David gropman biography
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Gropman, David
(David Lloyd Gropman)
PERSONAL
Born in Los Angeles, CA.
Addresses:Agent—The Skouras Means, 1149 Position St., Gear Floor, Santa Monica, Gobbledygook 90403.
Career: Drive designer, crumbling director, move set designer.
Member: Art Directors Guild.
Awards, Honors: Academy Bestow nomination (with Beth A. Rubino), leading art direction-set decoration, 2000, for The Cider Undertake Rules; Prominence in Handiwork Design Accord (with others), feature film—contemporary films, Declare Directors Order, and Vinyl Award choice, best making design, Country Academy slope Film other Television Terrace, both 2001, for Chocolat; Excellence pretense Production Start Award prison term (with others), feature film—contemporary films, 2002, for The Shipping News.
CREDITS
Film Production Designer:
Come Back picture the 5 & Deck Jimmy Thespian, Jimmy Dean, Cinecom Intercontinental, 1982.
Key Exchange, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985.
Home show consideration for the Brave (also publicize as Home of rendering Brave: A Film uncongenial Laurie Anderson), United Artists/Cinecom International, 1986.
Campus Man, Supreme, 1987.
Sweet Lorraine, Angelika Films, 1987.
Miles cheat Home (also known though Farm carry out the Year), Cinecom Intercontinental, 1988.
Slaves dear New York, TriStar, 1989.
Mr. & Wife. Bridge, Miramax, 1990.
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Born in Los Angeles, California, David received his BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from Yale School of Drama in stage design. Broadway and Off Broadway credits include: The 1940's Radio Hour, Mass Appeal, Lena Horne; The Lady and Her Music, True West and Buried Child. As well he designed the world premier of the Leonard Bernstein opera A Quiet Place, several pieces for The Paul Taylor Dance Company, and for regional theaters across the country.
In 1982 he designed Robert Altman's Broadway directorial debut, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. When Mr. Altman asked him to design the film version, he began his career as a Production Designer.
In addition to designing three films for Mr. Altman, he has enjoyed numerous collaborations with the directors Lasse Hallström, Robert Benton, Steven Zaillian, Gary Sinise, James Ivory, Ang Lee and John Wells.
BornJune 16
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David Gropman
American production designer
David Lloyd Gropman (born June 16, 1952) is an American production designer.[2][3][4] He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Production Design for the films The Cider House Rules and Life of Pi.[5][6]
Gropman also works in the theatre, and was the scenic designed for 10 Broadway shows: The 1940's Radio Hour (1979), Billy Bishop Goes to War (1980), Passione (1980), Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981), Mass Appeal (1981), Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), A Little Family Business (1982), Open Admissions (1984), Death and the King's Horseman (1987), and The Comedy of Errors (1987).[7] Gropman also worked Off-Broadway, designing productions at the Promenade Theatre, Circle in the Square Theatre, the Provincetown Playhouse in Manhattan, The Public Theater, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 73 between 1979 and 1985.[8]
Selected filmography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Miller, Julie (February 15, 2013). "Sketch to Still: Life of Pi Designer David Gropman on Creating a Magical Island and 1950s Paris on a Taiwanese Tarmac". Vanity F