Hans Dreier
Known For: Art
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 21, 1885
Day of Death: October 24, 1966 (81 years old)
Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
Hans Dreier was a German motion picture art director. He was Paramount Pictures' supervising art director from 1927 until his retirement in 1950. Hans Dreier was born in Bremen, Germany in 1885. After studying architecture in Munich, Germany, Dreier worked as imperial supervising architect of the German Cameroon. During World War I, he served in the German Lancers. He began his career in German film in 1919 as an assistant designer at UFA Studios. At the urging of German director Ernst Lubitsch, Dreier relocated to Hollywood in 1923 to work at Paramount Pictures. His first Hollywood film was Forbidden Paradise, directed by Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri. Dreier worked as Paramount's supervising art director from 1927 until his retirement in 1950. He made contributions to nearly 500 films during his lengthy career, including many films directed by Joseph Von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch, as well as the film It's a Gift (1934) starring W. C. Fields. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his art direction on 23 occasions. He won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Color) for Frenchman's Creek (1944) and Samson and Delilah (1950). He also won the award for Art Direction (Black and White) for Sunset Boulevard (1950).
1951
1950
Art Direction
Sunset Boulevard
Art Direction
Union Station
Art Direction
Mr. Music
Art Direction
Let's Dance
Art Direction
Riding High
Art Direction
The Furies
Art Direction
Branded
Art Direction
Copper Canyon
Art Direction
September Affair
Art Direction
Fancy Pants
Art Direction
My Friend Irma Goes West
Art Direction
Appointment with Danger
Art Direction
No Man of Her Own
Art Direction
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Art Direction
Dark City
1949
Art Direction
Streets of Laredo
Art Direction
Sorrowful Jones
Art Direction
Chicago Deadline
Art Direction
The Great Gatsby
Art Direction
Samson and Delilah
Art Direction
Red, Hot and Blue
Art Direction
Top o' the Morning
Art Direction
Dear Wife
Art Direction
The Great Lover
Art Direction
My Friend Irma
Art Direction
The Accused
Art Direction
The File on Thelma Jordon
Art Direction
Rope of Sand
Art Direction
Alias Nick Beal
Production Design
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1948
Art Direction
My Own True Love
Art Direction
The Paleface
Art Direction
Whispering Smith
Art Direction
The Sainted Sisters
Art Direction
Isn't It Romantic?
Art Direction
The Emperor Waltz
Art Direction
Sealed Verdict
Art Direction
Sorry, Wrong Number
Art Direction
A Foreign Affair
Art Direction
Miss Tatlock's Millions
Art Direction
Hazard
Art Direction
The Big Clock
Art Direction
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1947
Art Direction
Road to Rio
Art Direction
Ladies' Man
Art Direction
Easy Come, Easy Go
Art Direction
Saigon
Art Direction
Dear Ruth
Art Direction
My Favorite Brunette
Art Direction
Blaze of Noon
Art Direction
Welcome Stranger
Art Direction
The Trouble with Women
Art Direction
The Perils of Pauline
Art Direction
Variety Girl
Art Direction
Wild Harvest
Art Direction
Where There's Life
Art Direction
I Walk Alone
Art Direction
Unconquered
Art Direction
Suddenly It's Spring
Art Direction
California
1946
Art Direction
Road to Utopia
Art Direction
Monsieur Beaucaire
Art Direction
The Virginian
Art Direction
Two Years Before the Mast
Art Direction
To Each His Own
Art Direction
The Blue Dahlia
Art Direction
Blue Skies
Art Direction
Cross My Heart
Art Direction
Calcutta
Art Direction
The Bride Wore Boots
Art Direction
Miss Susie Slagle's
Art Direction
The Searching Wind
Art Direction
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Art Direction
O.S.S.
1945
Art Direction
The Lost Weekend
Art Direction
Love Letters
Art Direction
The Stork Club
Art Direction
Incendiary Blonde
Art Direction
A Medal for Benny
Art Direction
The Affairs of Susan
Art Direction
You Came Along
Art Direction
Hold That Blonde!
Art Direction
Masquerade in Mexico
Art Direction
Out of This World
Art Direction
Duffy's Tavern
Art Direction
Murder, He Says
Art Direction
The Unseen
Supervising Art Director
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Art Direction
Bring on the Girls
Art Direction
The Man in Half Moon Street
Art Direction
Salty O'Rourke
Art Direction
Kitty
1944
Art Direction
Double Indemnity
Art Direction
Ministry of Fear
Art Direction
The Great Moment
Art Direction
Hail the Conquering Hero
Art Direction
Here Come the Waves
Art Direction
The Uninvited
Art Direction
Going My Way
Art Direction
And Now Tomorrow
Art Direction
Standing Room Only
Art Direction
Rainbow Island
Art Direction
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Art Direction
I Love a Soldier
Art Direction
And the Angels Sing
Art Direction
Frenchman's Creek
Art Direction
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Art Direction
The Hour Before the Dawn
1943
Art Direction
No Time for Love
Art Direction
Five Graves to Cairo
Art Direction
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Art Direction
Young and Willing
Art Direction
China
Art Direction
Let's Face It
Art Direction
The Crystal Ball
Art Direction
Riding High
Art Direction
True to Life
Art Direction
Night Plane from Chungking
Art Direction
The Good Fellows
Art Direction
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Art Direction
Hostages
Art Direction
So Proudly We Hail
1942
Art Direction
Wake Island
Art Direction
Road to Morocco
Art Direction
I Married a Witch
Art Direction
Holiday Inn
Art Direction
This Gun for Hire
Art Direction
The Glass Key
Art Direction
The Major and the Minor
Art Direction
The Fleet's In
Art Direction
The Lady Has Plans
Art Direction
The Remarkable Andrew
Art Direction
My Favorite Blonde
Art Direction
The Great Man's Lady
Art Direction
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Art Direction
Star Spangled Rhythm
Art Direction
Lucky Jordan
Art Direction
Street of Chance
Art Direction
The Palm Beach Story
Art Direction
Reap the Wild Wind
Art Direction
Fly-By-Night
Art Direction
Dr. Broadway
Art Direction
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Art Direction
Night in New Orleans
1941
Art Direction
The Lady Eve
Art Direction
Road to Zanzibar
Art Direction
Sullivan's Travels
Art Direction
Hold Back the Dawn
Art Direction
New York Town
Art Direction
Birth of the Blues
Art Direction
Bahama Passage
Art Direction
Skylark
Art Direction
Nothing But the Truth
Art Direction
Caught in the Draft
Art Direction
Aloma of the South Seas
Art Direction
Life with Henry
Art Direction
Among the Living
Art Direction
The Monster and the Girl
Art Direction
Louisiana Purchase
Art Direction
The Shepherd of the Hills
Art Direction
West Point Widow
Art Designer
World Premiere
1940
Art Direction
Golden Gloves
Art Direction
Road to Singapore
Art Direction
The Mad Doctor
Art Direction
The Great McGinty
Art Direction
Remember the Night
Art Direction
The Ghost Breakers
Art Direction
Buck Benny Rides Again
Art Direction
Rhythm on the River
Art Direction
Adventure in Diamonds
Art Direction
Love Thy Neighbor
Art Direction
Those Were the Days!
Art Direction
Typhoon
Art Direction
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Art Direction
Moon Over Burma
Art Direction
Safari
Art Direction
Dancing on a Dime
Art Direction
Arise, My Love
Art Direction
I Want a Divorce
Art Direction
Christmas in July
Art Direction
Dr. Cyclops
Art Direction
North West Mounted Police
Art Direction
Emergency Squad
Art Direction
Parole Fixer
Art Direction
The Farmer's Daughter
Art Direction
Seventeen
Art Direction
The Way of All Flesh
Art Direction
Queen of the Mob
Art Direction
Victory
Art Direction
Untamed
1939
Art Direction
Beau Geste
Art Direction
The Cat and the Canary
Art Direction
Invitation to Happiness
Art Direction
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Art Direction
Honeymoon in Bali
Art Direction
Never Say Die
Art Direction
Disbarred
Art Direction
Man About Town
Art Direction
King of Chinatown
Art Direction
Paris Honeymoon
Art Direction
The Star Maker
Art Direction
The Great Victor Herbert
Art Direction
Hotel Imperial
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Art Direction
Island of Lost Men
Art Direction
Cafe Society
Art Direction
$1,000 a Touchdown
Art Direction
Midnight
Art Direction
Union Pacific
Art Direction
St. Louis Blues
Art Direction
Rulers of the Sea
Art Direction
All Women Have Secrets
Art Direction
The Light That Failed
Art Direction
Million Dollar Legs
Art Direction
Disputed Passage
Art Direction
What a Life
Art Direction
Our Leading Citizen
Art Direction
Night Work
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Art Direction
Unmarried
1938
Art Direction
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Art Direction
Spawn of the North
Art Direction
Ride a Crooked Mile
Art Direction
The Texans
Art Direction
College Swing
Art Direction
If I Were King
Art Direction
Give Me a Sailor
Art Direction
Dangerous to Know
Art Direction
Her Jungle Love
Art Direction
Cocoanut Grove
Art Direction
Artists and Models Abroad
Art Direction
Men with Wings
Art Direction
Zaza
Art Direction
Romance in the Dark
Art Direction
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Art Direction
Hunted Men
Art Direction
Say It in French
Art Direction
The Arkansas Traveler
Art Direction
Illegal Traffic
Art Direction
Tip-Off Girls
Art Direction
Thanks for the Memory
Art Direction
Touchdown, Army
Art Direction
The Buccaneer
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Art Direction
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Art Direction
You and Me
Art Direction
Sing, You Sinners
1937
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Art Direction
Daughter of Shanghai
Art Direction
Ebb Tide
Art Direction
Thrill of a Lifetime
Art Direction
Exclusive
Art Direction
Turn Off the Moon
Art Direction
Partners in Crime
Art Direction
Angel
Art Direction
Maid of Salem
Art Direction
I Met Him in Paris
Art Direction
Hold 'Em Navy
Art Direction
Easy Living
Art Direction
Internes Can't Take Money
Art Direction
Make Way for Tomorrow
Art Direction
Sophie Lang Goes West
Art Direction
Night of Mystery
Art Direction
High, Wide and Handsome
Art Direction
Wells Fargo
Art Direction
Artists & Models
Art Direction
The Last Train from Madrid
Art Direction
True Confession
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Art Direction
Night Club Scandal
Art Direction
Mountain Music
Art Direction
Born to the West
1936
Art Direction
The Jungle Princess
Art Direction
The Texas Rangers
Art Direction
Three Married Men
Art Direction
Desire
Art Direction
Wedding Present
Art Direction
The Plainsman
Art Direction
Klondike Annie
Art Direction
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Art Direction
The General Died at Dawn
Art Direction
Yours for the Asking
Art Direction
Give Us This Night
Art Direction
The Sky Parade
Art Direction
The Arizona Raiders
Art Direction
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Art Direction
Drift Fence
Art Direction
Woman Trap
Art Direction
Desert Gold
Art Direction
Hollywood Boulevard
Art Direction
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Art Direction
Border Flight
Art Direction
The Princess Comes Across
Art Direction
Murder with Pictures
Art Direction
Rose of the Rancho
Art Direction
13 Hours by Air
Art Direction
The Accusing Finger
Art Direction
Easy to Take
Art Direction
The Preview Murder Mystery
Art Direction
Let's Make a Million
Art Direction
The Milky Way
Art Direction
Straight from the Shoulder
1935
Art Direction
Peter Ibbetson
Art Direction
Men Without Names
Art Direction
The Bride Comes Home
Art Direction
The Last Outpost
Art Direction
Mississippi
Art Direction
Accent on Youth
Art Direction
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Art Direction
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Art Direction
Enter Madame
Art Direction
Hands Across the Table
Art Direction
Ruggles of Red Gap
Art Direction
So Red the Rose
Art Direction
The Glass Key
Art Direction
Ship Cafe
Art Direction
Goin' to Town
Art Direction
The Devil Is a Woman
1934
Art Direction
Death Takes a Holiday
Art Direction
Six of a Kind
Art Direction
Search for Beauty
Art Direction
Now and Forever
Art Direction
It's a Gift
Art Direction
The Scarlet Empress
Art Direction
Thirty Day Princess
Art Direction
Kiss and Make-Up
Art Direction
Ladies Should Listen
Art Direction
Murder at the Vanities
Art Direction
Shoot the Works
Art Direction
Ready for Love
Art Direction
Cleopatra
Art Direction
Double Door
1933
1932
1931
1930
1929
1928
1927
1926
1924
1923
1922
1921
1920
Art Direction
Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang
Art Direction
Figures of the Night
Art Direction
Kurfürstendamm
Art Direction
Manolescu's Memoirs
Production Design
Florentinische Nächte
Production Design
Maria Magdalene
Production Design
Die Stimme
Production Design
Maria Tudor
Production Design
Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin
Production Design
The Woman House of Brescia
