Carl Jules Weyl

Weyl was born in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Karl Friedrich Weyl, was an architect and field engineer of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel through the Alps. Carl Jules Weyl studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris after architectural training in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Munich.Out of the Fountain. New York Times. 3 October 1943 He served as a first lieutenant of infantry in the German Reichswehr, according to his World War I draft registration card.{{fact|date=December 2015}}

Weyl immigrated to the US on 31 March 1912, according to his 1933 petition for citizenship, on the SS Königin Luise (1896).

Weyl worked as an architect in California, first for John W. Reid Jr. in San Francisco, then in Los Angeles after he moved there in 1923.

When the Great Depression hit and building commissions dried up, Weyl joined Cecil B. DeMille Productions as an art director,French Normandy Design Employed. Los Angeles Times – 23 November 1930 then he joined Warner Brothers in the same position. Weyl initially worked as an assistant to Anton Grot and Robert M. Haas. His first set for Warner Bros was the fountain in Footlight Parade.

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Together with Henry L. Gogerty (1894-1990), he designed numerous buildings in Hollywood, California, including:

• Palace Theater (1926) 1735 N. Vine Street{{Cite book |last=Winter |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC |title=An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles |date=2009 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-4236-0893-6 |language=en}}
• Baine Building (1926), 6601-09 Hollywood Boulevard

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• Hollywood Studio Building (1927), 6554 Hollywood Boulevard
• Fred C. Thomson Building, 6528-6540 Sunset Boulevard[https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/637/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Carl Jules Weyl Sr. (Architect)]{{Cite web |title=Fred C. Thomson Building |url=https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2019/19-1067_misc_09-13-2019.pdf |publisher=Los Angeles City Planning Department |date=August 15, 2019 |language=en-US}}

Other building's designed by Weyl include:

• Hollywood Brown Derby (1928), 1628 N. Vine Street
• Herman Building (1928) 1632 N. Vine Street
• Christie Realty Building (1928) 6765 Hollywood Boulevard
• York Boulevard State Bank, 5057 York Boulevard, Los Angeles

• The Florentine Dagger (1935)
• Bullets or Ballots (1936)
• Kid Galahad (1937)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
• The Letter (1940)
• The Great Lie (1941)
• Kings Row (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• Passage to Marseille (1944)
• The Corn Is Green (1945)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Escape Me Never (1947)

Weyl was best man at the Beverly Hills wedding of film comedian Harry Langdon in 1929.Harry Langdon, film star, to wed, 27 July. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) Tuesday, 16 July 1929 Page 8

Weyl died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=weyl&GSfn=carl&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=18101410&df=all& Carl Jules Weyl on findagrave.com]

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