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Starting out as a child actor, Gordon Douglas was eventually hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer. His first directorial assignments were for Roach's "Our Gang" series. Graduating to features, Douglas stayed with comedies, directing Oliver Hardy in Zenobia (1939) and both Hardy and Stan Laurel in Saps at Sea (1940). Douglas left Roach for RKO, for which he directed about a dozen films from 1942-47, mostly routine programmers. He then went to Columbia for several years, but in 1950 he headed over to Warner Brothers, where he would stay for the next 15 years and where he would find his greatest successes. His westerns and crime dramas for Warners met with critical and financial success, and it was during this period that he made what is considered one of the classic sci-fi films of the era: Them! (1954). Although he had his share of clunkers, and has at times expressed dissatisfaction with his career (he once said, "Don't try to watch all the films I've directed; it would turn you off movies forever"), he was responsible for some of the more enjoyable films of the 1950s and 1960s. One of his most successful films was also one of Frank Sinatra's best--The Detective (1968), a tough, gritty and controversial (for the time) crime drama about a homicide cop who gets involved in a murder case involving wealthy and powerful homosexual men.- Director
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There he initially studied at the School of Art from 1984 to 1988. He was then accepted into a master's program for two years at the Slade School of Art in Glasgow. In his video work "24 Hour Psycho", created in 1993, the artist works with a standard video cassette. He edited Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" using slow motion technology, extending it to a total of 24 hours. Since then, Gordon has devoted himself primarily to the alienation of cinema images and film stars. As part of this work, he made the statement "Cinema is dead", which increased his popularity. His alienation techniques help him to transform well-known cinematic images and myths into works of art and to revive them in new ways.
For the artist, who himself grew up with television, the question behind this is often the question of good and bad values. His video installations also include titles such as "Between Darkness and Light" (1997), Feature Film (1999) or "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait", a collaboration with the French director Philippe Parreno, in which the French football star and national team player Zine Zidane is portrayed. In his star series, Douglas Gordon distorts images of rock and film stars not only by exposing them to fire, but also with additives such as pork knuckles, sugar, eggs, shampoo, sperm or urine. Or he cuts out their eyes and puts the photos on mirrors. For the artist himself, these techniques resemble voodoo magic.
He showed pictures of stars with cut-out eyes for the first time at the "Blind Stars" exhibition. He later exposed the same images to fire in order to further alienate them - with the ambivalent effect of deification and destruction. In his installations, Douglas Gordon almost exclusively uses photos of stars who are no longer alive. His image experiments also aim to uncover the charismatic power of stars - a kind of dissection process. Gordon's conceptual image installations also make it clear that he makes a strict distinction between the status of star and celebrity, with the latter being inferior for him. Douglas Gordon was awarded the Turner Prize (1996), the Central Art Prize (1998) and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize in 2008, among others.
Gordon lives and works not only in Glasgow, but also in Berlin and New York.- Douglas Gordon was born on 11 December 1894 in London, England, UK. He is known for Escape to Glory (1940), Studio One (1948) and The Philco Television Playhouse (1948).
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Gordon Douglas Myren is known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Henchpeople (2012) and Mr. Young (2011).- Animation Department
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Douglas Gordon is known for Through the Mirror (2009), 8 Bit Legacy: The Curious History of Video Games (2017) and Great Big Show (2017).- Douglas Gordon is known for The Adams Chronicles (1976).
- Gordon Douglas is known for Zucchini.
- Douglas Gordon is known for Blood of a King (2010).
- Gordon Douglas is known for You Came (2018).
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Douglas Gordon is known for Darling (2008).- Douglas Gordon is known for Prince (2021).
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Douglas Gordon is known for Oil in the Blood (2019) and Help Me I'm Dying (2019).- Producer
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Douglas Gordon was born on 31 December 1929 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Hazchem (1977), The Shetland Experience (1977) and Islam and the Sciences (1976). He died on 19 August 1998 in London, England, UK.- Cinematographer
Douglas Gordon King is known for My Family by Sam (2005).- Location Management
Gordon Douglas is known for Der Wald (2018).- Make-Up Department
Douglas Gordon is known for Two Moon Junction (1988) and Michael Landon, the Father I Knew (1999).- Douglas Gordon was born on 12 March 1871 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Tally Ho! (1901). He died on 26 October 1935 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK.
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Douglas Gordon is known for Lloyd Cole: Violins (2019), Artworks Scotland (2004) and Chew the Fat (2008).- Gordon Douglas is known for Random Acts (2011).