Duncan Sutherland

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Duncan Sutherland
Born1 August 1905
Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom
Died1967
London, England
United Kingdom
OccupationArt director
Years active1931 - 1966 (film)

Duncan Sutherland (1 August 1905 – 1967) [1] was a Scottish-born art director, based in England where he designed the sets for over eighty films and television series between the early 1930s and mid-1960s. Sutherland spent much of the 1940s employed by Ealing Studios where he worked on films including It Always Rains on Sunday and The Loves of Joanna Godden . [2]

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In the 1950s he began working on television series such as The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Count of Monte Cristo .

Filmography

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References

  1. Barr p. 198
  2. Barr p. 198

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