Léon Barsacq
{{short description|Production designer}}
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{{Infobox person
| image =Léon Barsacq.jpg
| name = Léon Barsacq
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|10|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Feodosiya, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|12|23|1906|10|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| occupation = Production designer
Art director
Set decorator
| yearsactive = 1934-1968
}}
Léon Barsacq (18 October 1906 – 23 December 1969) was a Russian-born and naturalized French production designer, art director and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Longest Day.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1963 |title=The 35th Academy Awards (1963) Nominees and Winners |access-date=23 August 2011|work=oscars.org}} He was the brother of French theatre director André Barsacq and the father of film actor Yves Barsacq.
Selected filmography
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- Southern Mail (1937)
- I Was an Adventuress (1938)
- The World Will Tremble (1939)
- Beating Heart (1940)
- The Mysteries of Paris (1943)
- Children of Paradise (1945)
- The Last Vacation (1948)
- Eternal Conflict (1948)
- White Paws (1949)
- Maya (1949)
- The Glass Castle (1950)
- Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
- Imperial Violets (1952)
- The Beauty of Cadiz (1953)
- Their Last Night (1953)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1953)
- The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
- All the Gold in the World (1961)
- The Longest Day (1962)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0058245}}
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Category:People from Taurida Governorate
Category:French production designers
Category:French set decorators
Category:Soviet emigrants to France
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