{{short description|German art director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = Carl Jules Weyl (1938).jpg | name = Carl Jules Weyl | other_names = Karl Felix Julius Weyl <ref>Germany, select births and baptisms, 1558–1898 on ancestry.com</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|1890|12|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Stuttgart]], Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|7|12|1890|12|6|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], US | occupation = Architect<br/>Art director | years_active = 1926–1929 (architect)<br/>1930–1947 (art director) | spouse = Irma Lois Chase (divorced)<ref>1930 US Census, 1940 US Census</ref> }}

'''Carl Jules Weyl''' (6 December 1890 &ndash; 12 July 1948) was a German [[architect]] and [[Art director#In film|art director]]. He designed or co-designed six [[contributing properties]] in the [[Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District]],<ref name=NRHS1>{{Cite web |title=Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/236d3254-47ee-4b31-9045-c2999cc465f2/ |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior]] - [[National Park Service]] |date=April 4, 1985 |language=en-US}}</ref> won a [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]] [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'',<ref name="Oscars 1939">{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1939 |title=The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners |access-date=22 July 2011|work=Oscars.org}}</ref> and was nominated in the same category for ''[[Mission to Moscow]]''.<ref name="Oscars 1944">{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners |access-date=22 July 2011|work=Oscars.org}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Weyl was born in [[Stuttgart]], [[Germany]]. His father, Karl Friedrich Weyl, was an architect and field engineer of the [[Gotthard Rail Tunnel]] through the Alps. Carl Jules Weyl studied at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris after architectural training in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Munich.<ref>Out of the Fountain. New York Times. 3 October 1943</ref> He served as a first lieutenant of infantry in the German [[Reichswehr]], according to his World War I draft registration card.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

Weyl immigrated to the US on 31 March 1912, according to his 1933 petition for citizenship, on the [[SS Königin Luise (1896)]].

==Architect and art director== Weyl worked as an architect in [[California]], first for [[John W. Reid Jr.]] in [[San Francisco]], then in [[Los Angeles]] after he moved there in 1923.

When the [[Great Depression]] hit and building commissions dried up, Weyl joined [[Cecil B. DeMille]] Productions as an art director,<ref>French Normandy Design Employed. Los Angeles Times – 23 November 1930</ref> then he joined [[Warner Brothers]] in the same position. Weyl initially worked as an assistant to [[Anton Grot]] and [[Robert M. Haas]]. His first set for Warner Bros was the fountain in [[Footlight Parade]].

===Buildings=== [[File:Baine bldg 2.jpg|thumb|[[Baine Building]]]]

Together with [[Henry L. Gogerty]] (1894-1990), he designed numerous buildings in [[Hollywood, California]], including:

* [[Avalon Hollywood|Palace Theater]] (1926), NRHP-listed<ref name=NRHS1/><ref name=winter>{{Cite book |last=Winter |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC |title=An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles |date=2009 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-4236-0893-6 |language=en}}</ref> * [[Baine Building]] (1926), NRHP-listed<ref name=NRHS1/><ref name=winter/> * [[Hollywood Studio Building]] (1927), NRHP-listed<ref name=NRHS1/>

[[File:Hollywood toys bldg.jpg|thumb|[[Hollywood Studio Building]]]]

* [[Fred C. Thomson Building]] (1928),<ref name=pcad>[https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/637/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Carl Jules Weyl Sr. (Architect)]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fred C. Thomson Building |url=https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2019/19-1067_misc_09-13-2019.pdf |publisher=Los Angeles City Planning Department |date=August 15, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument|LAHCM]] #1196<ref name=LAHCML>{{Cite web |title=Historical Cultural Monuments List |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/24f6fce7-f73d-4bca-87bc-c77ed3fc5d4f/Historical_Cultural_Monuments_List.pdf |publisher=[[City of Los Angeles]] |access-date=August 31, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Other buildings in Los Angeles designed by Weyl include:

* [[Hollywood Brown Derby]] (1928), NRHP-listed<ref name=NRHS1/><ref name=pcad/> * [[Herman Building]] (1928), NRHP-listed<ref name=NRHS1/> * [[Christie Realty Building]] (1928), NRHP-listed<ref name=NRHS1/> * [[York Boulevard State Bank]]<ref name=pcad/>

===Selected filmography=== * ''[[The Florentine Dagger]]'' (1935) * ''[[Bullets or Ballots]]'' (1936) * ''[[Kid Galahad (1937 film)|Kid Galahad]]'' (1937) * ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1938) * ''[[Confessions of a Nazi Spy]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Letter (1940 film)|The Letter]]'' (1940) * ''[[The Great Lie]]'' (1941) * ''[[Kings Row]]'' (1942) * ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]'' (1942) * ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1942) * ''[[Mission to Moscow]]'' (1943) * ''[[Passage to Marseille]]'' (1944) * ''[[The Corn Is Green (1945 film)|The Corn Is Green]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (1946) * ''[[Escape Me Never (1947 film)|Escape Me Never]]'' (1947)

==Personal life== Weyl was best man at the Beverly Hills wedding of film comedian [[Harry Langdon]] in 1929.<ref>Harry Langdon, film star, to wed, 27 July. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) Tuesday, 16 July 1929 Page 8</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0923380}}

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