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Art Director

posted 18 years ago by sarah-earl
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Hi, My name is Sarah and my father, known as John ST. JOHN EARL was (I was told by our family) the art director for the Dunkirk. He died 11 years ago and I am trying to find out all about him. Halliwells and the who's who of the movie world however, don't contain any information or listings on him, though his name, I believe was on the credits at the end of the motion picture.
Can anyone help me in my quest to find out more ?
I know so far, that he worked for Rank, and also had dealings with some other productions i.e Quatermass, Hammer House of Horror, some of the Norman Wisdom, one of the James Bond as well as The Island of Terror and The Dam Busters.
I am aware he worked for Pinewood, Sheperton, Elstree and Denham studios, as well as MGM at Ealing (Dunkirk).So he may have been freelance.
Any information (which can be verified) greatly recieved.
Many thanks, from a daughter who never really got to know her dad.

[–] Inferius 18 years ago

According to IMDb the only Art Director on this film was:

Art Direction by
Jim Morahan

But if you have the film on VHS or DVD and can see your fathers name, then add it to IMDb and he'll have a page on here!

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[–] jamesmccabe9 11 years ago

He might have been the assistant art director or draughtsman. He got his first full art director credit two years later and had, a year before this, worked on The Smallest Show on Earth as a draughtsman. That film was made by Basil Dearden, Michael Relph, Douglas Slocombe and William Rose, all Ealing Studious people.