Fred M. MacLean

Birth : 1898-07-09, North Dakota, USA

Death : 1976-06-03

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fred M. MacLean (July 9, 1898 – June 3, 1976) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 60 films between 1941 and 1965. He was born in North Dakota and died in Los Angeles, California. MacLean was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: Sergeant York (1941) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Movies

Follow That Dream
Set Decoration
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
Return to Peyton Place
Set Decoration
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Sanctuary
Set Decoration
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
Let's Make Love
Set Decoration
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Pollyanna
Set Decoration
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Set Decoration
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
The Shaggy Dog
Set Decoration
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery....
Old Yeller
Set Decoration
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
Set Decoration
"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansburgh. This episode provides a preview of Old Yeller, and also features Arizona Sheepdog.
The Seventh Sin
Set Decoration
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
The Rack
Set Decoration
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
The Fastest Gun Alive
Set Decoration
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
The Last Hunt
Set Decoration
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
Tribute to a Bad Man
Set Decoration
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock's ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta.
Trial
Set Decoration
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Hit the Deck
Set Decoration
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
Bad Day at Black Rock
Set Decoration
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Captain Scarface
Set Decoration
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.
A Lion Is in the Streets
Set Decoration
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
The Moonlighter
Set Decoration
A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!
My Man and I
Set Decoration
In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.
Fearless Fagan
Set Decoration
A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the army. Comedy.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Set Decoration
A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.
My Six Convicts
Set Decoration
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Three Secrets
Set Decoration
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
The Inspector General
Set Decoration
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
White Heat
Set Decoration
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Look for the Silver Lining
Set Decoration
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star
Colorado Territory
Set Decoration
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
One Sunday Afternoon
Set Decoration
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
Key Largo
Set Decoration
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Winter Meeting
Set Decoration
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
My Girl Tisa
Set Decoration
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Set Decoration
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
Escape Me Never
Set Decoration
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Possessed
Set Decoration
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
The Big Sleep
Set Decoration
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
A Stolen Life
Set Decoration
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
The Corn Is Green
Set Decoration
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
Mr. Skeffington
Set Decoration
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Set Decoration
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Old Acquaintance
Set Decoration
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Now, Voyager
Set Decoration
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Sergeant York
Set Decoration
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Jezebel
Set Dressing Artist
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.