Franz Bachelin
German art director
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Franz Bachelin (10 November 1895 – 26 May 1980) was a German art director. In 1946, he and Hans Dreier did the art direction for The Searching Wind.[1] He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Journey to the Center of the Earth.[2][3]
Franz Bachelin | |
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| Born | 10 November 1895 |
| Died | 26 May 1980 (aged 84) |
| Occupation | Art director |
| Years active | 1937–1966 |
| Children | Inez Storer |
Bachelin's last credited work as a cinema art director was for part two of the US television series Star Trek episode "The Menagerie".[4] Bachelin originally assumed responsibility for art direction for the originally-planned Star Trek pilot episode "The Cage" after the first art director for the series pilot, Pato Guzman, left the production company to repatriate to his native Chile.[5] This original series pilot was turned down by the National Broadcasting Company (the first television network to broadcast Star Trek), and was only released in 1988 as a filler episode in Paramount Television's Star Trek: The Next Generation television series during a writers' strike. Bachelin did not receive screen credit for his work on "The Cage".[6]
Selected filmography
- The Hitler Gang, Paramount Pictures (1944)
- The Searching Wind (1946)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- The Naked Jungle (1954)
- War and Peace, Paramount Pictures & Ponti-deLaurentitis (1955)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
- Star Trek, Desilu (1964)
- Batman, Fox (1966)