Occupation Art director Name Arthur Lawson Production designed The Leather Boys | Years active 1942-1969 Role Film Art Director | |
Born 1908 Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear Died 1970, London, United Kingdom Awards Academy Award for Best Production Design Nominations BAFTA Award for Best British Art Direction (Black and White) Art directed The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann, Peeping Tom, The Bedford Incident, The Lost Continent Similar People Hein Heckroth, Christopher Challis, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Otto Heller | ||
Arthur Lawson (1908–1970) was a British art director. He had a long association with film directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, beginning in 1943 when he was floor manager on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Three years later, when Powell and Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made A Matter of Life and Death, Lawson had graduated to assistant art director. He worked with Alfred Junge on the sets for Black Narcissus in 1947, and earned an Oscar for the set designs on The Red Shoes in 1948. Lawson’s association with Powell continued right through to Peeping Tom (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for The Bedford Incident in 1965.
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