Carl Jules Weyl
Carl Jules Weyl (6 December 1890 – 12 July 1948) was a German architect and art director. He designed or co-designed six contributing properties in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, won a Best Art Direction Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood, and was nominated in the same category for Mission to Moscow.
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Carl Jules Weyl
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- Name
- Carl Jules Weyl
- Born
- 6 December 1890
- Birthplace
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Died
- 12 July 1948
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, US
- Occupation
- Architect Art director
- Spouse
- Irma Lois Chase (divorced)
- Nationality
- Germany and United States.
- Honours
- Academy Award for Best Production Design.
- Languages
- German.
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Carl Jules Weyl (6 December 1890 – 12 July 1948) was a German architect and art director. He designed or co-designed six contributing properties in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, won a Best Art Direction Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood, and was nominated in the same category for Mission to Moscow.
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Carl Jules Weyl (1890–1948) was a German and American architect, art director and production designer, among other activities. Born in Stuttgart, the architect died in Los Angeles.
Languages used include German. Works by Carl Jules Weyl are held at National Gallery of Victoria. The architect received Academy Award for Best Production Design.
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• Name — Carl Jules Weyl • Other Names — Karl Felix Julius Weyl • Born — 6 December 1890 • Birthplace — Stuttgart, Germany • Died — 12 July 1948 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, US • Occupation — Architect Art director • Years Active — 1926–1929 (architect) 1930–1947 (art director) • Spouse — Irma Lois Chase (divorced)
Early life and education
Early life and education
Weyl was born in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Karl Friedrich Weyl, was an architect and field engineer of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel through the Alps. Carl Jules Weyl studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris after architectural training in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Munich. He served as a first lieutenant of infantry in the German Reichswehr, according to his World War I draft registration card. Weyl immigrated to the US on 31 March 1912, according to his 1933 petition for citizenship, on the SS Königin Luise (1896).
Architect and art director
Architect and art director
Weyl worked as an architect in California, first for John W. Reid Jr. in San Francisco, then in Los Angeles after he moved there in 1923. When the Great Depression hit and building commissions dried up, Weyl joined Cecil B. DeMille Productions as an art director, then he joined Warner Brothers in the same position. Weyl initially worked as an assistant to Anton Grot and Robert M. Haas. His first set for Warner Bros was the fountain in Footlight Parade.
Buildings
Buildings
• Illustration — Baine Building • Illustration — Hollywood Studio Building Together with Henry L. Gogerty (1894-1990), he designed numerous buildings in Hollywood, California, including: • Palace Theater (1926), NRHP-listed • Baine Building (1926), NRHP-listed • Hollywood Studio Building (1927), NRHP-listed • 6356 Sunset Blvd. (1927) • 6600 Sunset Blvd. (1928) • Fred C. Thomson Building (1928), LAHCM No. 1196 Other buildings in Los Angeles designed by Weyl include: • Hollywood Brown Derby (1928), NRHP-listed • Herman Building (1928), NRHP-listed • Christie Realty Building (1928), NRHP-listed • York Boulevard State Bank
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• The Florentine Dagger (1935) • Bullets or Ballots (1936) • Kid Galahad (1937) • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) • Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) • The Letter (1940) • The Great Lie (1941) • Kings Row (1942) • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) • Casablanca (1942) • Mission to Moscow (1943) • Passage to Marseille (1944) • The Corn Is Green (1945) • The Big Sleep (1946) • Escape Me Never (1947)
Personal life
Personal life
Weyl was best man at the Beverly Hills wedding of film comedian Harry Langdon in 1929.
Identity
Identity
Carl Jules Weyl is recorded as art director, production designer, theatre designer and architect.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1890
Carl Jules Weyl born at Stuttgart.
1948
Carl Jules Weyl died at Los Angeles.
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- 1.Germany, select births and baptisms, 1558–1898 on ancestry.com
- 2.1930 US Census, 1940 US Census
- 3.National Park Service. Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District. April 4, 1985.
- 4.The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners. Oscars.org.
- 5.The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners. Oscars.org.
- 6.Out of the Fountain. New York Times. 3 October 1943
- 7.French Normandy Design Employed. Los Angeles Times – 23 November 1930
- 8.Winter, Robert. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles. Gibbs Smith. 2009. 978-1-4236-0893-6.
- 9.City of Los Angeles. Historic Resources Survey Report - Hollywood Redevelopment Plan Area. January 28, 2020.
- 10.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Carl Jules Weyl Sr. (Architect)
- 11.Los Angeles City Planning Department. Fred C. Thomson Building. August 15, 2019.
- 12.City of Los Angeles. Historical Cultural Monuments List.
- 13.Harry Langdon, film star, to wed, 27 July. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) Tuesday, 16 July 1929 Page 8
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Carl Jules Weyl received Academy Award for Best Production Design. A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
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Work by Carl Jules Weyl is
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