James Basevi
Highest Rated: 100% The Westerner (1940)
Lowest Rated: 85% Spellbound (1945)
Birthday: Sep 21, 1890
Birthplace: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
In Hollywood from 1925 as an art director, Basevi spent over a decade (1926-38) as a special effects artist before returning to design. He was head of the art department at 20th Century-Fox from the early 1940s and worked with John Ford, William Wellman and Henry King, among others.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94% | 88% | The Searchers | Art Director | - | 1956 |
| 86% | 90% | East of Eden | Art Director | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Across the Wide Missouri | Art Director | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | To Please a Lady | Art Director | - | 1950 |
| 100% | 82% | Fort Apache | Art Director | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Captain From Castile | Art Director | - | 1947 |
| 100% | 72% | The Dark Corner | Art Director | - | 1946 |
| 85% | 82% | Spellbound | Art Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Home in Indiana | Art Director | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tampico | Art Director | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Keys of the Kingdom | Art Director | - | 1944 |
| 90% | 87% | Lifeboat | Art Director | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bermuda Mystery | Art Director | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Moon Is Down | Art Director | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Holy Matrimony | Art Director | - | 1943 |
| 88% | 80% | The Song of Bernadette | Art Director | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Tobacco Road | Art Director | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | A Yank in the RAF | Art Director | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 76% | The Westerner | Art Director | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 70% | The Long Voyage Home | Art Director | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | The Real Glory | Art Director | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dance Madness | Art Director | - | 1926 |