Identité
Genre : homme
Fonctions : Décorateur, Directeur artistique, Créateur des décors
Biographie
Formation :
Hans Dreier débute une carrière d’architecte en Afrique du Sud, avant de faire ses armes au cinéma, en 1919, dans les studios UFA de Berlin.
Carrière :
Décorateur et directeur artistique sur plus de 500 films entre 1919 et 1951, Hans Dreier travaille d’abord en Allemagne avant de devenir l’un des décorateurs les plus prolifiques d’Hollywood.
Hans Dreier est le décorateur de la démesure. Il met ses compétences d’architecte au service de films nécessitant des décors monumentaux, comme ceux de Josef von Sternberg ou de Cecil B. DeMille. Sa carrière débute en 1919 en Allemagne, où il signe les décors de Der Reigen (Richard Oswald, 1920) et de Danton (Dimitri Buchowetzky, 1921). Les films de cette période se distinguent par leurs décors modernes dans lesquels Dreier applique avec inspiration les lois de la perspective. En 1923, il émigre aux Etats-Unis, où il travaille sur les décors d’une centaine de films pour la Paramount. Il se distingue rapidement en faisant de ses décors un élément constitutif du climat du film, expression visuelle et plastique de son univers et de son atmosphère. Dreier s’adapte avec une efficacité notable aux styles des réalisateurs et des différents genres cinématographiques. Il travaille une douzaine de fois pour Ernst Lubitsch, notamment sur Paradis défendu (1924) et La Huitième Femme de Barbe-Bleue (1937). Ses décors confèrent à ses films une dimension européenne. Il prête également ses talents aux œuvres de Josef von Sternberg (Les Nuits de Chicago, 1927 ; La Femme et le Pantin, 1934). Cléopâtre (1934) et Samson et Dalila (1948), grands péplums de Cecil B. DeMille, ne seraient rien sans son coup de griffe. Jusqu’à la fin de sa carrière, en 1951, il travaille pour les studios Paramount.
Filmographie
Courts métrages
Directeur artistique
- 1933 - Tillie and Gus
- 1937 - Born to the West
- 1938 - Arrest Bulldog Drummond
- 1939 - Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
- 1939 - Disbarred
- 1939 - Bulldog Drummond's Bride
- 1939 - Television Spy
- 1939 - Emergency Squad
- 1940 - Parole Fixer
- 1942 - True to the Army
- 1943 - The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
Longs métrages
Créateur des décors
- 1919 - Nachtgestalten
- 1919 - Seelenverkäufer
- 1919 - Der Teufel und die Madonna
- 1920 - Kurfürstendamm - Ein Höllenspuk in 6 Akten
- 1921 - Danton
- 1921 - Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
- 1928 - The Patriot
- 1928 - Street of Sin
- 1929 - Thunderbolt
- 1931 - An American Tragedy
- 1932 - Trouble in Paradise
Décorateur
- 1920 - Fridericus Rex
- 1921 - Lady Hamilton
- 1923 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Directeur artistique
- 1924 - Forbidden Paradise
- 1927 - The Legion of the Condemned
- 1927 - Underworld
- 1928 - The Dragnet
- 1928 - The Last Command
- 1928 - The Docks of New York
- 1929 - The Love Parade
- 1929 - The Case of Lena Smith
- 1930 - Monte Carlo
- 1930 - Morocco
- 1931 - Love Me Tonight
- 1931 - One Hour with You
- 1931 - The Smiling Lieutenant
- 1931 - Dishonored
- 1931 - Confessions of a Co-Ed
- 1932 - A Farewell to Arms
- 1932 - Shanghai Express
- 1933 - Too Much Harmony
- 1933 - This Day and Age
- 1933 - Design for Living
- 1933 - Bolero
- 1933 - White Woman
- 1933 - I'm no Angel
- 1933 - Duck Soup
- 1934 - The Notorious Sophie Lang
- 1934 - Cleopatra
- 1934 - Now and Forever
- 1934 - Good Dame
- 1934 - Thirty day princess
- 1934 - Search for Beauty
- 1934 - Ready for Love
- 1934 - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- 1934 - Limehouse Blues
- 1934 - Murder at the Vanities
- 1934 - You're Telling Me
- 1934 - Come on Marines !
- 1934 - Belle of the Nineties
- 1934 - Six of a Kind
- 1934 - It's a Gift
- 1934 - Ruggles of Red Gap
- 1934 - Enter Madame !
- 1934 - She Loves Me Not
- 1934 - Ladies Should Listen
- 1934 - Car 99
- 1934 - The Devil Is a Woman
- 1934 - Kiss and Make-Up
- 1934 - Here Is My Heart
- 1934 - The Pursuit of happiness
- 1934 - The Last Round-Up
- 1934 - We're Not Dressing
- 1934 - Little Miss Marker
- 1934 - Father Brown, Detective
- 1934 - Menace
- 1935 - Man on the Flying Trapeze
- 1935 - Wings in the Dark
- 1935 - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- 1935 - Peter Ibbetson
- 1935 - The Bride Comes Home
- 1935 - Accent on Youth
- 1935 - Millions in the Air
- 1935 - Timothy's Quest
- 1935 - Stolen Harmony
- 1935 - Two for Tonight
- 1935 - People Will Talk
- 1935 - The Milky Way
- 1935 - Rumba
- 1935 - Goin' to Town
- 1935 - The Big Broadcast of 1936
- 1935 - The Last Outpost
- 1935 - Four Hours to Kill !
- 1935 - The Glass Key
- 1935 - Hands Across the Table
- 1935 - Paris in Spring
- 1935 - Coronado
- 1935 - Desire
- 1936 - Souls at Sea
- 1936 - Bulldog Drummond Escapes
- 1936 - The Big Broadcast of 1937
- 1936 - Anything Goes
- 1936 - Early to Bed
- 1936 - Internes Can't Take Money
- 1936 - Lady Be Careful
- 1936 - I Met Him in Paris
- 1936 - Klondike Annie
- 1936 - Rhythm on the Range
- 1936 - Straight from the shoulder
- 1936 - And Sudden Death
- 1936 - Yours for the Asking
- 1936 - Three Cheers for Love
- 1936 - Too Many Parents
- 1936 - Thirteen Hours by Air
- 1936 - My American Wife
- 1936 - Rose Bowl
- 1936 - Hideaway Girl
- 1936 - The Princess Comes Across
- 1936 - Easy to Take
- 1936 - Wedding present
- 1936 - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
- 1936 - Maid of Salem
- 1936 - Rose of the Rancho
- 1936 - The Accusing finger
- 1936 - Three Married Men
- 1936 - Here Comes Cookie
- 1936 - Border flight
- 1936 - College Holiday
- 1936 - Arizona Mahoney
- 1936 - Murder With Pictures
- 1936 - Wives Never Know
- 1936 - Girl of the Ozarks
- 1936 - The Texas Rangers
- 1936 - The Plainsman
- 1937 - Thunder Trail
- 1937 - Moutain Music
- 1937 - The Buccaneer
- 1937 - Turn off the Moon
- 1937 - Bulldog Drummond's Peril
- 1937 - Easy Living
- 1937 - Angel
- 1937 - Wells Fargo
- 1937 - Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
- 1937 - Make Way for Tomorrow
- 1937 - Sophie Lang goes west
- 1937 - Champagne Waltz
- 1937 - Wild Money
- 1937 - Artists and Models
- 1937 - Clarence
- 1937 - Night Club Scandal
- 1937 - Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
- 1937 - Waikiki Wedding
- 1937 - Let's Make a Million
- 1937 - Swing High, Swing Low
- 1937 - Partners in Crime
- 1937 - Thrill of a Lifetime
- 1937 - Daughter of Shanghaï
- 1937 - Dangerous to Know
- 1937 - Forlorn River
- 1937 - Romance in the Dark
- 1937 - Exclusive
- 1937 - Blonde Trouble
- 1937 - The Crime Nobody Saw
- 1937 - Double or Nothing
- 1937 - Murder Goes to College
- 1937 - Hotel Haywire
- 1937 - Scandal Street
- 1937 - Her Jungle Love
- 1938 - Artists and Models Abroad
- 1938 - If I Were King
- 1938 - You and Me
- 1938 - Tropic Holiday
- 1938 - Prison Farm
- 1938 - Touchdown, Army
- 1938 - Tom Sawyer, Detective
- 1938 - College Swing
- 1938 - The Big Broadcast of 1938
- 1938 - The Arkansas Traveler
- 1938 - Never Say Die
- 1938 - Thanks for the Memory
- 1938 - Campus Confessions
- 1938 - The Texans
- 1938 - Spawn of the North
- 1938 - Give Me a Sailor
- 1938 - Hunted Men
- 1938 - Cocoanut Grove
- 1938 - Cafe Society
- 1938 - Ride a Crooked Mile
- 1938 - Union Pacific
- 1938 - Hotel Imperial
- 1939 - Boy Trouble
- 1939 - The Night of Nights
- 1939 - Night Work
- 1939 - Zaza
- 1939 - The Gracie Allen Murder Case
- 1939 - Grand Jury Secrets
- 1939 - Honeymoon in Bali
- 1939 - The Lady's from Kentucky
- 1939 - Midnight
- 1939 - Persons in Hiding
- 1939 - I'm from Missouri
- 1939 - Ambush
- 1939 - The Star Maker
- 1939 - Saint Louis Blues
- 1939 - Our Leading Citizen
- 1939 - Beau Geste
- 1939 - Paris Honeymoon
- 1939 - Some Like It Hot
- 1939 - Man About Town
- 1939 - The Magnificent Fraud
- 1939 - Invitation to Happiness
- 1939 - The Light That Failed
- 1939 - Remember the Night
- 1939 - Sudden Money
- 1939 - The Great Victor Herbert
- 1939 - Disputed Passage
- 1939 - Million Dollar Legs
- 1939 - The Cat and the Canary
- 1939 - Death of a Champion
- 1939 - $1,000 a Touchdown
- 1939 - Rulers of the Sea
- 1939 - Undercover Doctor
- 1939 - King of Chinatown
- 1939 - Island of Lost Men
- 1939 - All Women Have Secrets
- 1939 - Unmarried
- 1939 - Our neighbors, the Carters
- 1939 - What a Life
- 1939 - North West Mounted Police
- 1940 - Arise My Love
- 1940 - Geronimo
- 1940 - The Ghost Breakers
- 1940 - Those Were the Days
- 1940 - Golden Gloves
- 1940 - Christmas in July
- 1940 - The Lady Eve
- 1940 - Comin' Round the Mountain
- 1940 - The Biscuit eater
- 1940 - The Quarterback
- 1940 - The Great McGinty
- 1940 - Love Thy Neighbor
- 1940 - Dancing on a Dime
- 1940 - Rhythm on the River
- 1940 - I Want a Divorce
- 1940 - The Farmer's Daughter
- 1940 - Seventeen
- 1940 - Women Without Names
- 1940 - Texas Rangers Ride Again
- 1940 - The Shepherd of the Hills
- 1940 - A Night at Earl Carroll's
- 1940 - Opened by Mistake
- 1940 - Untamed
- 1940 - Queen of the Mob
- 1940 - Rangers of Fortune
- 1940 - Safari
- 1940 - The Way of All Flesh
- 1940 - Typhoon
- 1940 - Adventure in Diamonds
- 1941 - Bahama Passage
- 1941 - Among the Living
- 1941 - Reap the Wild Wind
- 1941 - There's Magic in Music
- 1941 - Road to Zanzibar
- 1941 - Hold Back the Dawn
- 1941 - Buy Me That Town
- 1941 - Kiss the Boys Goodbye
- 1941 - World Premiere
- 1941 - Caught in the Draft
- 1941 - New York Town
- 1941 - Life with Henry
- 1941 - Virginia
- 1941 - Reaching for the Sun
- 1941 - Sullivan's Travels
- 1941 - Henry Aldrich for President
- 1941 - West Point Widow
- 1941 - Fly by Night
- 1941 - Nothing but the Truth
- 1941 - The Mad Doctor
- 1941 - Skylark
- 1941 - Glamour Boy
- 1941 - I Wanted Wings
- 1941 - The Monster and the Girl
- 1941 - The Great Man's Lady
- 1941 - Las Vegas Nights = The Last Frontier Town
- 1941 - The Night of January 16th
- 1941 - You're the One
- 1941 - Sweater Girl
- 1942 - I Married a Witch
- 1942 - Dr. Broadway
- 1942 - The Forest Rangers
- 1942 - The Fleet's in
- 1942 - The Palm Beach Story
- 1942 - This Gun for Hire
- 1942 - Star Spangled Rhythm
- 1942 - Priorities on Parade
- 1942 - Henry Aldrich, editor
- 1942 - Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch
- 1942 - The Remarkable Andrew
- 1942 - Wake Island
- 1942 - Young and Willing
- 1942 - The Crystal Ball
- 1942 - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- 1942 - Road to Morocco
- 1942 - China
- 1942 - The Major and the Minor
- 1943 - The Uninvited
- 1943 - Happy Go Lucky
- 1943 - Henry Aldrich haunts a house
- 1943 - No Time for Love
- 1943 - Hostages
- 1943 - Riding High
- 1943 - Going My Way
- 1943 - The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- 1943 - Five Graves to Cairo
- 1943 - Hail the Conquering Hero
- 1943 - Ministry of Fear
- 1943 - Let's Face It
- 1943 - So Proudly We Hail
- 1943 - The Good fellows
- 1943 - Henry Aldrich gets glamour
- 1943 - Lady Bodyguard
- 1943 - Night Plane from Chungking
- 1943 - Salute for Three
- 1943 - The Story of Dr. Wassell
- 1943 - Double Indemnity
- 1943 - The Hitler Gang
- 1943 - Ministry of Fear
- 1944 - The Unseen
- 1944 - National Barn Dance
- 1944 - Rainbow Island
- 1944 - The Great Moment
- 1944 - Practically Yours
- 1944 - The Hour Before the Dawn
- 1944 - You can't ration love
- 1944 - Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
- 1944 - The Man in half moon street
- 1944 - Our hearts were young and gay
- 1944 - The Lost Week-end
- 1944 - Love Letters
- 1944 - Standing Room Only
- 1944 - Two Years Before the Mast
- 1945 - The Searching Wind
- 1945 - California
- 1945 - Kitty
- 1945 - Masquerade in Mexico
- 1945 - To Each His Own
- 1945 - Murder, He Says
- 1945 - Out of this World
- 1945 - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- 1945 - The Bride Wore Boots
- 1945 - The Blue Dahlia
- 1945 - Bring on the Girls
- 1945 - A medal for Benny
- 1945 - Calcutta
- 1946 - Variety Girl
- 1946 - The Emperor Waltz
- 1946 - Our hearts were growing up
- 1946 - The Virginian
- 1946 - The Well Groomed Bride
- 1946 - Saigon
- 1946 - Unconquered
- 1947 - Blaze of Noon
- 1947 - Cross My Heart
- 1947 - I Walk Alone
- 1947 - The Paleface
- 1947 - Where There's Life
- 1947 - Dear Ruth
- 1947 - My Favorite Brunette
- 1947 - The Imperfect Lady
- 1947 - Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- 1947 - The Big Clock
- 1947 - A Foreign Affair
- 1948 - Chicago Deadline
- 1948 - Samson and Delilah
- 1948 - Song of Surrender
- 1948 - The Accused
- 1948 - Streets of Laredo
- 1948 - Sorry, Wrong Number
- 1949 - Appointment with Danger
- 1949 - Copper Canyon
- 1949 - September Affair
- 1949 - Dear Wife
- 1949 - No Man of Her Own
- 1949 - The Furies
- 1949 - The Great Gatsby
- 1949 - A Place in the Sun
- 1949 - My Friend Irma
- 1949 - Rope of Sand
- 1949 - Red, Hot and Blue
- 1949 - The File on Thelma Jordon
- 1949 - Sunset Boulevard
- 1949 - Riding High
- 1950 - Mister Music
- 1950 - Union Station
- 1950 - My Friend Irma Goes West
- 1950 - Dark City
- 1960 - Return to Peyton Place
Bibliographie éditoriale
- Ouvrage : The art of Hollywood : fifty years of art direction / devised and produced by J. Hambley and P. Downing ; designed by P. Downing and G. Guest ; assist. prod. L. Lloyd Jones. - London : Thames Television, 1979
- Ouvrage : Designs on film : a century of Hollywood art direction / Cathy Whitlock; The Art Directors Guild. - [S.l.] : Itbooks, 2010
Récompenses et nominations
- 1951 - Oscar de la meilleure direction artistique pour un film en noir et blanc - AMPAS - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, 1949 - Obtenu
- 1951 - Oscar de la meilleure direction artistique pour un film en couleur - AMPAS - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Samson et Dalila, Cecil B. DeMille, 1948 - Obtenu
- 1946 - Oscar de la meilleure direction artistique pour un film en couleur - AMPAS - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Aventure vient de la mer (L'), Mitchell Leisen, 1944 - Obtenu