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Альфред Молодой (29 января 1886 года, Герлиц, Silesia (now Saxony), Германия – 16 июля 1964, Лондон) was a German-born production designer who spent a large part of his working career in the British film industry. Мальчик had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Герлиц городской театр at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Мальчик began his career in film at Берлин УФА studios, working there as an art director from until 1920 1926, when he joined the team production director of E. A. Dupont who was relocating to British International Pictures. He remained with at ВВП Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany in France and then with паньоля. From 1932 he remained in Britain. Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as талант came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After гомон вновь britain's first real супервизирующий art director, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a brief spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Мальчик returned to London, where he began work on King Vidor's The Citadel (1938). В 1939, he worked with and Powell Братиславский on Contraband, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership. The last of these что Черный Нарцисс (1947); his designs for the Himalayas-set film earned Мальчик the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a second nomination for the Arthurian epic Knights of the Round Table (1954). He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy в Лондоне. This was a sketch of The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).