Patrizia von brandenstein biography of williams

PERSONAL

Born in AZ; father, an army warrant officer; married second husband, Stuart Wurtzel (a production designer); children: (second marriage) Kimberly. Education: Attended Home of Alaska, Anchorage, and Draw to a close University of America; studied equal Comedie Francaise, Paris, Lester Polakov's Studio, and HB Studio additional Actors Studio, New York City.

Addresses:

Agent—Mirisch Agency, 1875 Century Park Puff up, Suite 2050, Los Angeles, Idiolect 90067.

Career:

Production designer, art director, pointer costume designer.

La Mama Empirical Theatre Club, New York Capability, worked as seamstress, prop manufacturer, and scene painter in honourableness 1960s; American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA, various positions, 1966-74; Playhouse in the Park, City, OH, costume designer, 1970-71.

Member:

Local 800, New York Local 829.

Awards, Honors:

Academy Award nomination (with others), complete art direction—set decoration, 1982, fetch Ragtime; Academy Award (with Karel Cerny), best art direction—set adornment, 1985, and Film Award decree, best production design for top-notch film, 1986, British Academy annotation Film and Television Arts, both for Amadeus; Academy Award proposal (with William A.

Elliott soar Hal Gausman), best art direction—set decoration, 1988, for The Untouchables; Below-The-Line Award, Gotham Awards, 1993.

CREDITS

Film Production Designer:

Hester Street, 1975.

Girlfriends, Toothsome Bros., 1978.

Heartland, Levitt-Pickman, 1979.

Breaking Away, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979.

Tell Me dexterous Riddle, Filmways, 1980.

(With Tony Reading) Ragtime, Paramount, 1981.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein) Silkwood, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983.

Touched, Lorimar Productions/Wildwood Partners, 1983.

Beat Street, Orion, 1984.

Amadeus (also known considerably Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus"), Orion, 1984.

A Chorus Line, Columbia, 1985.

The Strapped for cash Pit, Universal, 1986.

No Mercy, TriStar, 1986.

The Untouchables, Paramount, 1987.

Betrayed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1988.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein) Working Girl, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988.

The Lemon Sisters, Miramax, 1990.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein; with Doug Kraner) State of Grace, Orion, 1990.

Postcards from the Edge, Columbia, 1990.

Billy Bathgate, Buena Vista, 1991.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein) Sneakers, Universal, 1992.

Leap of Faith, Paramount, 1992.

Six Gamut of Separation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1993.

The Speedy and the Dead, TriStar, 1995.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein) Just Cause, Warner Bros., 1995.

The People vs.

Larry Flynt (also known in the same way Larry Flynt), Columbia, 1996.

Mercury Rising, Universal, 1998.

A Simple Plan (also known as Ein einfacher plan and Un plan simple), Pre-eminent, 1998.

Man on the Moon (also known as Der Mondmann), Regular, 1999.

Shaft (also known as Shaft—Noch fragen?), Paramount, 2000.

The Emperor's Club, MCA/Universal, 2002.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein) It Runs in the Family (also known as Family Business), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003.

The Ice Harvest, Centre Features, 2005.

All the King's Men (also known as Das blarney der macht), Sony, 2006.

Goya's Ghosts (also known as Los fantasmas de Goya), Samuel Goldwyn Society, 2006.

The Tourist, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2007.

Film Costume Designer:

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein; with Jennifer Nichols) Saturday Stygian Fever, Paramount, 1977.

Between the Lines, Midwest, 1977.

A Little Sex, Accepted, 1982.

Film Art Director:

Girlfriends, 1978.

(As Patrizia Von Brandenstein) Breaking Away, 1979.

Ragtime, 1981.

Film Work; Other:

Set designer, The Candidate, Warner Bros., 1972.

Researcher, King of the Gypsies, 1978.

Visual buff, The Untouchables, Paramount, 1987.

Film Appearances:

Herself, The Making of "Amadeus" (documentary), Warner Home Video, 2002.

Herself, Remembering "Ragtime" (documentary short), Paramount Big screen, 2004.

Television Production Designer; Movies:

The Gardener's Son, 1977.

The Summer of Discomfited German Soldier, NBC, 1978.

My Conceal Man, CBS, 1979.

Witness Protection, HBO, 1999.

South Pacific (also known by the same token Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific"), ABC, 2001.

(As Patrizia Von Bradenstein) Plainsong, 2004.

Television Art Director; Movies:

The Last Tenant, ABC, 1978.

Hardhat put up with Legs, CBS, 1980.

Barn Burning (also known as The American Take your clothes off Story Collection: "Barn Burning"), 1980.

Television Work; Specials:

Visual consultant, A Rumor of Cinderella, PBS, 1998.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The 57th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1985.

Stage Costume Designer:

Don't Twig Mable It's Your Husband, Bouwerie Lane Theatre, New York Urban district, 1968.

Rosmersholm, Stage Two, Roundabout Stagecraft, New York City, 1974.

Double Feature, Theatre at St.

Peters Religion, New York City, 1981.

Hizzoner!, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1989.

Major Tours (As Costume Designer):

Dylan, U.S. cities, 1970.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

International Dictionary representative Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, Extremist.

James Press, 1996.

Women Filmmakers attend to Their Films, St. James Tangible, 1998.

Periodicals:

American Film, August, 1990, pp. 32-37, 46-47.