Hal Pereira | |
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| Born | (1905-04-29)April 29, 1905 |
| Died | December 17, 1983(1983-12-17) (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | art director andproduction designer |
| Years active | 1944–1968 |
Hal Pereira (April 29, 1905 – December 17, 1983) was an Americanart director,production designer, and occasional architect.
Pereira was born inChicago,Illinois, the brother ofWilliam Pereira and son of Sarah (Friedberg) and Saul Pereira. He was educated at theUniversity of Illinois, after which he started his career in theater design before moving to Los Angelesc. 1941,[1] where he worked as a unitart director forParamount Studios.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, Pereira worked on more than 200 films as anart director andproduction designer. In 1944, he art designedDouble Indemnity, widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time.[2][3][4][5][6] By 1950, Pereira was supervising art director, where he remained until the late 1960s, when Paramount was reorganized byGulf+Western. During this time, he worked on several notable films, includingShane,Academy Award for Best Picture winningThe Greatest Show on Earth, almost every importantAlfred Hitchcock film, andThe Rose Tattoo, for which he won the Academy Award for best art direction for a black and white film. In total, Pereira was nominated for 23 Academy Awards throughout his career and he also served alongsideEarl Hedrick asartistic director of the TV seriesBonanza.[7]
Pereira also worked occasionally as an architect. He began his architecture career in Chicago, where he partnered withhis brother in 1931. Together, they worked on Esquire Theatre[1] and a house for Charles Dewey Jr.,[8] son ofCharles S. Dewey.[9] Pereira left the partnershipc. 1940, at which point he collaborated withRobert Law Weed and Edwin T. Reeder on Beach Theatre inMiami, Florida.[1] He also remodeledParamount Theatre's Metropolitan Annex in Los Angeles in 1941.[10]
He died inLos Angeles,California.
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