John Box
Production Designer, Award Winner
1920 – 2005
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Who was John Box?
John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won the equivalent BAFTA three times, a record for both awards. Throughout his career he gained a reputation for recreating exotic locations in rather more mundane surroundings, he once created a walled Chinese city in Snowdonia.
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1920
London - Also known as
- John Allan Hyatt Box
- The Magician
- John Allan Hyatt Box OBE
- Spouses
- Doris Lee
(1953 - 1992)
- Doris Lee
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- University of North London
Architecture
- University of North London
- Lived in
- London
- British Ceylon
- Died
- Mar 7, 2005
Leatherhead
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on July 23, 2013
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