Mathias Matthies

{{short description|German art director}} {{use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Mathias Matthies | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1911|8|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Potsdam, Brandenburg, German Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|9|30|1911|8|7|df=y}} | death_place = Greifenberg, Bavaria, Germany | other_names = | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1949–1990 (film & TV) }} '''Mathias Matthies''' (August 7, 1911 – September 30, 2004) was a German art director. He designed the sets for around a hundred films and television programmes. He often collaborated with his wife Ellen Schmidt, including on some Edgar Wallace adaptations made by Rialto Film.<ref>Bergfelder p. 254</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Dangerous Guests'' (1949) * ''Derby'' (1949) * ''My Wife's Friends'' (1949) * ''Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''The Allure of Danger'' (1950) * ''Abundance of Life'' (1950) * ''The Shadow of Herr Monitor'' (1950) * ''Dark Eyes'' (1951) * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * ''My Wife Is Being Stupid'' (1952) * ''Shooting Stars'' (1952) * ''Wedding in Transit'' (1953) * ''The Bogeyman'' (1953) * ''Men at a Dangerous Age'' (1954) * ''Don't Worry About Your Mother-in-Law'' (1954) * ''Doctor Solm'' (1955) * ''I Was an Ugly Girl'' (1955) * ''My Children and I'' (1955) * ''Father's Day'' (1955) * ''The Old Forester House'' (1956) * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * ''The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1958) * ''Crime After School'' (1959) * ''The Merry War of Captain Pedro'' (1959) * ''Yes, Women are Dangerous'' (1960) * ''The Forger of London'' (1961) * ''The Last Chapter'' (1961) * ''The Green Archer'' (1961) * ''The Inn on the River'' (1962) * ''Aurora Marriage Bureau'' (1962) * ''The Happy Years of the Thorwalds'' (1962)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | last = Bergfelder | first = Tim | title = International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2005 | orig-year = 2004 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-539-2 }}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0560238}}

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