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James Basevi

Highest Rated: 100% Wagon Master (1950)

Lowest Rated: 80% The Real Glory (1939)

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.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 67% Wagon Master Watchlist 100% 76% The Westerner Watchlist 100% 83% Fort Apache Watchlist 100% 72% The Dark Corner Watchlist 100% 70% The Long Voyage Home Watchlist 100% 85% My Darling Clementine Watchlist 96% 85% Wuthering Heights Watchlist 91% 64% Mighty Joe Young Watchlist 91% 79% She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Watchlist 90% 87% Lifeboat Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Searchers 87% 88% 1956 Art Director East of Eden 86% 90% 1955 Art Director Battle Circus 26% 1953 Art Director Just This Once 71% 1952 Art Director My Man and I 43% 1952 Art Director Across the Wide Missouri 34% 1951 Art Director Night Into Morning 67% 1951 Art Director Wagon Master 100% 67% 1950 Art Director To Please a Lady 29% 1950 Art Director Mighty Joe Young 91% 64% 1949 Art Director She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 91% 79% 1949 Art Director Fort Apache 100% 83% 1948 Art Director Captain From Castile 62% 1947 Art Director Claudia and David 1946 Art Director The Dark Corner 100% 72% 1946 Art Director 13 rue Madeleine 83% 54% 1946 Art Director My Darling Clementine 100% 85% 1946 Art Director Margie 80% 1946 Art Director Spellbound 86% 82% 1945 Art Director Home in Indiana 55% 1944 Art Director Tampico 1944 Art Director Wilson 89% 39% 1944 Art Director The Keys of the Kingdom 83% 1944 Art Director Lifeboat 90% 87% 1944 Art Director Buffalo Bill 45% 1944 Art Director
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