Gordon Wiles

Gordon Wiles

Production designer. Born 10 October 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 17 October 1950.

Production designerAmerican
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Oscar1 won
Born
10 October 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Died
17 October 1950
Active
1927–1950

Biography

Gordon Wiles was an American art director, production designer and film director. He began working in Hollywood in the early 1930s and received an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Transatlantic (1931).

Wiles continued in art direction and production design on numerous films through the 1940s, including Me and My Gal (1932) and Gun Crazy (1950). He also directed eleven features, among them Charlie Chan's Secret (1935) and The Gangster (1947). He died in 1950, aged 46.

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