Ernst Fegté

Ernst Fegté (28 September 1900 – 15 December 1976) was a German art director. He was active in the American cinema from the 1920s to the 1970s, he was the art director or production designer on more than 75 feature films. He worked at Paramount Studios at the height of his career and won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for ''Frenchman's Creek'' (1944). He was also nominated in the same category for three other films: ''Five Graves to Cairo'' (1943), ''The Princess and the Pirate'' (1944), and ''Destination Moon'' (1950). He also worked in television in the 1950s and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1956 for his work on the series, ''Medic''. Provided by Wikipedia