---
name: "Gordon Wiles"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gordon-wiles"
fi1m_id: "gordon-wiles"
imdb_id: "nm0928781"
tmdb_id: 94166
wikidata_id: "Q1442462"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "10 October 1904"
died: "17 October 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T04:36:22.160763+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."
---

# Gordon Wiles

## Identity

Gordon Wiles

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gordon-wiles
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gordon-wiles
- **IMDb ID:** nm0928781
- **TMDB ID:** 94166
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1442462
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Wiles, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1442462, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928781/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94166

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

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 10 October 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 17 October 1950
- **Active:** 1927–1950
- **Also known as:** Gordon Warren Wiles
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 88 (1), 1930s 61 (1), 1950s 86 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 3, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Wiles, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1442462, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928781/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94166

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Gun Crazy*](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md) (86)

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## 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.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Gun Crazy* (1950), Fi1m 86, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Me and My Gal* (1932), Fi1m 61, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-my-gal.md)
- *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927), Fi1m 88, Art Department Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *The Underworld Story* (1950), as Art Direction
- *It's a Small World* (1950), Production Design
- *Dakota Lil* (1950), Production Design
- *Gun Crazy* (1950), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Bomba on Panther Island* (1949), Production Design
- *The Dude Goes West* (1948), as Art Direction
- *The Gangster* (1947), Director
- *The Private Affairs of Bel Ami* (1947), Production Design
- *A Scandal in Paris* (1946), Production Design
- *The Moon and Sixpence* (1942), Production Design
- *Forced Landing* (1941), Director
- *Back Door to Heaven* (1939), as Set Decoration
- *Prison Train* (1938), Director
- *Mr. Boggs Steps Out* (1938), Director
- *Venus Makes Trouble* (1937), Director
- *Women of Glamour* (1937), Director
- *Lady from Nowhere* (1936), Director
- *Two-Fisted Gentleman* (1936), Director
- *Blackmailer* (1936), Director
- *Charlie Chan's Secret* (1936), Director
- *Stand Up and Cheer!* (1934), as Art Direction
- *Bottoms Up* (1934), as Art Direction
- *My Weakness* (1933), as Art Direction
- *Infernal Machine* (1933), as Art Direction
- *Pleasure Cruise* (1933), as Art Direction
- *Broadway Bad* (1933), as Art Direction
- *Me and My Gal* (1932), as Art Direction — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-my-gal.md)
- *Week Ends Only* (1932), as Art Direction
- *Society Girl* (1932), as Art Direction
- *The Trial of Vivienne Ware* (1932), as Art Direction
- *Transatlantic* (1931), as Art Direction
- *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927), Art Department Manager — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1932: Best Production Design (won), for *Transatlantic*

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

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