Gordon Wiles

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Gordon Wiles
Born	1902 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	October 17 1950 (aged 47–48)
Occupation	Art director, film director
Years active	1931-1950

Gordon Wiles (1902 – October 17, 1950) was an American art director and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Transatlantic.^[1]^[2]

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Selected filmography

Transatlantic (art director; 1931)
Charlie Chan's Secret (director; 1936)
Venus Makes Trouble (director; 1937)
Prison Train (director; 1938)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (director; 1938)
Forced Landing (director; 1941)
The Gangster (director; 1947)
Ginger in the Morning (director; 1974)

References

↑ "NY Times: Transatlantic". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
↑ "The 5th Academy Awards (1931/32) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-07-23.

External links

Gordon Wiles at the Internet Movie Database
Gordon Wiles at AllRovi

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 36478522 LCCN: no90026942 BNF: cb14704712t

Persondata
Name	Wiles, Gordon
Alternative names
Short description	Art director, Film director
Date of birth	1902
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri
Date of death	17 October 1950
Place of death

v t e Academy Award for Production Design (1927–1940)

1927–1939 Interior Decoration	1927/1928: William Cameron Menzies 1929/1929: Cedric Gibbons 1929/1930: Herman Rosse 1930/1931: Max Rée 1931/1932: Gordon Wiles 1932/1933: William S. Darling 1934: Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope 1935: Richard Day 1936: Richard Day 1937: Stephen Goosson 1938: Carl Jules Weyl 1939: Lyle R. Wheeler

1940 Black & White / Color separate	1940 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse / (c): Vincent Korda

Complete list (1927–1940) (1941–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

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