- Known For
- Art
- Born
- August 3, 1906
- Place of Birth
- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- Died
- December 5, 1993
Alexandre Trauner
Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer. After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Admiral Horthy. In Paris, he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, at the studios in Épinay-sur-Seine working on such films as À nous la liberté (1932) and La Kermesse héroïque (1935). In 1937, he became a chief set designer. Trauner worked with director Marcel Carné for some years on such films as Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes, 1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945). Trauner worked in hiding on Children of Paradise, which was filmed at the Victorine Studios in Nice during 1943 and 1944 during the Nazi's Occupation of France. He w…
Filmography
movieThe Rainbow Thief
1994 · Production Design
movieLove Comedy
1989 · Production Design
movieReunion
1989 · Caretaker, Production Design
movieThe Bengali Night
1988 · Art Direction
movie'Round Midnight
1986 · Production Design
movieBefore Midnight
1986 · Self (archive footage)
movieSubway
1985 · Production Design, Art Direction
movieSo Long, Stooge
1983 · Production Design
movieThe Train Killer
1983 · Production Design
movieThe Trout
1982 · Production Design
movieCoup de Torchon
1981 · Production Design
movieLe Roi des cons
1981 · Le vieux monsieur au petit chien
movieThe Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980 · Production Design
movieDon Giovanni
1979 · Production Design, Art Direction
movieFedora
1978 · Production Design
Regie: Billy Wilder
movieRegie: Billy Wilder
1978 · Self
movieRoads to the South
1978 · Production Design
movieMr. Klein
1976 · Art Direction
movieThe Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Production Design
movieImpossible Object
1973 · Production Design
moviePromise at Dawn
1970 · Production Design
movieThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · Production Design
movieUptight
1968 · Production Design
movieA Flea in Her Ear
1968 · Production Design
movieThe Night of the Generals
1967 · Production Design
The Birth of Children of Paradise
movieThe Birth of Children of Paradise
1967 · Self
movieHow to Steal a Million
1966 · Production Design
movieKiss Me, Stupid
1964 · Production Design
movieBehold a Pale Horse
1964 · Production Design, Associate Producer
movieIrma la Douce
1963 · Producer, Art Direction, Production Design
movieFive Miles to Midnight
1962 · Production Design, Art Direction
movieOne, Two, Three
1961 · Art Direction
movieParis Blues
1961 · Art Direction
movieGoodbye Again
1961 · Production Design, Art Direction
movieThe Apartment
1960 · Art Direction
movieOnce More, with Feeling!
1960 · Production Design
movieThe Great Deception
1959 · Production Design
movieThe Nun's Story
1959 · Art Direction
movieBe Beautiful and Shut Up
1958 · Production Design
movieParis mange son pain
1958 · Self
movieWitness for the Prosecution
1957 · Production Design, Art Direction
movieThe Happy Road
1957 · Art Direction
movieLove in the Afternoon
1957 · Artist (uncredited), Art Direction, Production Design
moviePlucking the Daisy
1956 · Production Design
movieLand of the Pharaohs
1955 · Production Design
movieRififi
1955 · Production Design
Torticola versus Frankensberg
movieTorticola versus Frankensberg
1952 · Art Direction
movieThe Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Production Design
movieThe Green Glove
1952 · Art Direction
movieOthello
1951 · Production Design
movieChicago Digest
1951 · Art Direction, Production Design
movieJuliette, or Key of Dreams
1951 · Production Design
movieMystery Tour
1947 · Production Design
movieGates of the Night
1946 · Production Design
movieSophie's Misfortune
1946 · Production Design
movieChildren of Paradise
1945 · Production Design
movieSummer Light
1943 · Production Design
movieStormy Waters
1941 · Production Design
movieDaybreak
1939 · Production Design
movieHôtel du Nord
1938 · Art Direction, Production Design
movieThe Curtain Rises
1938 · Head Decorator
moviePort of Shadows
1938 · Production Design
movieHatred
1938 · Art Direction, Production Design
movieBizarre, Bizarre
1937 · Production Design
movieZouzou
1934 · Production Design
movieL'Âge d'or
1930 · Production Design