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name: "Geoffrey Drake"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoffrey-drake"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1911"
died: "1 January 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T04:01:49.659947+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Geoffrey Drake

Production designer. Born 1 January 1911 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Died 1 January 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1911, Stoke-on-Trent, England
- **Died:** 1 January 1995
- **Active:** 1957–1961
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 88 (1), 1960s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Drake, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5534570, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236909/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30926

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Guns of Navarone*](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) (74)

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## Biography

Geoffrey Drake (1911–1995) was an English production designer and art director. He worked in film from the late 1940s to the early 1980s.

His credits include production design or art direction on *Moby Dick* (1956), *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (1957), *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), *Jason and the Argonauts* (1963), *Lord Jim* (1965), *Young Winston* (1972), *Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger* (1977) and *Force 10 from Navarone* (1978). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction for *Young Winston*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tcm.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), Fi1m 74, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md)
- *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (1957), Fi1m 88, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Force 10 from Navarone* (1978), Production Design, Visual Effects Designer
- *Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger* (1977), Production Design
- *The Internecine Project* (1974), Production Design
- *Young Winston* (1972), Production Design
- *Lord Jim* (1965), Production Design
- *The Victors* (1963), Production Design
- *Jason and the Argonauts* (1963), Production Design
- *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), Production Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md)
- *The Mouse That Roared* (1959), as Art Direction
- *The Inn of the Sixth Happiness* (1958), as Art Direction
- *The Key* (1958), as Art Direction
- *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (1957), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai.md)
- *Tarzan and the Lost Safari* (1957), as Art Direction
- *Moby Dick* (1956), Production Design
- *Beautiful Stranger* (1954), as Art Direction
- *Curtain Up* (1952), as Art Direction

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1973: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Young Winston*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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