The award-winning artistic director Manuel Gil Parrondo died at the age of 95 – Daily One

The award-winning artistic director, spaniard Manuel Gil Parrondo, winner of two Oscar awards of Hollywood for “Patton” (1970) and “Nicholas and Alexandra” (1971), both of Franklin Schaffner, passed away at the age of 95 this Saturday in Madrid, according to the Academy of Cinema of Spain, which was reflected by the agency DPA.

throughout his prolific career, Parrondo -who detested the term “director’s art”, and was defined as “decorator”- worked for films that have become classics of the cinema.

Among the directors with whom he collaborated are the names of the likes of George Cukor, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles or Anthony Mann, and participated in the grand advanced of the producer, Samuel Bronston, which transformed various locations in spain, in exotic settings and mounted huge film sets with the technical advances higher than at the beginning of the 60′s represented the Hollywood.

Gil Parrondo, born in Asturias in 1921, he studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, in Madrid, and fond of the movies and the sets, in 1939 he began working as an assistant decoration in your country.

After more than a decade of career in the cinema, in the 50′s he began to collaborate with co-productions americans shot in Spain, as “Alexander the Great” (Robert Rossen, 1956) and “the Pride and the passion (Stanley Kramer, 1957).

The big break came soon after with titles such as “Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960), “El Cid” (Anthony Mann, 1961), “Lawrence of Arabia” (David Lean, 1962) or “Doctor Zhivago” (David Lean, 1965), and in the 80s the Spanish director José Luis Garia commissioned the artistic direction of almost all his movies and thanks to his work in the films “lullaby” (1994), “You’re the One” (2001), “merry-go-round c. 1950″ (2005) and “Ninette” (2006) won four Goya awards, the most important Spanish cinema.
he Also worked on other major films as “The wind and the lion”, (John Milius, 1975); “Robin and Marian” (Richard Lester, 1976), “The boys from Brazil” (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1976), or “The bicycles are for the summer (Jaime Chávarri, 1984).

Though mainly dedicated to the cinema, also worked in theatre and television.