
Rating65% 3.2942353.2942353.2942353.2942353.294235
In the aftermath of a theft and murder, Martha Radcliffe (Kerr) increasingly suspects her husband George Radcliffe (Cooper), whose testimony in court convicted the main suspect, of being the real culprit.