Art
Hans Dreier
EN, DE, SV, XX cinema · 407 credits
Born
21 August 1885
Died
24 October 1966 (aged 81)
Birthplace
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).
Known for
Filmography

A Place in the Sun
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
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
Art Direction

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Production Design

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
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
Art Direction

Champagne for Two
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.
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
Art Direction

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Supervising Art Director

Bring on the Girls
Art Direction

The Man in Half Moon Street
Art Direction

Salty O'Rourke
Art Direction

Kitty
Art Direction

Double Indemnity
Art Direction

Ministry of Fear
Art Direction

The Great Moment
Art Direction

Hail the Conquering Hero
Art Direction

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
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
Art Direction

No Time for Love
Art Direction

Five Graves to Cairo
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
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

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
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

The Great Man's Lady
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 Direction

World Premiere
Art Designer

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
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

Zaza
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
Art Direction

Boy Trouble
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

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
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
Art Direction

Wild Money
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
Art Direction

Anything Goes
Art Direction

Wives Never Know
Art Direction

Florida Special
Art Direction

Early to Bed
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
Art Direction

Here Comes Cookie
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, Set Designer

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
Art Direction

Here Is My Heart
Art Direction

The Notorious Sophie Lang
Art Direction

Little Miss Marker
Art Direction

Father Brown, Detective
Art Direction

We're Not Dressing
Art Direction

Too Much Harmony
Art Direction

Duck Soup
Art Direction

This Day and Age
Art Direction

Design for Living
Art Direction

The Song of Songs
Art Direction

I'm No Angel
Art Direction

Shanghai Express
Art Direction

Island of Lost Souls
Art Direction

Trouble in Paradise
Art Direction

Broken Lullaby
Art Direction

Love Me Tonight
Art Direction

A Farewell to Arms
Art Direction

One Hour with You
Art Direction

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Art Direction

An American Tragedy
Art Direction, Set Decoration

Dishonored
Art Direction

The Smiling Lieutenant
Art Direction

Morocco
Art Direction

The Vagabond King
Art Direction

Thunderbolt
Art Direction

The Case of Lena Smith
Art Direction

The Love Parade
Art Direction

The Docks of New York
Art Direction

The Last Command
Art Direction

Ladies of the Mob
Art Direction

The Patriot
Art Direction

You Never Know Women
Art Direction

Forbidden Paradise
Art Direction
Die große Unbekannte
1924
Die große Unbekannte
Production Design

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Set Decoration

The Whirlwind of Passion
Production Design

Peter the Great
Production Design

Danton
as Minor Role (rumored), Production Design
Max, der Vielgeprüfte
1921
Max, der Vielgeprüfte
Production Design

Lady Godiva
Production Design

Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
Production Design

The Riddle of the Sphinx
Production Design

Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo
Set Designer
Der weiße Tod
1921
Der weiße Tod
Production Design
Fahrendes Volk
1921
Fahrendes Volk
Production Design
10 Milliarden Volt
1921
10 Milliarden Volt
Production Design

The Merry-Go-Round
Art Direction

Figures of the Night
Art Direction
Kurfürstendamm
1920
Kurfürstendamm
Art Direction
Florentinische Nächte
1920
Florentinische Nächte
Production Design
Maria Magdalene
1920
Maria Magdalene
Production Design
Die Stimme
1920
Die Stimme
Production Design

Maria Tudor
Production Design

Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin
Production Design

The Woman House of Brescia
Production Design

Die Fürstin Woronzoff
Set Designer
Sizilianische Blutrache
1920
Sizilianische Blutrache
Production Design

Der letzte Zeuge
Production Design

Seelenverkäufer
Art Direction

Lilli
Production Design
Lillis Ehe
1919
Lillis Ehe
Production Design

