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Alfred Junge
Actor, Additional Credits
Born January 29, 1886Died July 16, 1964 (78 years)
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Alfred Junge (29 January 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germany – 16 July 1964, London) was a German-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry.
Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Junge began his career in film at Berlin's UFA studios, working there as an art director from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the production team of director E.A. Dupont who was relocating to British International Pictures. He remained with BIP at Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 he remained in Britain.
Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After beimg Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a brief spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Junge returned to London where he began work on King Vidor's The Citadel (1938). In 1939, he worked with Powell and Pressburger on Contraband, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership.
The last of these was Black Narcissus (1947); his designs for the Himalayas-set film earned Junge the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a second nomination for the Arthurian epic Knights of the Round Table (1954). He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy in London. This was a sketch of The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).
Alfred Junge (29 January 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germany – 16 July 1964, London) was a German-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry.
Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Junge began his career in film at Berlin's UFA studios, working there as an art director from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the production team of director E.A. Dupont who was relocating to British International Pictures. He remained with BIP at Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 he remained in Britain.
Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After beimg Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a brief spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Junge returned to London where he began work on King Vidor's The Citadel (1938). In 1939, he worked with Powell and Pressburger on Contraband, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership.
The last of these was Black Narcissus (1947); his designs for the Himalayas-set film earned Junge the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a second nomination for the Arthurian epic Knights of the Round Table (1954). He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy in London. This was a sketch of The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).
Alfred Junge Filmography
| 1944 | The Volunteer · as Man In Photograph |
| 1957 | A Farewell to Arms · as Production Design |
| 1957 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street · as Art Director |
| 1956 | Invitation to the Dance · as Art Direction |
| 1955 | Quentin Durward · as Art Director |
| 1955 | Bedevilled · as Art Director |
| 1955 | That Lady · as Production Design |
| 1954 | Crest of the Wave · as Art Director |
| 1954 | Beau Brummell · as Art Direction |
| 1954 | Betrayed · as Art Director |
| 1954 | Flame and the Flesh · as Art Director |
| 1953 | Knights of the Round Table · as Art Direction |
| 1953 | Mogambo · as Art Direction |
| 1953 | Terror on a Train · as Art Direction |
| 1953 | Never Let Me Go · as Art Direction |
| 1952 | The Hour of 13 · as Art Direction |
| 1952 | Ivanhoe · as Art Direction |
| 1951 | Calling Bulldog Drummond · as Art Direction |
| 1950 | The Miniver Story · as Art Direction |
| 1949 | Conspirator · as Art Direction |
| 1949 | Edward, My Son · as Art Direction |
| 1947 | Black Narcissus · as Production Design |
| 1946 | Stairway to Heaven · as Production Design |
| 1945 | I Know Where I'm Going! · as Art Direction |
| 1944 | A Canterbury Tale · as Production Design |
| 1944 | The Volunteer · as Production Design |
| 1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · as Production Design |
| 1943 | The Silver Fleet · as Production Design |
| 1941 | He Found a Star · as Art Director |
| 1940 | Blackout · as Set Decoration |
| 1940 | Haunted Honeymoon · as Art Direction |
| 1939 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips · as Art Direction |
| 1938 | Climbing High · as Art Direction |
| 1938 | The Citadel · as Art Direction |
| 1938 | Sailing Along · as Art Direction |
| 1937 | Gangway · as Art Direction |
| 1937 | King Solomon's Mines · as Art Director |
| 1937 | Young and Innocent · as Art Direction |
| 1937 | Head Over Heels in Love · as Art Director |
| 1936 | Man of Affairs · as Art Director |
| 1936 | Everything Is Thunder · as Art Director |
| 1936 | It's Love Again · as Art Direction |
| 1935 | Car of Dreams · as Production Design |
| 1935 | Mister Hobo · as Art Director |
| 1935 | Alias Bulldog Drummond · as Art Direction |
| 1935 | Me and Marlborough · as Art Direction |
| 1935 | The Clairvoyant · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Wild Boy · as Art Director |
| 1934 | Evensong · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | The Man Who Knew Too Much · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Dirty Work · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | The Iron Duke · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Road House · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Lady in Danger · as Art Director |
| 1934 | Little Friend · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Power · as Art Director |
| 1934 | The Murder Party · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Strike! · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | A Cup of Kindness · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | Evergreen · as Art Direction |
| 1934 | The Fire Raisers · as Art Direction |
| 1933 | I Was a Spy · as Art Director |
| 1933 | The Constant Nymph · as Art Director |
| 1933 | |
| 1933 | A Cuckoo in the Nest · as Art Director |
| 1933 | Friday the Thirteenth · as Art Direction |
| 1933 | Channel Crossing · as Art Direction |
| 1933 | The Good Companions · as Art Direction |
| 1933 | Sleeping Car · as Art Direction |
| 1933 | Britannia of Billingsgate · as Art Direction |
| 1932 | Midshipmaid Gob · as Art Direction |
| 1931 | Marius · as Art Direction |
| 1931 | The Love Storm · as Art Direction |
| 1930 | Two Worlds · as Art Direction |
| 1929 | Piccadilly · as Art Direction |
| 1928 | Moulin Rouge · as Art Direction |
| 1925 | Variety · as Art Direction |
| 1925 | Ein Lebenskünstler · as Art Director |
| 1923 | This Ancient Law · as Production Design |
| 1921 | Hintertreppe · as Art Direction |