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Francis Keogh Gleason is a Production Design American born on 14 april 1906 at Minneapolis (USA)

Francis Keogh Gleason

Francis Keogh Gleason
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 april 1906 at Minneapolis (USA)
Death 18 december 1982 (at 76 years) at Los Angeles County (USA)

Francis Keogh Gleason (born April 14, 1906 in Minnesota, USA - December 18, 1982) was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards (for An American in Paris in 1951, The Bad and the Beautiful in 1952, Somebody Up There Likes Me in 1956 and "Gigi" in 1958) and was nominated an additional 3 times. Gleason graduated from the Minnesota School of Fine Arts (now known as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design) in 1927.

Biography

Francis Keogh Gleason fait des études au Minneapolis College of Art and Design, dont il sort diplômé en 1927.

Best films

King Solomon's Mines (1950)
(Assistant Set Decoration)
Gigi (1958)
(Set Decoration)
Oklahoma! (1955)
(Set Decoration)
An American in Paris (1951)
(Assistant Set Decoration)
The Sandpiper (1965)
(Set Decoration)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(29 films)
Henry Grace
Henry Grace
(20 films)
Helen Rose
Helen Rose
(19 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Francis Keogh Gleason (57 films)

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Art

There Was a Crooked Man..., 2h6
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Prison films, Évasion
Actors Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Burgess Meredith, Arthur O'Connell, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.3987153.3987153.3987153.3987153.398715
Paris Pitman has pulled off a $500,000 robbery and is the only one who knows where the money is hidden. He is seen in a bordello and is captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to an Arizona penitentiary.
The Traveling Executioner, 1h35
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Themes Prison films
Actors Stacy Keach, Bud Cort, Stefan Gierasch, Marianna Hill, Graham Jarvis, James Sloyan
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.1438553.1438553.1438553.1438553.143855
Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman, travels around the South in 1918 with his own portable electric chair, going from prison to prison with his young assistant, Jimmy, charging one hundred dollars per execution. Two of Jonas' potential victims are siblings Willy and Gundred Herzallerliebst. While Jonas successfully executes Willy, he falls for Gundred, hoping to fake her execution.
The Legend of Lylah Clare, 2h10
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Roles Set Decoration
Rating57% 2.8541152.8541152.8541152.8541152.854115
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
The Young Runaways, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Brooke Bundy, Lloyd Bochner, Patty McCormack, Lynn Bari, Norman Fell, Quentin Dean
Roles Set Decoration
Rating53% 2.668592.668592.668592.668592.66859
The film begins with Shelley Morrison (Brooke Bundy) packing to run away from home because she feels she is not loved by her widowed father (Lloyd Bochner). She tells their maid (future The Jeffersons star Isabel Sanford) that to her father she is not his daughter,but a product. She has overheard him telling columnist Army Archerd that he is testing some of his psychological theories about teenagers on his own daughter.
The Split
The Split (1968)
, 1h30
Directed by Gordon Flemyng
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris, Gene Hackman, Jack Klugman, Warren Oates
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.0048753.0048753.0048753.0048753.004875
McClain, un gangster afro-américain, revient à Los Angeles après deux ans d'absence. Il retourne habiter chez Elly, son ex-femme et prend contact avec Gladys, une ancienne complice qui lui propose d'organiser un hold-up. Il s'agit de voler la recette d'un grand stade de Los Angeles pendant un match de football. Il ne reste plus qu'à recruter des complices, de préférence des professionnels du crime. Un quatuor, trié sur le volet, est donc engagé. Le jour dit, l'opération se déroule sans anicroche et McClain dépose le butin dans l'appartement de son ex-femme. Peu de temps après, leur voisin, un certain Herb Sutro, fait irruption chez eux en l'absence de McClain et tente de violer Ellie avant de l'abattre.
Point Blank, 1h32
Directed by John Boorman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Prison films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Se déroulant à Alcatraz
Actors Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Strong
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72% 3.647273.647273.647273.647273.64727
Walker (Lee Marvin) works together with his friend Mal Reese (John Vernon in his first major role) to steal a large amount of cash from a courier transporting funds for a major gambling operation, with the deserted Alcatraz island as a drop point. Reese then double-crosses Walker by shooting him, leaving him for dead. Reese also makes off with Walker's wife Lynne (Sharon Acker).
Hot Rods to Hell
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Jeffrey Byron, Charles P. Thompson, Liz Renay
Roles Set Decoration
Rating54% 2.7031752.7031752.7031752.7031752.703175
Traveling salesman Tom Phillips (Dana Andrews) is driving home to Boston, Massachusetts for Christmas when he encounters a drunken driver on a rain-streaked road. He cannot avoid a collision, and is hospitalized with spinal damage. Since he cannot be a traveling salesman anymore, his brother arranges for Tom to buy a remote motel in the desert town of Mayville, California. Tom is reluctant, since he has never been an innkeeper before—but in the end he decides that he must travel in order to get as far away from the site of his accident as possible, as soon as possible.
Penelope
Penelope (1966)
, 1h37
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Carl Ballantine, Jerome Cowan, Jonathan Winters
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61% 3.0978353.0978353.0978353.0978353.097835
Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) is the wife of wealthy banker James Elcott (Ian Bannen). Penelope decides to disguise herself as an old woman and rob her husband's bank. While the police, including Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee (Peter Falk), rush to get to the bank, Penelope escapes in a red wig and yellow suit. She donates some of the stolen money to a Salvation Army worker and donates the suit to a second-hand thrift shop. Con artists Sabada (Lila Kedrova) and Ducky (Lou Jacobi) immediately recognize the suit as an original designer outfit from Paris, and purchase it for a mere $7.
The Sandpiper, 1h58
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber, Tom Drake
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.100173.100173.100173.100173.10017
Laura Reynolds (Taylor) is a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son Danny (Morgan Mason) in an isolated California beach house. She makes a modest living as an artist and home-schools her son out of concern that he will be compelled to follow stifling conventional social norms in a regular school. Danny has gotten into some trouble with the law through two minor incidents, which are in his mother's eyes innocent expressions of his natural curiosity and conscience rather than delinquency. Now with a third incident a judge (Torin Thatcher) orders her to send the boy to an Episcopal boarding school where Dr. Edward Hewitt (Burton) is headmaster, and his wife Claire (Eva Marie Saint) teaches. Edward and Claire are happily married with two young sons, but their life has become routine and their youthful idealism has been tamed by the need to raise funds for the school and please wealthy benefactors.
Goodbye Charlie, 1h57
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Pat Boone, Joanna Barnes, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Gabel
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.047913.047913.047913.047913.04791
Hollywood writer Charlie Sorrel (Harry Madden) is shot and killed by Hungarian film producer Sir Leopold Sartori (Walter Matthau) when he is caught fooling around with Sartori's wife. Later, passerby Bruce Minton III (Pat Boone) comes to the aid of a dazed woman (Debbie Reynolds) wandering on a beach. She doesn't remember much other than directions to Charlie's residence.
The Hook
The Hook (1963)
, 1h38
Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams, Robert Walker Jr., Nehemiah Persoff, William Challee, William Challee
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.2415353.2415353.2415353.2415353.241535
During the Korean War, a group of American soldiers aboard a ship capture the enemy pilot of a plane they have shot down. They are ordered by headquarters to execute the prisoner.
The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1h57
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill, Vito Scotti
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.3950853.3950853.3950853.3950853.395085
Young Eddie Corbett (Ron Howard) tries his best to be a matchmaker for his widowed father, Tom (Glenn Ford). At first, sexy Dollye Daly (Stella Stevens) seems promising, but she ends up falling in love with and marrying Tom's friend and radio colleague, Norman Jones (Jerry Van Dyke).
The Wheeler Dealers, 1h47
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Elliott Reid
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.2464453.2464453.2464453.2464453.246445
Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick) is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by sexist Bullard Bear (Jim Backus). When the company does poorly, he has to fire somebody. Molly is the obvious choice, but to avoid charges of sex discrimination, he assigns her the seemingly impossible task of unloading shares of an obscure company called Universal Widgets, figuring that when she fails, he will have an excuse to dismiss her.
Two Weeks in Another Town, 1h47
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton, Tony Randall, Claire Trevor
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.1955853.1955853.1955853.1955853.195585
Once an established movie star, Jack Andrus has hit rock bottom. An alcoholic, he has been divorced by wife Carlotta, has barely survived a car crash and has spent three years in a sanitarium recovering from a nervous breakdown.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 2h33
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Glenn Ford, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.243643.243643.243643.243643.24364
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le conflit entre les deux branches, l'une française et l'autre allemande, dont est issue une famille argentine, sur fond de nazisme et d'occupation de Paris.