Wilfred Shingleton Biography

English art director

Wilfred Shingleton (January 24, 1914 – June, 1983) was an English art director. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the British film industry from his debut in 1937. Some of his early *ignments were several George Formby vehicles – hugely popular with wartime audiences.

His career really kicked off into a higher gear in 1947 when he won the Academy Award for his atmospheric sets for David Lean's Great Expectations.

This led to a string of high-profile projects, including Anna Karenina (1948), The African Queen (1951) and Beat the Devil (1953), both for director John Huston, Hobson's Choice (1954) and Tunes of Glory (1960).

He won a BAFTA for the wartime flying epic The Blue Max in 1966, after which he moved seamlessly into the world of TV, working on the stylish hit series The Avengers.

He received an Emmy nomination for the miniseries Holocaust in 1978, winning the award two years later for the TV movie Gauguin the Savage. His last film – for which he received a BAFTA nomination – was the Merchant Ivory film Heat and Dust in 1983.

Selected filmography

  • The Fortunate Fool (1933)
  • It's in the Air (1938)
  • Trouble Brewing (1939)
  • The Four Just Men (1939)
  • Great Expectations (1946)
  • The Cure for Love (1949)
  • Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
  • The Rival of the Empress (1951)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • Who Goes There! (1952)
  • Beat the Devil (1953)
  • Hobson's Choice (1954)
  • Carrington V.C. (1955)
  • Port Afrique (1956)
  • I was Monty's Double (1958)
  • The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)
  • The Innocents (1961)
  • The Blue Max (1966)
  • The Avengers (TV series)(six episodes) (1967)
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
  • Macbeth (1971)
  • Endless Night (1972)
  • The Lady Vanishes (1979)
  • Eye of the Needle (1981)
  • Heat and Dust (1983)

External links

  • Wilfred Shingleton at IMDb
1968–present
  • Ernest Archer, Harry Lange and Anthony Masters (1968)
  • Donald M. Ashton (1969)
  • Mario Garbuglia (1970)
  • Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971)
  • Rolf Zehetbauer (1972)
  • Natasha Kroll (1973)
  • John Box (1974)
  • John Box (1975)
  • Geoffrey Kirkland (1976)
  • Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977)
  • Joe Alves (1978)
  • Michael Seymour (1979)
  • Stuart Craig (1980)
  • Norman Reynolds (1981)
  • Lawrence G. Paull (1982)
  • Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983)
  • Roy Walker (1984)
  • Norman Garwood (1985)
  • Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986)
  • Santo Loquasto (1987)
  • Dean Tavoularis (1988)
  • Dante Ferretti (1989)
  • Richard Sylbert (1990)
  • Bo Welch (1991)
  • Catherine Martin (1992)
  • Andrew McAlpine (1993)
  • Dante Ferretti (1994)
  • Michael Corenblith (1995)
  • Tony Burrough (1996)
  • Catherine Martin (1997)
  • Dennis G*ner (1998)
  • Rick Heinrichs (1999)
  • Arthur Max (2000)
  • Aline Bonetto (2001)
  • Dennis G*ner (2002)
  • William Sandell (2003)
  • Dante Ferretti (2004)
  • Stuart Craig (2005)
  • Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland and Jennifer Williams (2006)
  • Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007)
  • Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008)
  • Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair (2009)
  • Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (2010)
  • Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011)
  • Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012)
  • Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013)
  • Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014)
  • Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015)
  • Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016)
  • Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau (2017)
  • Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018)
  • Dennis G*ner and Lee Sandales (2019)
  • Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020)
  • Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021)
  • Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (2022)
  • Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek (2023)