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John B. Mansbridge is a Production Design American born on 20 march 1917

John B. Mansbridge

John B. Mansbridge
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 march 1917
Death 11 january 2016 (at 98 years)

John B. Mansbridge (born March 20, 1917) was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Biography

Au début des années 1960, le studio Disney engage John Mansbridge pour construire à l'arrière du studio de Burbank, à l'est, un ensemble de décors permanents comprenant une rue résidentielle des années 1920, une place de centre ville et une rue de style western. Son premier crédit chez Disney est L'Incroyable Randonnée, film sorti en 1963.

Best films

Splash (1984)
(Art Direction)
The Love Bug (1968)
(Art Direction)
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
(Art Direction)
The Black Hole (1979)
(Art Direction)
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
(Art Direction)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
(Art Direction)

Usually with

Herb Taylor
Herb Taylor
(20 films)
Emile Kuri
Emile Kuri
(16 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John B. Mansbridge (69 films)

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Art

Stone Cold
Stone Cold (1991)
, 1h35
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, Richard Gant, Paulo Tocha, Illana Shoshan
Roles Production Design
Rating60% 3.0499753.0499753.0499753.0499753.049975
Brian Bosworth stars as Joe Huff, a tough Alabama cop who is frustrated with a system that handles criminals with kid gloves. Currently, Joe is on suspension for displaying excessive violence toward criminals.
My Science Project, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors John Stockwell, Danielle von Zerneck, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper, Richard Masur
Roles Art Direction
Rating59% 2.9530052.9530052.9530052.9530052.953005
The movie begins in 1957 with a scene of a United States military operation to secure a crashed UFO in a hangar bay. A man, (President Dwight D. Eisenhower; played by Robert Beer), enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to "get rid of it."
Country
Country (1984)
, 1h45
Directed by Richard Pearce
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Jessica Lange, Sandra Seacat, James N. Harrell
Roles Art Direction
Rating65% 3.2969853.2969853.2969853.2969853.296985
Gilbert "Gil" Ivy (Sam Shepard) and his wife Jewell (Jessica Lange) have worked Jewell's family farm for years, and her father Otis (Wilford Brimley) doesn't want to see his family farm lost to foreclosure. However, low crop prices, pending FHA loans and a tornado all put pressure on the struggling family as they face hardship and the prospect of losing their home and livelihood.
Frankenweenie, 29minutes
Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Films about dogs, Frankenstein films, Comedy horror films, Cyberpunk films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver, Joseph Maher, Paul Bartel, Sofia Coppola
Roles Art Direction
Rating71% 3.595023.595023.595023.595023.59502
Victor Frankenstein (played by Barret Oliver) is a young boy who creates movies starring his dog, Sparky (a Bull Terrier, whose name is a play on the use of electricity in the film). After Sparky is hit by a car, Victor learns at school about electrical impulses in muscles and is inspired to bring his pet back to life. He creates elaborate machines which bring down a bolt of lightning that revives the dog. While Victor is pleased, his neighbors are terrified by the animal, and when the Frankensteins decide to introduce the revitalized Sparky to them they become angry and terrified.
Splash
Splash (1984)
, 1h51
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman, Richard B. Shull
Roles Art Direction
Rating62% 3.149663.149663.149663.149663.14966
As an eight-year-old boy, Allen Bauer (David Kreps) is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a sight-seeing tour on a small boat, he gazes into the ocean and sees something below the surface that fascinates him, while his older brother Freddie Bauer is walking around the boat fascinated by the women. Allen jumps into the water, even though he cannot swim. He grasps the hands of a girl who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. Allen can now breathe under water as he is in the hands of a mermaid. However, Allen is pulled to the surface by the deck hands and the two are separated, though apparently no one else sees the girl. After the ferry moves off, Allen looks back at the girl, who dives underwater showing her mermaid's tail. Allen comes to believe the encounter was a near-death hallucination, but his bond with the mermaid proves so strong that his subsequent relationships with women fail as he seeks the connection he felt with the mermaid.
Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1h35
Directed by Jack Clayton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Circus films, Films based on science fiction novels, Children's films
Actors Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Ellen Geer, Richard Davalos
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.3473553.3473553.3473553.3473553.347355
In Greentown, Illinois, a small town enjoying the innocence of an upcoming autumn as the days grow shorter, two young boys—reserved Will Halloway and somewhat rebellious Jim Nightshade—leave from an after-school detention for "whispering in class" and hurry off for home. When the boys hear about a strange traveling carnival, Mr. Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, from a lightning-rod salesman, they decide to see what it is all about, but Will is fearful, as most carnivals end their tours after Labor Day. When the ominous Mr. Dark, the Illustrated Man, rides into town on a dark midnight, setting up his massive carnival in a matter of seconds, the boys are both thrilled and terrified. It seems to be just another carnival at first, but it is not long before the forces of darkness begin to manifest from the haunting melodies of the carousel—which can change your age depending on which way you ride it—and from the glaring Mirror Maze. With his collection of freaks and oddities, Dark intends to take control of the town and seize more innocent souls to damn. It will take all the wit and hope of the two boys to save their families and friends, with aid from an unlikely ally, Will's father, the town librarian, who understands more than anyone else that "something wicked this way comes.
Tex
Tex (1982)
, 1h43
Directed by Tim Hunter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Ben Johnson, Frances Lee McCain
Roles Art Direction
Rating63% 3.197193.197193.197193.197193.19719
A coming-of-age adventure about two brothers (Matt Dillon and Jim Metzler) struggling to make it on their own when their mother dies and their father leaves them in their Oklahoma home.
Tron
Tron (1982)
, 1h36
Directed by Steven Lisberger
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Transport films, Superhero films, Sécurité informatique, Films about video games, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Chase films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Peter Jurasik
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.3499553.3499553.3499553.3499553.349955
Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM, who now runs an arcade bar called Flynn's. He wrote several video games, but another ENCOM engineer, Ed Dillinger (David Warner), stole them and passed them off as his own, earning himself a series of promotions until reaching Senior Executive VP. Having left the company, Flynn attempts to obtain evidence of Dillinger's actions by hacking the ENCOM mainframe, but is repeatedly stopped by the Master Control Program (MCP), an artificial intelligence written by Dillinger. However, since its inception the MCP has become power-hungry, illegally appropriating business and even government programs and absorbing them to increase its own capacities; it informs Dillinger of its plans to subjugate The Pentagon and the Kremlin, and expresses interest in China with its request for Chinese-translation programs, blackmailing Dillinger into compliance with records of his theft of the games.
Amy
Amy (1981)
, 1h40
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Chris Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, Nanette Fabray, Frances Bay
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.202233.202233.202233.202233.20223
Amy Medford (Jenny Agutter) is a dutiful housewife of the early 1900s. But when her husband Elliot (Chris Robinson) objects to a wife with a career, Amy leaves her husband and comfortable lifestyle. She goes on to devote her life to teaching sight-and-hearing-impaired students at a tradition-bound special school. Amy teaches the impaired students how to speak, most of the students have never heard their own name. Amy's students take on a team of "normal" kids at a football game.
Herbie Goes Bananas, 1h30
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Jack Perkins, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, John Vernon
Roles Art Direction
Rating49% 2.4568052.4568052.4568052.4568052.456805
Loosely picking up where Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo left off, protagonist Pete Stancheck (Stephen W. Burns) has inherited Herbie from Jim Douglas, and travels to Mexico (Puerto Vallarta) with his friend Davy "D.J." Johns (Charles Martin Smith) to retrieve the car. There, they befriend Paco (Joaquin Garay, III), a comically mischievous, orphaned pickpocket.
Midnight Madness, 1h52
Directed by Ronald William Miller, Michael Nankin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors David Naughton, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Furst, Maggie Roswell, Eddie Deezen, Andy Tennant
Roles Production Design
Rating62% 3.145893.145893.145893.145893.14589
Leon (Alan Solomon), a genius, summons five college students to his apartment and challenges them to participate in his latest game creation: The Great All-Nighter. He tells them about his game and instructs them to form teams. At first, the leaders refuse to play. However, rivalries between them lead all five to change their minds by the game's start time.
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Dick O'Neill, Victor French, Louise Latham, Monte Markham, Ruta Lee, Vito Scotti
Roles Production Design
Rating56% 2.813252.813252.813252.813252.81325
When a 100-year-old military academy falls on hard times and is forced to merge with a school for girls, the academy's resident ghosts (Dick O'Neill, Victor French and Louise Latham) are outraged and aroused from their sleep to seek justice. Outraged by this disrespect of tradition, the spirits are further appalled by a modern world of equal rights for women, rock 'n' roll as well as the dishonest designs a wealthy matron (Ruta Lee) has for the school. Honor-bound "to defend these hallowed halls", the ghost trio declares war on the living who are involved in their own battle of the sexes.
The North Avenue Irregulars, 1h40
Directed by Bruce Bilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine, Cloris Leachman
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.345593.345593.345593.345593.34559
Reverend Michael Hill (Edward Herrmann) and his two children arrive in New Rochelle, New York as the new minister at North Avenue Presbyterian Church. The secretary/music director for the church, Anne (Susan Clark), is wary of the changes Hill intends to implement. Hill wants to get people involved, and asks Mrs. Rose Rafferty (Patsy Kelly, in her final movie role) to handle the church's sinking fund.
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 Art Direction
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").
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, 1h29
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Jack Elam, Elyssa Davalos
Roles Art Direction
Rating60% 3.0031253.0031253.0031253.0031253.003125
Amos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts), a pair of bumbling holdup men now going straight, arrive in the "boom town" of Junction City to start anew. But the duo end up causing havoc while getting cheated out of their money by two bank robbers named Wes Hardin (Osmond) and Hank Starrett (Gehring). Things worsen when Amos and Theodore end up being suspected of the robbery and end up on the run from the town's feared lawman Marshal Wooly Bill Hitchcock (Mars), who developed a personal vendetta toward Amos and Theodore after they accidentally humiliated and injured the marshal on two occasions. To escape Hitchcock's vengeance, ditching their donkey Clarise as she was used by the robbers, the Amos and Theodore enlist in the US Cavalry at Fort Concho. But the duo's bunglings and a run-in with a now insane marshal, who found them by following Clarise, result in the fort being burned to the ground. The following day, the fort commander Major Gaskill (Morgan) is relieved of his position while Amos and Theodore are placed in a military jail.