Wilfred Shingleton

{{Short description|English art director (1914–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person | name =  | image =  | alt =  | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|01|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death year and age|1983|1914}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|[[Art director#In film|Art director]]}} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | awards = [[Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White|Academy Award for Best Art Direction]] (1948) }}

'''Wilfred Shingleton''' (January 24, 1914 – June, 1983) was an English [[Art director#In film|art director]]. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the [[British film industry]] from his debut in 1937. Some of his early assignments were several [[George Formby, Jr.|George Formby]] vehicles – hugely popular with wartime audiences.

His career really kicked off into a higher gear in [[1947 in film|1947]] when he won the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for his [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|atmospheric sets]] for [[David Lean]]'s ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]''.

He won a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] for the wartime flying epic ''[[The Blue Max]]'' in [[1966 in film|1966]], after which he moved seamlessly into the world of TV, working on the stylish hit series ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''.

He received an [[Emmy nomination]] for the [[miniseries]] ''[[Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust]]'' in 1978, winning the award two years later for the [[TV movie]] ''Gauguin the Savage''. His last film – for which he received a BAFTA nomination – was the [[Merchant Ivory]] film ''[[Heat and Dust (film)|Heat and Dust]]'' in [[1983 in film|1983]].

==Selected filmography== * ''[[The Fortunate Fool]]'' (1933) * ''[[It's in the Air (1938 film)|It's in the Air]]'' (1938) * ''[[Trouble Brewing (1939 film)|Trouble Brewing]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Four Just Men (1939 film)|The Four Just Men]]'' (1939) * ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (1946) * ''[[The Cure for Love]]'' (1949) * ''[[Shadow of the Eagle (1950 film)|Shadow of the Eagle]]'' (1950) * ''[[The Rival of the Empress]]'' (1951) * ''[[The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]'' (1951) * ''[[Who Goes There!]]'' (1952) * ''[[Beat the Devil (film)|Beat the Devil]]'' (1953) * ''[[Hobson's Choice (1954 film)|Hobson's Choice]]'' (1954) * ''[[Carrington V.C. (film)|Carrington V.C.]]'' (1955) * ''[[Port Afrique]]'' (1956) * ''[[I was Monty's Double]]'' (1958) * ''[[The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's]]'' (1960) * ''[[The Innocents (1961 film)|The Innocents]]'' (1961) * ''[[The Blue Max]]'' (1966) * ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' (TV series)(six episodes) (1967) * ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers]]'' (1967) * ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1971) * ''[[Endless Night (1972 film)|Endless Night]]'' (1972) * ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1979 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1979) * ''[[Eye of the Needle (film)|Eye of the Needle]]'' (1981) * ''[[Heat and Dust]]'' (1983)

==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0793939}}

{{Navboxes |title = Awards for Wilfred Shingleton |list = {{AcademyAwardBestArtDirection 1941–1960}} {{BAFTA Award for Best Production Design}} }}

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