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name: "Maurice Carter"
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roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "24 April 1913"
died: "1 April 2000"
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average_fi1m_score: 76
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# Maurice Carter

Production designer. Born 24 April 1913 in London, England, UK. Died 1 April 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 24 April 1913, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 1 April 2000
- **Active:** 1938–1969
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 88 (1), 1960s 70 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, History 2, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $9m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1911280, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/95332

## Biography

Maurice Carter (24 April 1913 – April 2000) was a British production designer and art director. Born in London, he worked extensively in British cinema from the 1940s onwards, contributing to films across genres including period dramas, war epics and fantasy adventures.

He served as production designer on *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969) and *The First Great Train Robbery* (1978), and as art director or supervising art director on *Becket* (1964), *Battle of Britain* (1969) and *10 Rillington Place* (1971). Carter was one of the first in England to use back projection and founded the Guild of Film Art Directors (later the British Film Designers Guild). He received two Academy Award nominations and three BAFTA nominations for his work.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969), Fi1m 60, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/anne-of-the-thousand-days.md)
- *Becket* (1964), Fi1m 79, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/becket.md)
- *The Lady Vanishes* (1938), Fi1m 88, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lady-vanishes.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *Bodyguard Seduction* (2022), as Matt
- *North Sea Hijack* (1980), Production Design
- *The First Great Train Robbery* (1978), Production Design
- *The People That Time Forgot* (1977), Production Design
- *At the Earth's Core* (1976), Production Design
- *The Land That Time Forgot* (1974), Production Design
- *From Beyond the Grave* (1974), Production Design
- *The House in Nightmare Park* (1973), as Art Direction
- *Psychomania* (1973), as Art Direction
- *Fear Is the Key* (1972), Production Design
- *Innocent Bystanders* (1972), as Art Direction
- *All Coppers Are...* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Villain* (1971), as Art Direction
- *10 Rillington Place* (1971), as Art Direction
- *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969), Production Design — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/anne-of-the-thousand-days.md)
- *Battle of Britain* (1969), Supervising Art Director
- *Fathom* (1967), as Art Direction
- *A Challenge for Robin Hood* (1967), as Art Direction
- *The Quiller Memorandum* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Kaleidoscope* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Genghis Khan* (1965), Supervising Art Director
- *Guns at Batasi* (1964), as Art Direction
- *The Beauty Jungle* (1964), as Art Direction
- *Becket* (1964), as Art Direction — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/becket.md)
- *Sword of Lancelot* (1963), as Art Direction
- *In the Doghouse* (1962), as Art Direction
- *It's Trad, Dad!* (1962), as Art Direction
- *A Pair of Briefs* (1962), as Art Direction
- *The Frightened City* (1961), as Art Direction
- *No, My Darling Daughter* (1961), as Art Direction
- *The Boy Who Stole a Million* (1960), as Art Direction
- *Upstairs and Downstairs* (1959), as Art Direction
- *Campbell's Kingdom* (1957), as Art Direction
- *The Spanish Gardener* (1956), Production Design
- *A Day to Remember* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Always a Bride* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Desperate Moment* (1953), as Art Direction
- *I Believe in You* (1952), as Art Direction
- *White Corridors* (1951), as Art Direction
- *The Astonished Heart* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Christopher Columbus* (1949), Production Design
- *The Bad Lord Byron* (1949), as Art Direction
- *Snowbound* (1948), as Art Direction
- *The Root of All Evil* (1947), as Art Direction
- *Give Us the Moon* (1944), as Art Direction
- *Bees in Paradise* (1944), as Art Direction
- *The Lady Vanishes* (1938), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lady-vanishes.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1970: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Anne of the Thousand Days*
- 1965: Best Art Direction, Color (nominated), for *Becket*

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

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