Hans Dreier
Known for: Art
Born: August 21, 1885
Died: October 24, 1966
Place of birth: Bremen, 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).
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Filmography
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7.3
A Place in the Sun
1951
6.5
Mr. Music
1950
6.1
Let's Dance
1950
5.7
Copper Canyon
1950
6.2
Branded
1950
6.0
September Affair
1950
6.5
Dark City
1950
6.5
Union Station
1950
8.3
Sunset Boulevard
1950
7.1
The Furies
1950
5.8
Fancy Pants
1950
6.2
My Friend Irma Goes West
1950
6.1
Riding High
1950
5.7
Appointment with Danger
1950
6.9
No Man of Her Own
1950
5.8
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950
6.6
Samson and Delilah
1949
7.1
The Great Lover
1949
6.3
Dear Wife
1949
6.6
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
6.7
Chicago Deadline
1949
6.8
My Friend Irma
1949
6.2
Red, Hot and Blue
1949
5.6
Top o' the Morning
1949
5.8
Rope of Sand
1949
6.6
Sorrowful Jones
1949
5.4
The Great Gatsby
1949
6.0
Streets of Laredo
1949
6.2
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
6.8
Alias Nick Beal
1949
6.1
The Accused
1949
6.1
The Paleface
1948
6.7
Whispering Smith
1948
6.3
Miss Tatlock's Millions
1948
7.0
Sealed Verdict
1948
7.7
Isn't It Romantic?
1948
6.8
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
7.1
A Foreign Affair
1948
6.8
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948
6.2
The Emperor Waltz
1948
6.3
My Own True Love
1948
8.0
Hazard
1948
7.3
The Sainted Sisters
1948
7.3
The Big Clock
1948
6.6
I Walk Alone
1947
6.8
Road to Rio
1947
6.0
Saigon
1947
6.4
Where There's Life
1947
6.5
Unconquered
1947
7.0
Wild Harvest
1947
6.5
Variety Girl
1947
6.7
The Perils of Pauline
1947
9.5
The Trouble with Women
1947
6.9
Welcome Stranger
1947
6.1
Champagne for Two
1947
6.7
Dear Ruth
1947
5.7
Blaze of Noon
1947
6.7
My Favorite Brunette
1947
7.0
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
6.8
California
1947
4.3
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
10.0
Ladies' Man
1947
6.4
Calcutta
1946
9.0
Cross My Heart
1946
6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
6.2
Blue Skies
1946
5.7
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
7.1
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
8.0
The Searching Wind
1946
6.1
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
6.9
O.S.S.
1946
6.2
The Virginian
1946
6.7
The Blue Dahlia
1946
7.0
To Each His Own
1946
8.5
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946
6.7
Road to Utopia
1946
5.2
The Stork Club
1945
6.0
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
7.6
The Lost Weekend
1945
6.3
Hold That Blonde!
1945
6.6
Love Letters
1945
5.7
Kitty
1945
5.8
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
6.4
Duffy's Tavern
1945
5.1
Incendiary Blonde
1945
8.0
Out of This World
1945
6.5
The Affairs of Susan
1945
7.3
You Came Along
1945
6.8
Murder, He Says
1945
4.7
The Unseen
1945
5.6
A Medal for Benny
1945
6.3
Bring on the Girls
1945
6.0
Salty O'Rourke
1945
5.9
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
5.3
Here Come the Waves
1944
6.0
And Now Tomorrow
1944
7.5
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944
7.5
Rainbow Island
1944
5.8
Frenchman's Creek
1944
6.8
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
7.1
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
5.9
The Great Moment
1944
6.0
I Love a Soldier
1944
8.1
Double Indemnity
1944
6.4
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
6.9
Ministry of Fear
1944
6.4
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944
7.3
And the Angels Sing
1944
6.9
The Uninvited
1944
5.7
Standing Room Only
1944
6.7
Going My Way
1944
8.0
True to Life
1943
5.6
Riding High
1943
5.9
So Proudly We Hail
1943
8.0
The Good Fellows
1943
7.0
Hostages
1943
5.4
Let's Face It
1943
6.5
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
6.5
Night Plane from Chungking
1943
7.0
Five Graves to Cairo
1943
6.9
China
1943
7.0
No Time for Love
1943
5.8
Young and Willing
1943
6.1
The Crystal Ball
1943
7.4
Lucky Jordan
1942
6.9
Road to Morocco
1942
5.0
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942
6.9
I Married a Witch
1942
5.4
Street of Chance
1942
7.1
The Major and the Minor
1942
6.7
The Glass Key
1942
7.0
The Palm Beach Story
1942
5.9
Wake Island
1942
7.1
Holiday Inn
1942
4.2
Night in New Orleans
1942
6.0
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942
6.0
Dr. Broadway
1942
7.0
This Gun for Hire
1942
6.4
My Favorite Blonde
1942
6.4
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
7.4
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
6.2
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
7.3
The Fleet's In
1942
6.0
The Lady Has Plans
1942
6.7
Fly By Night
1942
6.7
Louisiana Purchase
1941
6.1
Among the Living
1941
7.5
Bahama Passage
1941
7.4
Sullivan's Travels
1941
6.8
Skylark
1941
6.2
Birth of the Blues
1941
8.5
New York Town
1941
6.3
The Great Man's Lady
1941
7.3
Nothing but the Truth
1941
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
7.0
Aloma of the South Seas
1941
6.0
World Premiere
1941
6.6
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
5.9
Caught in the Draft
1941
7.0
West Point Widow
1941
6.4
Road to Zanzibar
1941
5.7
The Monster and the Girl
1941
7.3
The Lady Eve
1941
6.5
Life with Henry
1941
7.3
Love Thy Neighbor
1940
9.0
Victory
1940
6.2
The Mad Doctor
1940
5.6
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
6.3
Arise, My Love
1940
5.0
Dancing on a Dime
1940
7.0
Christmas in July
1940
6.4
North West Mounted Police
1940
10.0
I Want a Divorce
1940
6.9
Rhythm on the River
1940
6.0
Golden Gloves
1940
7.0
The Great McGinty
1940
5.8
Moon Over Burma
1940
5.0
Untamed
1940
8.0
Those Were the Days!
1940
4.6
The Way of All Flesh
1940
6.2
Queen of the Mob
1940
6.5
The Ghost Breakers
1940
6.5
Safari
1940
5.0
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
6.7
Typhoon
1940
6.2
Dr. Cyclops
1940
5.3
The Farmer's Daughter
1940
6.4
Road to Singapore
1940
6.0
Adventure in Diamonds
1940
9.0
Seventeen
1940
5.0
Parole Fixer
1940
7.3
Remember the Night
1940
7.0
Emergency Squad
1940
5.4
The Great Victor Herbert
1939
5.8
The Light That Failed
1939
6.0
All Women Have Secrets
1939
6.7
Rulers of the Sea
1939
6.9
The Cat and the Canary
1939
7.0
Disputed Passage
1939
10.0
What a Life
1939
3.7
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
7.5
Honeymoon in Bali
1939
7.0
The Star Maker
1939
8.0
Our Leading Citizen
1939
5.6
Island of Lost Men
1939
8.5
Night Work
1939
7.0
Beau Geste
1939
6.0
Million Dollar Legs
1939
6.3
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1939
4.5
Man About Town
1939
7.0
Invitation to Happiness
1939
6.3
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
4.8
Unmarried
1939
7.0
Hotel Imperial
1939
6.7
Union Pacific
1939
6.2
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
1939
7.4
Midnight
1939
5.6
King of Chinatown
1939
7.3
Never Say Die
1939
7.5
Cafe Society
1939
7.3
St. Louis Blues
1939
5.5
Paris Honeymoon
1939
6.0
Boy Trouble
1939
5.7
Zaza
1939
8.0
Disbarred
1939
4.8
Artists and Models Abroad
1938
7.0
Ride a Crooked Mile
1938
7.5
Say It in French
1938
6.8
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
5.8
Thanks for the Memory
1938
6.6
Illegal Traffic
1938
6.7
The Arkansas Traveler
1938
7.1
If I Were King
1938
7.0
Sing, You Sinners
1938
6.0
Spawn of the North
1938
6.1
Give Me a Sailor
1938
6.6
The Texans
1938
5.8
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
7.5
Touchdown, Army
1938
5.4
Men with Wings
1938
6.6
You and Me
1938
5.7
Hunted Men
1938
9.0
Cocoanut Grove
1938
6.8
College Swing
1938
7.5
Her Jungle Love
1938
7.5
Tip-Off Girls
1938
7.1
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938
5.3
Romance in the Dark
1938
5.9
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938
6.6
Dangerous to Know
1938
6.3
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
6.4
The Buccaneer
1938
5.5
Wells Fargo
1937
6.1
True Confession
1937
5.4
Daughter of Shanghai
1937
6.0
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937
4.9
Born to the West
1937
7.0
Thrill of a Lifetime
1937
4.3
Night Club Scandal
1937
4.7
Hold 'Em Navy
1937
6.7
Angel
1937
7.0
Ebb Tide
1937
8.0
Partners in Crime
1937
6.2
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
8.0
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937
7.0
Exclusive
1937
6.3
Artists & Models
1937
6.2
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
7.2
Easy Living
1937
8.0
Wild Money
1937
4.8
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
6.0
Mountain Music
1937
6.1
I Met Him in Paris
1937
10.0
Night of Mystery
1937
8.0
Turn Off the Moon
1937
7.5
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
6.5
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
6.2
Maid of Salem
1937
6.1
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937
6.2
The Jungle Princess
1936
6.5
The General Died at Dawn
1936
5.8
The Accusing Finger
1936
6.5
The Plainsman
1936
10.0
Easy to Take
1936
6.2
Wedding Present
1936
8.0
The Sky Parade
1936
6.7
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
6.2
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
8.0
Three Married Men
1936
5.4
Murder with Pictures
1936
9.0
Wives Never Know
1936
7.5
Let's Make a Million
1936
6.6
The Texas Rangers
1936
5.8
Straight from the Shoulder
1936
4.5
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
5.3
Yours for the Asking
1936
6.3
The Arizona Raiders
1936
8.0
Early to Bed
1936
6.5
Border Flight
1936
6.2
The Princess Comes Across
1936
7.0
Florida Special
1936
5.2
13 Hours by Air
1936
7.0
Desire
1936
5.7
Desert Gold
1936
6.5
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
7.0
Give Us This Night
1936
8.0
Woman Trap
1936
5.8
The Preview Murder Mystery
1936
6.3
Klondike Annie
1936
6.0
Drift Fence
1936
6.1
The Milky Way
1936
5.8
Anything Goes
1936
7.0
Rose of the Rancho
1936
5.1
The Bride Comes Home
1935
7.7
So Red the Rose
1935
8.0
Ship Cafe
1935
7.0
Peter Ibbetson
1935
7.0
Hands Across the Table
1935
6.2
The Last Outpost
1935
5.8
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935
7.2
Here Comes Cookie
1935
6.7
Accent on Youth
1935
6.3
Men Without Names
1935
6.7
The Glass Key
1935
6.3
The Devil Is a Woman
1935
5.6
Goin' to Town
1935
6.8
Mississippi
1935
7.1
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
6.6
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
5.7
Enter Madame
1935
7.3
Here Is My Heart
1934
6.5
Father Brown, Detective
1934
6.3
It's a Gift
1934
6.2
Ready for Love
1934
6.1
Cleopatra
1934
6.8
Now and Forever
1934
6.0
Ladies Should Listen
1934
6.7
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934
6.7
Shoot the Works
1934
5.3
Kiss and Make-Up
1934
6.5
Little Miss Marker
1934
6.8
Thirty Day Princess
1934
5.6
Murder at the Vanities
1934
6.9
The Scarlet Empress
1934
6.9
Double Door
1934
6.7
We're Not Dressing
1934
6.3
Death Takes a Holiday
1934
5.9
Six of a Kind
1934
5.5
Search for Beauty
1934
7.1
Design for Living
1933
7.3
Duck Soup
1933
6.3
I'm No Angel
1933
7.0
Too Much Harmony
1933
5.0
This Day and Age
1933
6.0
The Song of Songs
1933
6.9
Island of Lost Souls
1932
6.1
A Farewell to Arms
1932
7.4
Trouble in Paradise
1932
6.6
Love Me Tonight
1932
6.4
One Hour with You
1932
7.0
Shanghai Express
1932
7.4
Broken Lullaby
1932
7.2
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
6.3
An American Tragedy
1931
6.8
The Smiling Lieutenant
1931
6.9
Dishonored
1931
6.4
Morocco
1930
5.9
The Vagabond King
1930
6.6
The Love Parade
1929
5.7
Thunderbolt
1929
6.0
The Case of Lena Smith
1929
7.0
The Docks of New York
1928
5.8
The Patriot
1928
10.0
Ladies of the Mob
1928
7.4
The Last Command
1928
6.1
You Never Know Women
1926
5.6
Forbidden Paradise
1924
8.0
The Whirlwind of Passion
1923
6.5
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
7.0
Peter the Great
1922
7.0
Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo
19217.0
The Riddle of the Sphinx
1921NR
Max, der Vielgeprüfte
1921
6.5
Danton
19217.0
Die große und die kleine Welt
1921
NR
Lady Godiva
1921
7.0
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1921
8.0
Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin
19209.0
Manolescu's Memoirs
1920
8.0
The Woman House of Brescia
1920NR
Maria Tudor
192010.0
Kurfürstendamm
19208.0
Die Stimme
1920
7.0
The Merry-Go-Round
1920NR
Maria Magdalene
1920
10.0
Figures of the Night
19208.0
Florentinische Nächte
1920
10.0
Lilli
191910.0
Lillis Ehe
1919
10.0
Seelenverkäufer
1919
10.0
Der letzte Zeuge
1919