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Jack Okey is a Director of Photography, Art Direction and Art Direction American born on 3 june 1889 at Los Angeles (USA)
John Clark "Jack" Okey (3 June 1889 – 8 January 1963) was an American art director. He was raised in Los Angeles and attended the Harvard School for Boys, where he excelled in sports. After leaving Harvard, he was given instruction in art by his uncle, the California artist, J. Bond Francisco. While he was in his early 20s, he spent several years in Paris studying art. While in Paris, he met a pianist from Indiana, Marie Wilson, whom he married shortly after his return to Los Angeles in 1913. They had one son and two daughters and remained married until her death in October 1961.
Around the time of his marriage, he became involved in the nascent film industry in the Los Angeles area and was involved in the design and construction of some of the earliest studios there. He continued in the film industry as an art director until his retirement in 1959. In the mid-1930s he spent several years in England working for Alexander Korda. After his return to the United States, he spent the remainder of his active career working for RKO Studios.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for the films Sally (1929) and Experiment Perilous (1944).
He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 june 1889 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 8 january 1963 (at 73 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 3 june 1889 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 8 january 1963 (at 73 years) at Hollywood (USA)
John Clark "Jack" Okey (3 June 1889 – 8 January 1963) was an American art director. He was raised in Los Angeles and attended the Harvard School for Boys, where he excelled in sports. After leaving Harvard, he was given instruction in art by his uncle, the California artist, J. Bond Francisco. While he was in his early 20s, he spent several years in Paris studying art. While in Paris, he met a pianist from Indiana, Marie Wilson, whom he married shortly after his return to Los Angeles in 1913. They had one son and two daughters and remained married until her death in October 1961.
Around the time of his marriage, he became involved in the nascent film industry in the Los Angeles area and was involved in the design and construction of some of the earliest studios there. He continued in the film industry as an art director until his retirement in 1959. In the mid-1930s he spent several years in England working for Alexander Korda. After his return to the United States, he spent the remainder of his active career working for RKO Studios.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for the films Sally (1929) and Experiment Perilous (1944).
He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Without Benefit of Clergy (1921)
Directed by James Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Nigel De Brulier, Virginia Brown Faire, Boris Karloff, Percy Marmont, Thomas Holding, Philippe De Lacy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
As summarized in a review, Holden, a young English engineer in India, falls in love with the native girl Ameera, so he buys her from her mother. They live together very happily and she until their baby son dies. Later Ameera dies during a cholera plague.
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The Young Land (1959)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Patrick Wayne, Dennis Hopper, Yvonne Craig, Dan O'Herlihy, Ken Curtis, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Roles Art Direction
Rating54%
In 1848, after the end of the Mexican–American War and with the advent of California statehood, an American gunslinger named Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper) kills a Mexican man in California. He is arrested for the murder by Jim Ellison (Patrick Wayne), a former United States marine and now sheriff with neither a gun nor a badge. Appointed by prominent local businessman and politico Don Roberto de la Madrid (Roberto De La Madrid), Ellison has designs on de la Madrid's spoiled daughter, Elena (Yvonne Craig). By the book Judge Millard Isham (Dan O'Herlihy) arrives in town with Deputy Marshal Ben Stroud (Cliff Ketchum) to conduct the trial. Wanted tough guy Lee Hearn (Ken Curtis) has problems of his own with the law, but is willing to help Ellison as a deputy. Carnes is then placed on trial in the new Mexican Cession territory with the Hispanic populace waiting to learn if American justice will convict Carnes.
The Missouri Traveler (1958)
, 1h43Directed by Jerry Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Brandon deWilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford, Ken Curtis, Kathleen Freeman
Roles Art Direction
Rating62%
Brandon deWilde leads a cast lengthy in character actors playing subdued Biarn Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum bound for Florida in the post-World War I time period of 1926. He receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown (Lee Marvin). There, after an episode in the town square involving most of the populace, he meets crusty newspaper man Doyle Magee (Gary Merrill).
Run of the Arrow (1957)
, 1h22Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Political films
Actors Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Art Direction
Rating65%
Confederate veteran O'Meara (Steiger) refuses to accept defeat following the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. He renounces his family and the United States, travels west and joins the Native American Sioux tribe, and takes a wife (Sara Montiel).
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
, 1h32Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr, Regis Toomey
Roles Art Direction
Rating63%
In the year 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in the Colorado Territory, Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine (Virginia Mayo), who is going there to open a dress shop.
Screaming Eagles (1956)
, 1h19Directed by Charles F. Haas
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Tom Tryon, Jan Merlin, Jacqueline Beer, Alvy Moore, Martin Milner, Patrick Douglas "Pat" Conway
Roles Art Direction
Rating58%
Prior to the Normandy landings three replacements are assigned to the 1st Platoon, "D" Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Amongst them is Private Mason (Tom Tryon) who doesn't get along with his fellow paratroopers but is kept in the unit by his platoon commander Lt. Pauling (Jan Merlin).
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
, 1h32Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres War, Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia, Fanny Schiller, Rodd Redwing
Roles Art Direction
Rating56%
Des cow-boys, des ranchers et des hors-la-loi se font la guerre pour un hypothétique trésor et pour la possession de terres.
Bengazi (1955)
, 1h19Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson, Mala Powers, Richard Erdman, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Roles Art Direction
Rating50%
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
, 1h27Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, Peter van Eyck, George Dolenz, William Bryant
Roles Art Direction
Rating59%
Communist agents in Canada are spying on Dr. Carl Macklin, an atomic physicist whose knowledge they want. To kidnap him, Eric Hartman, the party's top man in Montreal, offers $100,000 to a deported American criminal, Joe Victor.
Split Second (1953)
, 1h25Directed by Dick Powell, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Paul Kelly
Roles Art Direction
Rating67%
Sam Hurley (Stephen McNally) and Bart Moore (Paul Kelly) escape from prison, although Moore is seriously wounded in the breakout. They meet up with a confederate, a mute named "Dummy" (Frank de Kova), and hide out in a ghost town. Along the way, they pick up several hostages, Kay Garven (Alexis Smith) and her lover Arthur Ashton (Robert Paige), reporter Larry Fleming (Keith Andes), dancer "Dottie" Vale (Jan Sterling), and the town's sole resident, Asa Tremaine (Arthur Hunnicutt).
Devil's Canyon (1953)
, 1h32Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Art Direction
Rating54%
Arizona, 1897: A female outlaw, Abby Nixon, warns a lawman, Billy Reynolds, that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds manages to kill both in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon.
At Sword's Point (1952)
, 1h21Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Hale Jr.
Roles Art Direction
Rating60%
The sons (and a daughter) of the original Four Musketeers ride to the rescue of besieged Queen Anne in 1648 France.
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
, 1h39Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, L'Or
Actors Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher, Richard Egan
Roles Art Direction
Rating59%
The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy. Maynard, however, winds up posing as a surgeon on a ship captained by Blackbeard (Robert Newton), who is in the middle of a conflict with Morgan. Blackbeard must deal with Morgan, Maynard, and even his own greedy crew.
The Narrow Margin (1952)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Don Beddoe, Queenie Leonard
Roles Art Direction
Rating75%
Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) of the Los Angeles Police Department and his partner are assigned to protect a mob boss's widow, Mrs. Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She is also carrying a payoff list that belonged to her murdered husband. On the way to pick her up, Brown bets his partner and friend, Sergeant Gus Forbes (Don Beddoe), what she will be like: "She's the sixty cent special. Cheap. Flashy. Strictly poison under the gravy."
One Minute to Zero (1952)
, 1h45Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, Charles McGraw, William Talman, Richard Egan, Margaret Sheridan
Roles Art Direction
Rating58%
Just prior to the North Korean invasion of South Korea, World War II U.S. Army veterans Colonel Steve Janowski (Robert Mitchum) and Sergeant Baker (Charles McGraw) are teaching South Korean soldiers how to use a bazooka to stop an enemy tank. Linda Day (Ann Blyth) is a United Nations worker assisting refugees. Janowski warns Day and her colleagues to leave the area because hostilities are imminent. Day, however, insists that the North Koreans would not risk the wrath of world opinion. In response, Janowski asks her if world opinion stopped Hitler.