Carl Jules Weyl(1890-1948)
- Art Director
German-born art director, a U.S. citizen from 1920, who enjoyed a
successful career as an architect in the 1920's. He designed a number
of significant buildings in and around Los Angeles, including the Brown
Derby Restaurant, the Hollywood Boulevard Building and the Hollywood
Palace Theatre. Weyl joined Warner Brothers, under contract from 1934
to 1947, where he worked on two of the most famous films directed by
Michael Curtiz:
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
and Casablanca (1942). He won his only
Academy Award for
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938),
his overall design inspired by the romanticised illustrations of Howard
Pyle's 1883 novel "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown,
in Nottinghamshire".