Hans Dreier

Known for ArtBorn 1885-08-21Died 1966-10-24Bremen, Germany

Hans Dreier was a German motion picture art director. He was Paramount Pictures' supervising art director from 1927 until his retirement in 1950. Hans Dreier was born in Bremen, Germany in 1885. After studying architecture in Munich, Germany, Dreier worked as imperial supervising architect of the German Cameroon. During World War I, he served in the German Lancers. He began his career in German film in 1919 as an assistant designer at UFA Studios. At the urging of German director Ernst Lubitsch, Dreier relocated to Hollywood in 1923 to work at Paramount Pictures. His first Hollywood film was Forbidden Paradise, directed by Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri. Dreier worked as Paramount's supervising art director from 1927 until his retirement in 1950. He made contributions to nearly 500 films during his lengthy career, including many films directed by Joseph Von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch, as well as the film It's a Gift (1934) starring W. C. Fields. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his art direction on 23 occasions. He won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Color) for Frenchman's Creek (1944) and Samson and Delilah (1950). He also won the award for Art Direction (Black and White) for Sunset Boulevard (1950).Read more

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Ladies' Man

I Want a Divorce

What a Life

Night of Mystery

Easy to Take

Ladies of the Mob

Figures of the Night

Kurfürstendamm

Seelenverkäufer

Der letzte Zeuge

Lilli

Lillis Ehe

The Trouble with Women

Cross My Heart

Seventeen

Victory

Cocoanut Grove

Wives Never Know

Manolescu's Memoirs

Miss Susie Slagle's

New York Town

Night Work

Sunset Boulevard

Double Indemnity

Hazard

The Searching Wind

Out of This World

True to Life

The Good Fellows

Those Were the Days!

Disbarred

Our Leading Citizen

Turn Off the Moon

Partners in Crime

Sophie Lang Goes West

Wild Money

Three Married Men

The Sky Parade

Woman Trap

Early to Bed

Ship Cafe

The Whirlwind of Passion

Florentinische Nächte

Die Stimme

Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin

The Woman House of Brescia

Isn't It Romantic?

The Lost Weekend