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Frank R. McKelvy is a Set Decoration American born on 24 january 1914 at Pennsylvania (USA)

Frank R. McKelvy

Frank R. McKelvy
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 january 1914 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Death 18 february 1980 (at 66 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Frank R. McKelvy (24 January 1914 – 18 February 1980) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Best films

Earthquake (1974)
(Set Decoration)
The Black Hole (1979)
(Set Decoration)
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
(Set Decoration)
The Hindenburg (1975)
(Set Decoration)
North by Northwest (1959)
(Set Decoration)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
(Set Decoration)

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Filmography of Frank R. McKelvy (50 films)

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Art

The Black Hole, 1h38
Directed by Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Psychologie, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Space opera, Children's films, Robot films, Lobotomie
Actors Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.9492552.9492552.9492552.9492552.949255
Nearing the end of a long mission exploring deep space, the spacecraft USS Palomino is returning to Earth. The crew consists of Captain Dan Holland, First Officer Lieutenant Charlie Pizer, journalist Harry Booth, ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae, the expedition's civilian leader Dr. Alex Durant and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary CENTralized").
Hot Lead & Cold Feet, 1h30
Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Don Knotts, Darren McGavin, Karen Valentine, Jim Dale, Jack Elam, John Williams
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9997452.9997452.9997452.9997452.999745
Jasper Bloodshy (Dale) runs the rough-and-tumble town of Bloodshy—named after him because he founded it—which lives in fear of Jasper's gunslinging son Wild Billy (also played by Dale). Jasper has just found out he has another son named Eli (again, played by Dale), who lives in Philadelphia.
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, 1h44
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Fox
Roles Set Decoration
Rating56% 2.8058252.8058252.8058252.8058252.805825
The film stars Dean Jones as returning champion race car driver Jim Douglas, joined by his somewhat cynical and eccentric riding mechanic Wheely Applegate (Don Knotts). Together with Herbie, the "Love Bug", a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, they are participating in the fictional Trans-France Race, from Paris, France, to Monte Carlo, Monaco. According to dialogue, they hope to stage a racing comeback in the event.
Another Man, Another Chance, 2h12
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Farnsworth, Christopher Lloyd
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.147263.147263.147263.147263.14726
France in 1870: Napoleon III has just lost the war against Prussia and left the country in poverty.
Gus
Gus (1976)
, 1h36
Directed by Vincent McEveety, Arthur Alsberg, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, American football films, Children's films
Actors Don Knotts, Edward Asnere, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Timothy Brown, Harold Gould
Roles Set Decoration
Rating57% 2.853482.853482.853482.853482.85348
Gus is a film about a football-kicking mule ("Gus") and his trainer "Andy" (Gary Grimes).
Treasure of Matecumbe, 1h57
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Johnny Doran, Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Jane Wyatt
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61% 3.0548853.0548853.0548853.0548853.054885
En 1869, Davie Burnie découvre l'existence d'un trésor enfoui dans les marais de Floride. Il demande à Thad, un de ses amis, de l'aider à le retrouver. Seulement le trésor est également convoité par Spangler et ses hommes...
No Deposit, No Return, 1h47
Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Children's films
Actors David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi, Charles Martin Smith, Barbara Feldon
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.193883.193883.193883.193883.19388
It is the beginning of the Easter holidays for brother and sister Tracy and Jay. However, it begins with disappointment as they hear their mother, whom they had expected to pick them up from school, is in fact in Hong Kong. Before she left, she made plans that the two children spend the vacation with their grandfather, Los Angeles billionaire J. W. Osborne. This does not excite the children, a reaction equal to that of Osborne himself, who has bad experiences with the children, and takes steps to ensure the same level of chaos is not repeated.
The Hindenburg, 1h45
Directed by Robert Wise, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.1495953.1495953.1495953.1495953.149595
Kathie Rauch (Ruth Schudson), a psychic from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sends a letter to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. claiming the Hindenburg zeppelin will explode after flying over New York. In the meantime, Luftwaffe Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) boards with the intention of protecting the Hindenburg as various threats have been made to down the airship, which some see as a symbol of Nazi Germany.
Earthquake
Earthquake (1974)
, 2h3
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9517552.9517552.9517552.9517552.951755
Stewart Graff (Heston) is jogging near the Hollywood Sign. Back home, his wife Remy Royce-Graff (Gardner),a foul-mouthed bitter woman, starts her morning by picking a fight with him. After he has showered and is preparing to leave, Stewart finds Remy unconscious with a bottle of pills nearby. Accustomed to her periodic suicide attempts, Stewart prepares to induce vomiting when a violent tremor shakes the bedroom. Remy bolts out of bed, revealing that she was faking.
Charley and the Angel, 1h33
Directed by Vincent McEveety, Christopher Hibler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan, Kathleen Cody, Kurt Russell, Scott Kolden
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9968752.9968752.9968752.9968752.996875
Charley Appleby is a hardware store owner whose frugality and commitment to his job have enabled his family to avoid poverty during the Great Depression and Prohibition. However, his relationship with his children and wife Nettie (Cloris Leachman) is strained. They especially want to go to see the Chicago World's Fair. His growing sons Willie and Rupert (Vincent Van Patten and Scott Kolden) manage to find work in a junkyard owned by a man named Felix with ties to bootleggers, and his teenage daughter Leonora (Kathleen Cody) decides to elope with a young man named Ray (Kurt Russell), who seems untrustworthy.
Now You See Him, Now You Don't, 1h28
Directed by Robert Butler, Christopher Hibler, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Johnny Flynn, Jim Backus, William Windom
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.100573.100573.100573.100573.10057
At Medfield College, science buff Dexter Riley and his friends, including Richard Schuyler and Debbie Dawson, eavesdrop via a hidden walkie-talkie on a board meeting led by Dean Eugene Higgins, discussing the small college's continuing precarious finances. Later that afternoon, Professor Lufkin shows Higgins around the science lab where Dexter is working on an experiment with invisibility and another student, Druffle, explores the flight of bumblebees. That night, unknown to anyone, during a powerful thunderstorm, the roof of the lab is struck by lightning, sending a current of electricity down a metal beam and through Dexter's complex experiment components. The next day, as Dexter examines his burnt equipment with dismay, Higgins meets with A. J. Arno, a recently released prisoner, who had also purchased Medfield's mortgage. When Dexter accidentally drops one half of his glasses into a container of his experimental formula, it appears as if the substance destroys them, but upon closer examination, Dexter realizes the frames are merely partially invisible. After several excited tests, Dexter boldly places his fingers in the liquid and they disappear. Schuyler and Debbie arrive and are horrified to see Dexter with a partial hand, but Dexter insists Schuyler test the substance as well, admitting only afterward that he does not yet have an antidote.
The Barefoot Executive, 1h36
Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about television, Films about apes, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Joe Flynn, Wally Cox, Johnny Flynn, Heather North, John Ritter, Harry Morgan
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.9481652.9481652.9481652.9481652.948165
A satire of network television, the movie follows the adventures of an ambitious mailroom clerk, Steven Post (Russell) at the fictional UBC Network who discovers his girlfriend Jennifer Scott's (Heather North) pet chimpanzee has the supernatural ability to predict which television programs will receive the highest ratings, in which he blows a raspberry to shows that will bomb, or claps his hands in applause to shows that will be hits.
The Boatniks, 1h40
Directed by Norman Tokar, Christopher Hibler, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films, Children's films
Actors Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell, Mickey Shaughnessy, Wally Cox
Roles Set Decoration
Rating55% 2.753572.753572.753572.753572.75357
U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Jordan (Joey Forman) responds to a number of pleas for help from civilian pleasure boat sailors off the coast of Southern California. This type of event is typical of what the Coast Guard deals with on a regular basis, and is one of the reasons why Jordan has requested to transfer to a new station. He is handing over the reins to Ensign Tom Garland (Robert Morse), a polite but remarkably clumsy fellow who will now report to Commander Taylor (Don Ameche), a man who fought in World War II with Garland's father and holds him in high regard.
Rascal
Rascal (1969)
, 1h25
Directed by Norman Tokar, Christopher Hibler, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Steve Forrest, Bill Mumy, Elsa Lanchester, Henry Jones, Bettye Ackerman, John Fiedler
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.1878953.1878953.1878953.1878953.187895
The movie is a dramatization of Sterling North's 1963 "memoir of a better era." Born near Edgerton, Wisconsin, North was a former literary editor for newspapers in Chicago and New York City. The movie relates a year in the life of young Sterling North (portrayed by Bill Mumy) and his "ringtailed wonder" pet raccoon, Rascal. Although set in Wisconsin, circa 1917, the movie was filmed in California.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, 2h
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Dance films, Films about suicide
Actors Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Gig Young, Susannah York, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia
Roles Set Decoration
Rating77% 3.8978153.8978153.8978153.8978153.897815
Robert Syverton (Michael Sarrazin), who once dreamed of being a great film director, recalls the events leading to an unstated crime. In his youth, he saw a horse break its leg, after which it was shot and put out of its misery. Years later, in 1932 during the Great Depression, he wanders into a dance marathon about to begin in the shabby La Monica Ballroom, perched over the Pacific Ocean on the Santa Monica Pier, near Los Angeles. He is recruited by MC (Master of Ceremonies) Rocky (Gig Young) as a substitute partner for a cynical malcontent named Gloria (Jane Fonda), when her original partner is disqualified because of an ominous cough.