Alfred Junge
Production Designer, Film production designer
1886 – 1964
Who was Alfred Junge?
Alfred Junge was a German-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry.
Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Junge began his career in film at Berlin's UFA studios, working there as an art director from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the production team of director E.A. Dupont who was relocating to British International Pictures in London. He remained with BIP at Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 he remained in Britain.
Michael Balcon put him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director moved to MGM's new British operation where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War.
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- Born
- Jan 29, 1886
Görlitz - Also known as
- A. Junge
- Spouses
- Elsbeth Gebhardt
(1918/11/13 - 1964)
- Elsbeth Gebhardt
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 16, 1964
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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