John Bryan (art director)

Eric John Bryan Pratt^[1] (12 August 1911 – 10 June 1969), known professionally as John Bryan, was a British art director and film producer.

John Bryan was born in Kensington, London,^[1] England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1948.^[2] He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947^[3] and for Becket in 1965.^[4][5] Bryan also won a BAFTA for Becket.

In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.^[6]

He died from cancer at a hospital in Thames Ditton, Surrey, on 10 June 1969.^[1]

Filmography

Art director

• Colonel Blood (1934)
• Murder by Rope (1936)
• Hearts of Humanity (1936)
• The Captain's Table (1936)
• Men of Yesterday (1936)
• Things to Come (1936, assistant)
• The Song of the Road (1937)
• The Last Curtain (1937)
• Talking Feet (1937)
• Stepping Toes (1938)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
• On the Night of the Fire (1939)
• Stolen Life (1939)
• The Spider (1940)
• Major Barbara (1941)
• Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
• King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
• Dear Octopus (1943)
• Millions Like Us (1943)
• The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
• Time Flies (1944)
• Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
• Love Story (1944)
• Two Thousand Women (1944)
• The Wicked Lady (1945)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
• The Magic Bow (1946)
• Caravan (1946)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• The Root of All Evil (1947)
• Take My Life (1947)
• Blanche Fury (1948)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• The Passionate Friends (1949)
• Madeleine (1950)
• Golden Salamander (1950)
• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
• The Magic Box (1951)
• Becket (1964)
• Great Catherine (1968)

Producer

• The Card (1952)
• The Million Pound Note (1954)
• The Purple Plain (1954)
• The Spanish Gardener (1956)
• The Secret Place (1957)
• Windom's Way (1957)
• The Horse's Mouth (1958)
• There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
• The Girl on the Boat (1962)
• Tamahine (1963)
• After the Fox (1966)
• The Touchables (1968)