John Box

Production Designer

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

January 27, 1920

Died

March 07, 2005

Cause of Death

Natural Causes

Biography

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This multiple Oscar-winning art director began his career as a draftsman for London films before moving up the ranks to assistant art director. He has entered films as an art director with "Zarak" (1956) and also worked on "Fire Down Below" (1957), "The Inn of Sixth Happiness" (1958) and "The World of Suzi Wong" (1959). Box began a multiple picture collaboration with director David Lean ...

Filmography

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Travels with My Aunt (1972)

2nd Unit Director

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

2nd Unit Director

The Looking Glass War (1969)

Travels with My Aunt (1972)

Production Design

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Production Design

Production Design

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Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Aqaba

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is For My Friends

Biography

This multiple Oscar-winning art director began his career as a draftsman for London films before moving up the ranks to assistant art director. He has entered films as an art director with "Zarak" (1956) and also worked on "Fire Down Below" (1957), "The Inn of Sixth Happiness" (1958) and "The World of Suzi Wong" (1959).

Box began a multiple picture collaboration with director David Lean as production designer for "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) and went on to "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) and "A Passage to India" (1984). Noted for their detail and opulence, Box's designs have enhanced such features as "A Man for All Seasons" (1966), "Oliver!" (1968), "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1971), "The Great Gatsby" (1974), "Black Beauty" (1994) and "First Knight" (1995). He has received a four Oscars for his work.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Travels with My Aunt (1972)

2nd Unit Director

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

2nd Unit Director

Producer (Feature Film)

The Looking Glass War (1969)

Art Director (Feature Film)

Travels with My Aunt (1972)

Production Design

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Production Design

Production Design

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Production Design

The Wild Affair (1966)

Production Design

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Production Design

Of Human Bondage (1964)

Production Design

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Production Design

Two-Way Stretch (1961)

The World of Suzie Wong (1961)

Our Man in Havana (1960)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

High Flight (1958)

Tank Force (1958)

The Cockleshell Heroes (1956)

The Gamma People (1956)

A Prize of Gold (1955)

Man with a Million (1954)

Art Department (Feature Film)

How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1958)

Fire Down Below (1957)

Production Designer (Feature Film)

First Knight (1995)

Production Designer

Black Beauty (1994)

Production Designer

Just Like a Woman (1992)

Production Designer

A Passage to India (1984)

Production Designer

The Keep (1983)

Production Designer

Sorcerer (1977)

Production Designer

Rollerball (1975)

Production Designer

The Great Gatsby (1974)

Production Designer

Production Designer (Special)

Murder By the Book (1990)

Production Designer

Life Events

1939

Served in British Army

1946

Began working in film as draftsman, then assistant art director

1956

First film as art director, "Zarak"

Videos

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Aqaba Peter O'Toole (title character) has intimated that he and colleagues (Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn) were less-than sober for the glorious raid on Aqaba, Jordan, actually shot in Spain, in David Lean's Lawrence Of Arabia, 1962.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is For My Friends Remarkable tension and photography by Freddie Young, as Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and Tafas (Zia Mohyeddin) meet Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif) in a famous scene from David Lean's Lawrence Of Arabia, 1962.

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Know Him Well? Joining director David Lean’s opening after credits, Peter O’Toole (title character) meets his end, then shooting a soundstage interior but real exterior of St. Paul’s, London, Anthony Quayle, Jack Hawkins and Arthur Kennedy among the mourners, from Lawrence Of Arabia, 1962.

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Chandrapore 12 A scene not from the E.M. Forster but from director David Lean’s derived screenplay, working on location, Adela (Judy Davis) has just decided against marrying her fiancè, the magistrate she’s come to India to visit, and undertakes a bicycle ride, wild with suggestion, in A Passage To India, 1984.

Man For All Seasons, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Pray By All Means! Summoned to see Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles), Thomas More (Paul Scofield) makes no apology for not helping the king seek another divorce, in Fred Zinnemann's Best Picture Academy Award winner, A Man For All Seasons, 1966.

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) The Viceroy's On Board Director David Lean’s screenplay takes a predictably cinematic grip on the E.M. Forster novel, introducing Judy Davis as Adela Quested in1920’s London, Peter Hughes the P&O man, Peggy Ashcroft, as Mrs. Moore, mother of her betrothed, opening A Passage To India, 1984.

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) I Give Any Englishman Two Years Director David Lean finishes the train journey to fictional interior Chandrapore, introducing Nigel Havers as colonial official Ronny, greeting his mother (Peggy Ashcroft), his betrothed Adela (Judy Davis), his boss (Richard Wilson), then two locals central to the E.M. Forster story, Victor Banerjee and Art Malik, in A Passage To India, 1984.

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Your Gentle Czar Tender early sequence, 1904, as Nicholas Romanov, the last Russian czar (Michael Jayston), learns he has a son, and discusses names with the Czarina (Janet Suzman) in director Franklin J. Schaffner's Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971.

Man For All Seasons, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Lord Chancellor The Chief Justice (Jack Gwillim) administers the most holy oath of office to the new chancellor Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) in an impressive single shot from Fred Zinnemann's A Man For All Seasons, 1966.

Man For All Seasons, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Remember My Office! Newly appointed Chancellor Thomas More (Paul Scofield) suffers impertinence from suitor Roper (Corin Redgrave), daughter Margaret (Susannah York) and knave Rich (John Hurt) in A Man For All Seasons, 1966, from Robert Bolt's play.

Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Some More The big moment, Mark Lester (title character) draws the long straw and asks the impermissible question, Harry Secombe and Peggy Mount as Mr. and Mrs. Bumble leading the Lionel Bart song, in director Carol Reed’s Best Picture-winning adaptation of the West End musical based on the Dickens novel, Oliver!, 1968.

Doctor Zhivago (1965) -- (Movie Clip) When Your Mother Lost You Director David Lean's remarkable transition, from the opening in contemporary Russia, the meeting of Alec Guinness (as General Zhivago) and Rita Tushingham ("The Girl") to the dramatic funeral of her father's mother, in Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Passage to India, A - (Original Trailer) A false rape charge threatens British-Indian relations in director David Lean's last movie, A Passage to India (1984).

Oliver! -- (Re-issue Trailer) Six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, went to Oliver! (1968), the musical version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.

Rollerball - (Original Trailer) The star of a bloodthirsty future sport tries to clean up the game before it kills him in Rollerball (1975) starring James Caan.

Gamma People, The - (Original Trailer) A mad scientist uses gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans at the bidding of an equally mad dictator in The Gamma People (1956).

Of Human Bondage (1964) - (Original Trailer) A medical student (Laurence Harvey) risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress (Kim Novak) in Of Human Bondage (1964), directed by Ken Hughes.

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