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Maurice James Pelling is a Art Direction British born on 1920

Maurice James Pelling

Maurice James Pelling
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1920
Death 7 june 1973 (at 53 years)

Maurice Pelling was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cleopatra.

Best films

Goldfinger (1964)
(Assistant Art Director)
Cleopatra (1963)
(Art Direction)
A King in New York (1957)
(Draughtsman)

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Filmography of Maurice James Pelling (12 films)

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Art

Charley-One-Eye, 1h36
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Aldo Sambrell, Patrick Mower, David Lodge
Roles Art Direction
Rating58% 2.943322.943322.943322.943322.94332
Après avoir tué un officier, un soldat noir, Ben, est contraint de déserter l'armée et il est aussitôt traqué par elle et les Mexicains. Perdu dans le désert, il rencontre un Indien taiseux et solitaire affligé d'un pied-bot, Taureau-Assis, qui ne parle qu'à son animal de compagnie, un poulet surnommé "Charley le borgne". Le déserteur et l'Indien, malgré leur caractère différent, se lient d'amitié. Ils se réfugient à côté d’une petite église abandonnée. Lorsque Ben est capturé par un odieux chasseur de primes raciste, l'Indien, jusqu'ici peu loquace, prend les armes et part à son secours.
Julius Caesar, 1h46
Directed by David Bradley, Stuart Burge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, David Bradley, John Gielgud, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Vaughn
Roles Art Direction
Rating62% 3.133233.133233.133233.133233.13323
Jules César, empereur romain, a bien du mal à gouverner avec le sénat. son propre fils complote contre lui. Assassiné, Marc Antoine prononce un discours qui monte la foule contre les agresseurs.
Julius Caesar, 1h56
Directed by Stuart Burge
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain
Roles Art Direction
Rating60% 3.04793.04793.04793.04793.0479
Jules César, empereur romain, a bien du mal à gouverner avec le sénat. son propre fils complote contre lui. Assassiné, Marc Antoine prononce un discours qui monte la foule contre les agresseurs.
Play Dirty
Play Dirty (1969)
, 1h58
Directed by André de Toth
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews, Patrick Jordan, Daniel Pilon
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.3456053.3456053.3456053.3456053.345605
In North Africa in World War II, Captain Douglas (Caine) is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee handling incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army. A Popski's Private Army-style colonel (Green) is told he must have a regular officer to lead one of his units on a dangerous mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot.
Berserk!
Berserk! (1967)
, 1h36
Directed by Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Circus films
Actors Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Judy Geeson, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Robert Hardy
Roles Art Direction
Rating53% 2.654132.654132.654132.654132.65413
Un cirque itinérant, dirigé par Monica Rivers, subit une série de drames; plusieurs de ses artistes trouvant la mort au cours de représentations. Et il parait évident qu'il ne s'agit pas d'accidents. Alors qui est le meurtrier ?
Goldfinger
Goldfinger (1964)
, 1h45
Directed by Michael G. Wilson, Guy Hamilton, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Harold Sakata
Roles Assistant Art Director
Rating76% 3.846943.846943.846943.846943.84694
After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—agent 007—travels to Miami Beach where he receives instructions from his superior, M, via CIA agent Felix Leiter to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger, who is staying at the same hotel as Bond. The agent sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, and blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship; however, Bond is subsequently knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob. When Bond regains consciousness, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, having died from "epidermal suffocation".
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Roles Art Direction
Rating70% 3.500123.500123.500123.500123.50012
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
Peeping Tom, 1h41
Directed by Michael Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about films, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Serial killer films
Actors Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Shirley Anne Field, Pamela Green
Roles Draughtsman
Rating75% 3.797763.797763.797763.797763.79776
Mark Lewis meets Dora, a prostitute, covertly filming her with a camera hidden under his coat. Shown from the point of view of the camera viewfinder, tension builds as he follows the woman into her home, murders her and later watches the film in his den as the credits roll on the screen.
Sea of Sand, 1h37
Directed by Guy Green
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Michael Craig, John Gregson, Richard Attenborough, Percy Herbert, Barry Foster, Vincent Ball
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.344033.344033.344033.344033.34403
On the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, Captain Tim Cotton leads a patrol on a raid to destroy a German fuel dump located deep behind enemy lines. Captain Williams of the Royal Engineers is posted to Cotton's patrol to deal with a minefield surrounding a German petrol dump. As a regular soldier, Williams takes time to adjust to the non-regulation way the LRDG operates.
A King in New York, 1h47
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Michael Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Shani Wallis
Roles Draughtsman
Rating69% 3.4969853.4969853.4969853.4969853.496985
"One of the minor annoyances in modern life is a revolution." Due to a revolution in his country Estrovia, King Igor Shahdov (Charlie Chaplin) comes to New York City with almost no money, his securities having been stolen by his own Prime Minister. He tries to contact the Atomic Energy Commission with his ideas for using atomic power to create a utopia.
The Man from Morocco
Directed by Mutz Greenbaum
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Political films
Actors Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris, Reginald Tate, David Horne, Hartley Power
Roles Draughtsman
Rating55% 2.7862352.7862352.7862352.7862352.786235
A group of men who have spent two years in an internment camp are sent by the Vichy Government to build a railway in the Sahara. One escapes and returns to London to find his lover believes him to be dead and that she is being pursued by his deadliest enemy.