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| rdfs:comment | - Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, (born Klaus Hugo Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German-born British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove.
- Ken Adam war über lange Jahre Produktionsdesigner für die Bondfilme. Von ihm stammen unter anderem der Vulkan aus Man lebt nur zweimal und das Innenleben des Tankers aus Der Spion, der mich liebte. Weltbekannt ist auch die Kulisse des Konferenzraums in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Seltsam. Seine Sets haben Heute Kultstatus und haben sehr viel zum Erfolg und Flair der Bondfilme beigetragen.
- Adam's designs for the film were further developed and illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie but the film was eventually shelved during pre-production. [4] Adam is best known for his now-iconic set designs for Dr. Strangelove and seven James Bond films including You Only Live Twice and Moonraker. As the set designer for the Bond films, he was known for integrating futurism with classical design elements. This approach continued under his successor, Peter Lamont. Ken Adam is one of the few German nationals who served in the UK's Royal Air Force during World War II.
- Ken Adam is a legendary production designer and art director, whose film credits include Dr. Strangelove and seven James Bond films. A German Jew born in Berlin in 1921, Adam left Germany at age 12 after Adolf Hitler took over. He arrived in England where he studied architecture and served in the Royal Air Force during WWII. In 1947, Adam entered the British film industry as an assistant art director on such period pictures as Captain Horatio Hornblower (1950) and Helen Of Troy (1956). He was a full art director for the European-filmed sequences of Mike Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and became a production designer in 1960. He worked on The Trials Of Oscar Wilde produced by Albert "Cubby" Broccolli. Two years later, Broccolli hired him to work on the first James Bond film,
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| abstract | - Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, (born Klaus Hugo Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German-born British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove.
- Ken Adam war über lange Jahre Produktionsdesigner für die Bondfilme. Von ihm stammen unter anderem der Vulkan aus Man lebt nur zweimal und das Innenleben des Tankers aus Der Spion, der mich liebte. Weltbekannt ist auch die Kulisse des Konferenzraums in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Seltsam. Seine Sets haben Heute Kultstatus und haben sehr viel zum Erfolg und Flair der Bondfilme beigetragen.
- Adam's designs for the film were further developed and illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie but the film was eventually shelved during pre-production. [4] Adam is best known for his now-iconic set designs for Dr. Strangelove and seven James Bond films including You Only Live Twice and Moonraker. As the set designer for the Bond films, he was known for integrating futurism with classical design elements. This approach continued under his successor, Peter Lamont. Ken Adam is one of the few German nationals who served in the UK's Royal Air Force during World War II.
- Ken Adam is a legendary production designer and art director, whose film credits include Dr. Strangelove and seven James Bond films. A German Jew born in Berlin in 1921, Adam left Germany at age 12 after Adolf Hitler took over. He arrived in England where he studied architecture and served in the Royal Air Force during WWII. In 1947, Adam entered the British film industry as an assistant art director on such period pictures as Captain Horatio Hornblower (1950) and Helen Of Troy (1956). He was a full art director for the European-filmed sequences of Mike Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and became a production designer in 1960. He worked on The Trials Of Oscar Wilde produced by Albert "Cubby" Broccolli. Two years later, Broccolli hired him to work on the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). Inspired by both German Expressionism and the modernist architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Adam succeeding in giving a multimillion-dollar veneer to what was a very economical production. His imaginative work in that film caught the attention of director Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick enlisted him for his production of his nuclear war comedy Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Stopped Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964). His "War Room" remains one of the most memorable sets ever seen on film. In Goldfinger (1964), the story's climax takes place inside the U.S. gold depository at Fort Knox. Adam was denied access to the Fort's actual interior, and had to conjure up the contours of the vault from his own imagination. His version of Fort Knox was a "Cathedral of Gold" with stacks and stacks of gold bars. Adam remained with the Bond series until the 1970s, his budget (and his creativity) expanding with each successive feature. In 1975, Adam won an Academy Award for his re-creation of 18th century England in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, and in 1981 he was given "visual consultant" credit for designing a vast Edward Hopper-style cityscape in Herbert Ross' Pennies From Heaven (1991). Among Ken Adams' other most notable achievements has been his brilliant literalization of the creepy cartoon world of Charles Addams in 1993's Addams Family Values. Ken Adam received his second Oscar in 1994 for The Madness of King George.
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