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Victor A. Gangelin is a Set Decoration American born on 4 march 1899 at Milwaukee
Victor A. Gangelin (4 March 1899 – 2 April 1967) was an American feature film and television set decorator. He won an Academy Award (shared with Boris Leven) in 1962 for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color for West Side Story. Gangelin was also nominated for another Oscar (with Mark-Lee Kirk) in 1945 for Best Art Direction-Interior Direction, Black-and-White for Since You Went Away.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Victor Arthur Gengelin, a Russian immigrant, and Elizabeth (Goetz) Gangelin, a German immigrant. The younger Victor Gangelin's brother was screenwriter Paul Gangelin.
Victor Gangelin married former silent-screen actress and model Majel Coleman sometime prior to 1940. Coleman earned several screen credits in the 1920s, including feature films by famed director Cecil B. Demille, most notably the epic The King of Kings.
He served as a set director and assistant department head at Warner Brothers studio. Along with his Academy Award-nominated films, his 47 film and television credits include the John Wayne epics The Searchers and The Alamo as well as episodes of The Roy Rogers Show and My Mother the Car. His last credit was the 1966 film Duel at Diablo starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier.
Gangelin died at age 68 in Los Angeles, California.
Entretemps, citons Depuis ton départ de John Cromwell (1944, avec Claudette Colbert et Jennifer Jones), La Prisonnière du désert de John Ford (1956, avec John Wayne et Jeffrey Hunter), Le Fier Rebelle de Michael Curtiz (1958, avec Alan Ladd et Olivia de Havilland), Alamo de John Wayne (1960, avec le réalisateur et Richard Widmark), West Side Story de Robert Wise et Jerome Robbins (1961, avec Natalie Wood et Richard Beymer), ou encore Police spéciale de Samuel Fuller (1964, avec Constance Towers et Virginia Grey).
Après une première nomination à l'Oscar des meilleurs décors en 1945 pour Depuis ton départ, il le gagne en 1962 pour West Side Story.
Pour la télévision, Victor A. Gangelin contribue à un téléfilm (1958) et à cinq séries, dont La Grande Vallée (épisode pilote, 1965) et Une mère pas comme les autres (intégrale des trente épisodes, 1965-1966).
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Victor A. Gangelin (4 March 1899 – 2 April 1967) was an American feature film and television set decorator. He won an Academy Award (shared with Boris Leven) in 1962 for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color for West Side Story. Gangelin was also nominated for another Oscar (with Mark-Lee Kirk) in 1945 for Best Art Direction-Interior Direction, Black-and-White for Since You Went Away.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Victor Arthur Gengelin, a Russian immigrant, and Elizabeth (Goetz) Gangelin, a German immigrant. The younger Victor Gangelin's brother was screenwriter Paul Gangelin.
Victor Gangelin married former silent-screen actress and model Majel Coleman sometime prior to 1940. Coleman earned several screen credits in the 1920s, including feature films by famed director Cecil B. Demille, most notably the epic The King of Kings.
He served as a set director and assistant department head at Warner Brothers studio. Along with his Academy Award-nominated films, his 47 film and television credits include the John Wayne epics The Searchers and The Alamo as well as episodes of The Roy Rogers Show and My Mother the Car. His last credit was the 1966 film Duel at Diablo starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier.
Gangelin died at age 68 in Los Angeles, California.
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Au cinéma, Victor A. Gangelin contribue à quarante-sept films américains (dont des westerns), le premier sorti en 1936. Le dernier est La Bataille de la vallée du diable de Ralph Nelson (avec James Garner et Sidney Poitier), sorti en 1966, année précédant sa mort.Entretemps, citons Depuis ton départ de John Cromwell (1944, avec Claudette Colbert et Jennifer Jones), La Prisonnière du désert de John Ford (1956, avec John Wayne et Jeffrey Hunter), Le Fier Rebelle de Michael Curtiz (1958, avec Alan Ladd et Olivia de Havilland), Alamo de John Wayne (1960, avec le réalisateur et Richard Widmark), West Side Story de Robert Wise et Jerome Robbins (1961, avec Natalie Wood et Richard Beymer), ou encore Police spéciale de Samuel Fuller (1964, avec Constance Towers et Virginia Grey).
Après une première nomination à l'Oscar des meilleurs décors en 1945 pour Depuis ton départ, il le gagne en 1962 pour West Side Story.
Pour la télévision, Victor A. Gangelin contribue à un téléfilm (1958) et à cinq séries, dont La Grande Vallée (épisode pilote, 1965) et Une mère pas comme les autres (intégrale des trente épisodes, 1965-1966).
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Duel at Diablo (1966)
, 1h43Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers, John Hubbard
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64%
While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg (James Garner), rescues Ellen Grange (Bibi Andersson) from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange (Dennis Weaver). The couple have been on the move since two years before, when Ellen Grange had been kidnapped by Apaches and rescued. The townsfolk treated her as an outcast because, in captivity, she had a child by an Indian warrior.
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
, 1h52Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about religion
Actors Hayley Mills, Rosalind Russell, June Harding, Binnie Barnes, Marge Redmond, Camilla Sparv
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72%
The movie is set at St. Francis Academy (also the name of the school in Sister Act 2), a fictional all-girls Catholic boarding school in Pennsylvania, operated by an order of nuns. Rosalind Russell plays the Mother Superior, who spends the movie at odds with Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills), a rebellious teenager, and her misery-loves-company friend Rachel Devry (June Harding). The episodic storyline follows the young women through their sophomore, junior and senior high-school years. After spending much of the film resenting the authority of the Mother Superior, Mary receives the "call" senior year and, after graduation, remains at the school in the novitiate of the order.
The Naked Kiss (1964)
, 1h30Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly, Edy Williams
Roles Set Decoration
Rating71%
Kelly (Constance Towers) is a prostitute who shows up in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police chief Griff (Anthony Eisley), who then tells her to stay out of his town and refers her to a cat-house just across the state line.
Promises! Promises! (1963)
, 1h15Directed by King Donovan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Jayne Mansfield, Marie McDonald, Tommy Noonan, Mickey Hargitay, Fritz Feld, Eddie Quillan
Roles Set Decoration
Rating49%
Sandy Brooks (Mansfield) is desperate to get pregnant, but her husband Jeff (Tommy Noonan), a television script writer, is too stressed out to make love to her. In an attempt at a sea change, they go on a pleasure cruise and meet another couple, Claire and King Banner (Marie McDonald and Mickey Hargitay). Both couples set out on a drunken spree. They end up changing partners when retiring to their rooms. Later both women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find whether the fathers are their own or the other's husband.
Toys in the Attic (1963)
, 1h30Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Gene Tierney, Wendy Hiller, Yvette Mimieux, Nan Martin
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66%
Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. Julian tells them that while his factory went out of business, he did manage to save money. While the sisters are skeptical, there is much talk of a long-hoped-for trip to Europe for the two sisters.
Diary of a Madman (1963)
, 1h36Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Lewis Martin, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe, Stephen Roberts
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62%
Following the funeral of Simon Cordier (Vincent Price), a French magistrate and amateur sculptor, his secret diary is read out by Simon's pastor friend to a group of people gathered around the table, Simon's servants, and a police captain. The diary transpires that Simon has come into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible yet corporeal being, called a horla is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
Sergeants 3 (1962)
, 1h52Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Poésie, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Ruta Lee
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59%
L'action se déroule à Medicine Bend, une bourgade sur les hauteurs montagneuses du Dakota. Attaquée par des Indiens, la personne chargée du télégraphe a le temps, avant sa mort, d'envoyer un message au fort McClelland. Le colonel Collingwood, le commandant du fort, envoie sur place une escouage dirigée par trois amis : les sergents Merry, Deal et Barrett. Un ancien esclave noir, qui souhaite s'engager dans l'U.S. Cavalry, les suit malgré l'interdiction qui lui en a été signifiée. Une fois arrivés à Medicine Bend, l'équipe ne trouve aucune trace des habitants et sont attaqués par les guerriers de Mountain Hawk.
West Side Story (1961)
, 2h32Directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Gangster films
Actors Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Marni Nixon, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Roles Set Decoration
Rating75%
In the West Side's Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan, there is tension between an Anglo gang, the Jets, led by Riff, and a Puerto Rican gang of immigrants, the Sharks, led by Bernardo. After a brawl erupts ("Prologue"), Lieutenant Schrank and Officer Krupke arrive and break it up, warning both gangs to cease fighting or pay. Despite the warning, the Jets decide to challenge the Sharks to a rumble for neighborhood control at an upcoming dance.
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
, 1h55Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Hoot Gibson, Ken Curtis, Bing Russell
Roles Set Dresser
Rating70%
A Union cavalry brigade, led by Colonel John Marlowe (John Wayne), is sent on a raid behind Confederate lines to destroy a railroad and supply depot at Newton Station. Before the war, Marlowe had been a railroad building engineer. With the troop is a new regimental surgeon, Major Henry Kendall (William Holden), who seems to be constantly at odds with his commander. Kendall is torn between duty and the horror of war.
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 Set Decoration
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 Set Decoration
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).
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Directed by Charles F. Haas, H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Scatman Crothers, Maurice Marsac, Bruce Lester
Roles Set Decoration
Rating48%
The idyllic jungle life of Tarzan (Gordon Scott), Jane (Eve Brent) and Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) is interrupted by a drum message telling them of predatory hunters loose in the jungle. Tarzan disrupts the animal-collecting expedition of the hunters, Schroeder (Lesley Bradley) and Rene (Maurice Marsac); he frees a baby elephant whose mother they have killed and then leads the elephant herd against them when they make hostages of Tartu and Cheeta the chimp. Afterwards he warns off two other hunters, Sikes (Saul Gorse) and Lapin (William Keene), seeking to plunder the lost city of Zarbo. He is attacked by their men, but escapes and shadows their party. Aware of Tarzan's continued presence, the hunters capture his native friend Tyana (Sherman Crothers), and trap the ape man when he tries to free him. Tyana's tribe rescues the two. Finally, the hunters reach Zarbo, but find it empty of both people and treasure. In a final conflict, Tarzan overcomes the villains, who are then turned over to the authorities by the natives.
Time Limit (1957)
, 1h36Directed by Karl Malden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Prison films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Dolores Michaels, June Lockhart, Martin Balsam, Carl Benton Reid
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72%
Army Colonel William Edwards (Richard Widmark) is investigating the case of Major Harry Cargill (Richard Basehart), accused of collaborating with the enemy while he and his unit were held captive in a North Korean prisoner of war camp. Cargill willingly admits his guilt and brings forth evidence that proves that he signed a germ-warfare confession and broadcast anti-American speeches over the radio, seemingly an act of treason.
Gun the Man Down (1956)
, 1h14Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime, Western
Actors James Arness, Angie Dickinson, Robert J. Wilke, Emile Meyer, Don Megowan, Harry Carey, Jr.
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62%
Three outlaws rob a bank, but one of them is wounded. His two partners kidnap his girlfriend take his share of the money and run off, leaving him to be captured by the sheriff. Years later, after he gets out of prison, he goes in search of his double-crossing partners and his girlfriend. He finds them in a semi-deserted, run-down town, but instead of killing them right away, he decides to play cat-and-mouse with them first.
The Searchers (1956)
, 1h58Directed by John Ford, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond, John Qualen
Roles Set Decoration
Rating77%
It is 1868. Ethan Edwards (Wayne) returns after an eight-year absence to the home of his brother Aaron (Walter Coy) in the wilderness of West Texas. Ethan fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, and in the three years since that war ended he apparently fought in the Mexican revolutionary war as well. He has a large quantity of gold coins of uncertain origin in his possession, and a medal from the Mexican campaign that he gives to his eight-year-old niece, Debbie (played as a child by Lana Wood). As a former Confederate soldier, he is asked to take an oath of allegiance to the Texas Rangers; he refuses. As Rev. Captain Samuel Clayton (Ward Bond) remarks, Ethan "fits a lot of descriptions".