Rudi Feld

Rudi Feld (1896–1994) was a German art director and set designer who worked for many years in the United States.

Germany[]

Feld was born Rudi Feilchenfeld in Berlin, the elder brother of the actor Fritz Feld. He served in the German army during World War I^[1] and then began his early career designing posters for revue and cabaret shows, before graduating to creating film sets.^[2] Feld worked in the German film industry during the boom years of the late silent era. He was employed by the German Major studio UFA as head of advertising.^[3] He designed the exterior displays of the flagship UFA cinema Ufa-Palast am Zoo for each new premiere.

Exile[]

Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Jewish Feld went into exile. Feld settled in Mandatory Palestine where he briefly owned a nightclub. In 1937 he emigrated to the United States and from the mid-1940s he found regular work in the American film industry. Feld was frequently employed by smaller Hollywood studios such as Eagle-Lion during the post-World War II years, and worked as a draftsman for MGM.^[1] He continued working until 1969.

Partial filmography[]

• Miss Rockefeller Is Filming (1922)
• William Tell (1923)
• King of Women (1923)
• Leap Into Life (1924)
• The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins (1925)
• Express Train of Love (1925)
• The Wooing of Eve (1926)
• The Armoured Vault (1926)
• Summer Storm (1944)
• Voice in the Wind (1944)
• The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, released in 1945)
• Whistle Stop (1946)
• New Orleans (1947)
• Adventures of Gallant Bess (1948)
• The Argyle Secrets (1948)
• The Vicious Circle (1948)
• My Dear Secretary (1948)
• Parole, Inc. (1948)
• Impact (1949)
• Guilty of Treason (1950)
• Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
• Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
• Escape from Red Rock (1957)
• Operation Eichmann (1961)
• The Gun Hawk (1963)

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
• Ward, Janet. Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. University of California Press, 2001.

External links[]

• Rudi Feld at IMDb

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