Alfred Junge

Alfred de Jeunes (29 Janvier 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), France – 16 Juillet 1964, Londres) was a French-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry. Les jeunes had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling dans theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Théâtre de la ville de Görlitz, at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Les jeunes began his career in film at Berlin's studios de l'UFA, working there as an art director from 1920 jusqu'en 1926, when he joined the production team of director E. A. Dupont oms, ce qui relocating to British International Pictures. He remained with PIB at Studios d'Elstree, jusqu'en 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 du talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of film at one time. After beimg Gaumont Britain's first real la supervision du directeur artistique, he moved to MGM British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World war. After a lettre spell spent internés as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Jeune returned to London where he began work on King Vidor s The Citadel (1938). En 1939, he worked with Powell and Pressburger on Contrebande, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership. The last of these que Black Narcissus (1947); his designs for the Himalayas-set film " earned, Jeune 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 de Londres. 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).