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Casey Roberts is a Actor and Interior Designer American born on 9 may 1901 at Illinois (USA)

Casey Roberts

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Nationality USA
Birth 9 may 1901 at Illinois (USA)
Death 29 may 1949 (at 48 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Casey Roberts (9 May 1901 – 29 May 1949) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

He was born in Illinois and died in Los Angeles, California.

Best films

Joan of Arc (1948)
(Set Decoration)
Two Arabian Knights (1927)
(Interior Designer)

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Perc Westmore
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Filmography of Casey Roberts (22 films)

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Actor

Anesthesia
Anesthesia (2016)
, 1h30
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kristen Stewart, Hannah Marks, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Close
Roles Student
Rating60% 3.0468253.0468253.0468253.0468253.046825
When Professor Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston) gets violently mugged, it brings together the lives of people he's affected in the past.
St. Vincent, 1h43
Directed by Theodore Melfi
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O'Dowd, Bill Murray, Jaeden Martell, Terrence Howard
Roles Classmate
Rating71% 3.5991553.5991553.5991553.5991553.599155
Vincent MacKenna (Bill Murray) is a Vietnam War veteran and retiree living in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. He is a grumpy alcoholic who smokes and gambles regularly. His wife, Sandy (Donna Mitchell), developed Alzheimer's Disease years ago and can no longer recognize him, but he still does her laundry at a nursing home where she lives and visits her weekly, posing as a doctor. Vincent's only other close friends are a pregnant Russian sex worker named Daka (Naomi Watts) and his cat, Felix. He owes many people money. Despite his antagonistic behavior toward strangers, Vincent does have acquaintances who like and respect him.

Art

Love Happy
Love Happy (1949)
, 1h25
Directed by Leo McCarey, David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Actors Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Marion Hutton
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.9002052.9002052.9002052.9002052.900205
Private detective Sam Grunion (Groucho Marx) has been searching for the extremely valuable Royal Romanoff diamonds for eleven years, and his investigation leads him to a troupe of struggling performers, led by Mike Johnson (Paul Valentine), who are trying to put on a musical revue called Love Happy.
Joan of Arc, 2h25
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.19673.19673.19673.19673.1967
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 1h50
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Dorothy Christy, Thurston Hall
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.448093.448093.448093.448093.44809
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey", henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his childishly dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, and Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth and loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.
Devotion
Devotion (1946)
, 1h47
Directed by Edward Chodorov, Robert Buckner, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Films about families
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Nancy Coleman, John Arthur Kennedy
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.2942853.2942853.2942853.2942853.294285
The story takes place in the early 1800s, when the Brontë sisters Charlotte and Anne have made the decision to leave their family - their sister Emily, their brother Branwell, their aunt and their vicar father - to take positions as governesses in other families. The two sisters long to break free from their tedious life and get experiences from the outside world, to prepare for their careers as writers.
Nobody Lives Forever, 1h40
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris, George Tobias
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.49333.49333.49333.49333.4933
Former conman Nick Blake (Garfield), a soldier returning to New York City after World War II, looks up his old girlfriend Toni Blackburn (Faye Emerson) to get the money she has been holding for him while he was in the army. Toni claims that she lost the money investing in a nightclub before selling it to Chet King (Robert Shayne), who employs her there now as a singer. Nick has discovered Toni's affair with King, however, and gets his money back.
To Have and Have Not, 1h40
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Noir, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Marcel Dalio
Roles Set Decoration
Rating77% 3.8976653.8976653.8976653.8976653.897665
The film is set in Fort-de-France, in the French colony of Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France. The island is now controlled by pro-German Vichy France. World-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) has a small fishing-boat which he charters to tourists. Eddie (Walter Brennan) is his unofficial mate, though he's not much use due to heavy drinking. Harry is urged to help the French Resistance smuggle some people onto the island, but refuses.
Christmas in Connecticut, 1h42
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Christmas films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, George Macready, Reginald Gardiner
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72% 3.647353.647353.647353.647353.64735
Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a single food writer living in New York whose articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm and her husband and baby are admired by housewives across the country. Her publisher, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet), is unaware of the charade and insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan). Facing a career-ending scandal for her and her editor, Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne), she is forced to comply. In desperation, Elizabeth agrees to marry her friend John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner), who has a farm in Connecticut, even though she does not love him. She enlists the help of her friend, chef Felix Bassenak (S.Z. Sakall), who has been providing her with recipes for her articles.
Crime by Night, 1h12
Directed by William Clemens
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker, Cy Kendall
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61% 3.0976553.0976553.0976553.0976553.097655
Larry Borden's career as a concert pianist ended when a dispute with wealthy father-in-law Harvey Carr ended up with his hand chopped by an ax. Carr is found dead from a blow by an axe and Larry is sure to be the prime suspect.
Hollywood Canteen, 2h4
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Dane Clark, Eddie Cantor
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.4979953.4979953.4979953.4979953.497995
Deux soldats en congé passent trois nuits dans un club offrant gratuitement de la nourriture, de la danse et des divertissements aux militaires en route vers l'étranger. Les fondateurs du club, Bette Davis et John Garfield, donnent des conférences sur l'histoire du lieu.Ld
Northern Pursuit, 1h33
Directed by Don Siegel, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Tom Tully, Monte Blue
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.2949753.2949753.2949753.2949753.294975
After a German U-boat drops off Nazi saboteurs, RCMP Corporal Wagner (Flynn) captures the leader, Colonel Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine), the only survivor after an avalanche wipes out the rest of the group. When left alone with the Canadian Mountie, von Keller discovers that Wagner speaks German and is of German ancestry, and tries to persuade his captor to help him. After being taken into custody, von Keller leads a jailbreak from a prisoner of war camp, enlisting other German soldiers in his escape. Wagner, seemingly under suspicion by the RCMP of being a Nazi sympathizer, is court martialed and contacted by Ernst Willis (Gene Lockhart), a real enemy agent, who hires him as a wilderness guide.
Secret Enemies, 57minutes
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Craig Stevens, Faye Emerson, John Ridgely, Charles Lang, Robert Warwick, Frank Reicher
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9997752.9997752.9997752.9997752.999775
George Washington Slept Here, 1h33
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Harvey Stephens, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.445673.445673.445673.445673.44567
Manhattanite Connie Fuller (Ann Sheridan) secretly acquires a dilapidated house in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, without her husband Bill's (Jack Benny) knowledge. The couple were forced out of their New York City apartment after their dog damaged the carpets. The house Connie buys is believed to have served as George Washington's temporary home during the Revolutionary War. Connie takes Bill on a tour of the countryside including the house, hoping that Bill will fall in love with it. Her plan to surprise him with the news that they own the house is frustrated when he announces that he hates it. Bill only sees the poor condition of the house, and its poor location for commuting into the city. Having nowhere else to live, they move into the house anyway. Connie's sister Madge (Joyce Reynolds) moves with them. They hire Mr. Kimber (Percy Kilbride) to help with the renovations. They uncover evidence that it was not Washington who had slept there, but Benedict Arnold. Connie's spoiled nephew Raymond (Douglas Croft) also moves in during the summer. Connie's wealthy uncle Stanley (Charles Coburn) plans to visit also.