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John Bryan

Eric John Bryan Pratt (12 August 1911 – 10 June 1969), known professionally as John Bryan, was a British art director and film producer.

John Bryan was born in Kensington, London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1948. He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947 and for Becket in 1965. Bryan also won a BAFTA for Becket.

In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.

He died from cancer at a hospital in Thames Ditton, Surrey, on 10 June 1969.

Contents

  • 1 Filmography
    • 1.1 Art director
    • 1.2 Producer
  • 2 References
  • 3 External links

Filmography

Art director

  • Colonel Blood (1934)
  • Murder by Rope (1936)
  • Hearts of Humanity (1936)
  • The Captain's Table (1936)
  • Men of Yesterday (1936)
  • Things to Come (1936, *istant)
  • The Song of the Road (1937)
  • The Last Curtain (1937)
  • Talking Feet (1937)
  • Stepping Toes (1938)
  • Pygmalion (1938)
  • Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
  • On the Night of the Fire (1939)
  • Stolen Life (1939)
  • The Spider (1940)
  • Major Barbara (1941)
  • Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
  • King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
  • Dear Octopus (1943)
  • Millions Like Us (1943)
  • The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
  • Time Flies (1944)
  • Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
  • Love Story (1944)
  • Two Thousand Women (1944)
  • The Wicked Lady (1945)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
  • The Magic Bow (1946)
  • Caravan (1946)
  • Great Expectations (1946)
  • The Root of All Evil (1947)
  • Take My Life (1947)
  • Blanche Fury (1948)
  • Oliver Twist (1948)
  • The P*ionate Friends (1949)
  • Madeleine (1950)
  • Golden Salamander (1950)
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
  • The Magic Box (1951)
  • Becket (1964)
  • Great Catherine (1968)

Producer

  • The Card (1952)
  • The Million Pound Note (1954)
  • The Purple Plain (1954)
  • The Spanish Gardener (1956)
  • The Secret Place (1957)
  • Windom's Way (1957)
  • The Horse's Mouth (1958)
  • There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
  • The Girl on the Boat (1962)
  • Tamahine (1963)
  • After the Fox (1966)
  • The Touchables (1968)

References

    External links

    • John Bryan at IMDb
    1968–present
    • Ernest Archer, Harry Lange and Anthony Masters (1968)
    • Donald M. Ashton (1969)
    • Mario Garbuglia (1970)
    • Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971)
    • Rolf Zehetbauer (1972)
    • Natasha Kroll (1973)
    • John Box (1974)
    • John Box (1975)
    • Geoffrey Kirkland (1976)
    • Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977)
    • Joe Alves (1978)
    • Michael Seymour (1979)
    • Stuart Craig (1980)
    • Norman Reynolds (1981)
    • Lawrence G. Paull (1982)
    • Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983)
    • Roy Walker (1984)
    • Norman Garwood (1985)
    • Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986)
    • Santo Loquasto (1987)
    • Dean Tavoularis (1988)
    • Dante Ferretti (1989)
    • Richard Sylbert (1990)
    • Bo Welch (1991)
    • Catherine Martin (1992)
    • Andrew McAlpine (1993)
    • Dante Ferretti (1994)
    • Michael Corenblith (1995)
    • Tony Burrough (1996)
    • Catherine Martin (1997)
    • Dennis G*ner (1998)
    • Rick Heinrichs (1999)
    • Arthur Max (2000)
    • Aline Bonetto (2001)
    • Dennis G*ner (2002)
    • William Sandell (2003)
    • Dante Ferretti (2004)
    • Stuart Craig (2005)
    • Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland and Jennifer Williams (2006)
    • Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007)
    • Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008)
    • Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair (2009)
    • Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (2010)
    • Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011)
    • Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012)
    • Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013)
    • Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014)
    • Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015)
    • Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016)
    • Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau (2017)
    • Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018)
    • Dennis G*ner and Lee Sandales (2019)
    • Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020)
    • Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021)