Lindsey Hermer-Bell

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Lindsey Hermer-Bell is a Canadian production designer based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Designer career

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Lindsey Hermer-Bell moved to Canada in 1977. She received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Toronto.

She began her career as designer on the 1983 HBO drama Between Friends . [1] Her production design credits include the feature film Shake Hands with the Devil (2007), for which she received nominations for both a Genie Award and a Directors Guild of Canada award. [2] Her credits for television include the meticulous construction of the brownstone house of Nero Wolfe for the A&E original film The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) and the subsequent series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002). [3] Her production design for the TV series Murdoch Mysteries was nominated for a DGC Craft Award in 2009.

Squash career

Hermer-Bell was a member of Team Canada in squash at the 1993 Maccabiah Games. [4] She won the Canadian Women's Doubles Championships in 2006 and 2007 with Leslie Freeman. [5]

Filmography

YearTitleNotes
1996 Losing Chase (TV)
1996Critical Choices (TV)
1997 When Secrets Kill (TV)
1997When Husbands Cheat (TV)
1998 Down in the Delta
1998The Defenders: Taking the First (TV)
1999 The Passion of Ayn Rand (TV)
1999 The City (TV series)
1999 Rocky Marciano (TV)
1999Ricky Nelson: Original Screen Idol (TV)
1999In the Company of Spies (TV)
2000 The Crossing (TV)
2000 The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV)
2000 Thin Air (TV)
2000Hendrix (TV)
2000The Miracle Worker (TV)
2000Leap Years (TV series)
20012002 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series)
2003 America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (TV)
2003 Soldier's Girl (TV)
2003 Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole (TV)
2003 Word of Honor (TV)
2004 Celeste in the City (TV)
2004 Anonymous Rex (TV)
2005 Confessions of an American Bride (TV)
2005 Our Fathers (TV)
2005 Ambulance Girl (TV)
2007 Shake Hands with the Devil Genie Award nominee
DGC Craft Award nominee
2007 The Dresden Files (TV series)
2007–2009 Da Kink in My Hair (TV series)
2009 Murdoch Mysteries (TV series) DGC Craft Award nominee
2009–2014 The Listener (TV series)
2009 Being Erica (TV series)
2010 When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (TV)
2011 Good Dog (TV series)

Awards

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References

  1. Lindsey Hermer-Bell Biography, The Listener (retrieved July 30, 2011)
  2. Awards for Lindsey Hermer-Bell at IMDb
  3. Hermer-Bell is interviewed on the set in the 2001 featurette, "The Making of Nero Wolfe," included in the DVD set Nero Wolfe: The Complete Classic Whodunit Series ( ISBN   076708893X disc 8). The text of the A&E interview is available at the Internet Archive (retrieved July 30, 2011).
  4. "1993 Team Canada Delegation"
  5. "Canadian Doubles Championships Women," September 2022