Bernard Robinson

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-07-28 (58 years old)

Deathday

1970-03-02

Place of Birth

Liverpool, UK

Bernard Robinson

Biography

Liverpool-born artist, who spent the 1930's working for Warner Brothers at Teddington Studio as a draughtsman. After gaining promotion to art director, he joined Alexander Korda at London Films, working out of Denham Studios. His career was interrupted by wartime service and did not resume fully until 1956, when he joined Hammer Films as a production designer. Robinson soon acquired a reputation for creating a lavish look, given the limited budgets and cramped facilities at Hammer's Bray studio. He built sets which could be rapidly re-built to suit different requirements. In this manner, the crypt from Dracula (1958) became the laboratory for...

Production

1960

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

as Production Design

1957

1967

Frankenstein Created Woman

as Production Design

1958

The Revenge of Frankenstein

as Production Design

1960

The Brides of Dracula

as Production Design

1959

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Production Design

1966

The Witches

as Production Design

1964

The Gorgon

as Production Design

1966

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

as Production Design

1961

The Shadow of the Cat

as Production Design

1961

The Terror of the Tongs

as Production Design

1961

The Curse of the Werewolf

as Production Design

1959

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

as Production Design

1964

The Devil-Ship Pirates

as Production Design

1963

The Old Dark House

as Production Design

1966

The Reptile

as Production Design

1966

The Plague of the Zombies

as Production Design

1963

Paranoiac

as Production Design

1963

Maniac

as Production Design

1961

Cash on Demand

as Production Design

1962

The Phantom of the Opera

as Production Design

1964

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

as Production Design

1963

The Kiss of the Vampire

as Production Design

1966

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

as Production Design

1964

Nightmare

as Production Design

1961

Taste of Fear

as Production Design

1959

The Mummy

as Production Design

1962

Captain Clegg

as Production Design

1962

The Damned

as Production Design

1961

Watch It, Sailor!

as Production Design

1958

1958

1952

1959

Yesterday's Enemy

as Production Design

1957

Quatermass 2

as Art Direction

1959

The Stranglers of Bombay

as Production Design

1950

Double Confession

as Art Direction

1949

Murder at the Windmill

as Art Direction

1957

The Abominable Snowman

as Production Design

1959

The Ugly Duckling

as Production Design

1967

The Mummy's Shroud

as Production Manager

1957

The Curse of Frankenstein

as Production Design

1965

The Brigand of Kandahar

as Production Design

1964

The Secret of Blood Island

as Production Design

1953

Johnny on the Run

as Production Design

1960

1940

Crimes at the Dark House

as Art Direction

1952

Emergency Call

as Art Direction

1969

Destiny of a Spy

as Art Direction

1969

Run a Crooked Mile

as Art Direction

1968

The Devil Rides Out

as Production Design

1968

The Devil Rides Out

as Supervising Art Director

1969

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

as Supervising Art Director

1967

Quatermass and the Pit

as Supervising Art Director

1954

1953

The Broken Horseshoe

as Art Direction

1953

Three Steps In The Dark

as Art Direction

1958

Dracula

as Art Direction

1958

Dracula

as Production Design

1962

The Pirates of Blood River

as Production Design

1956

Reach for the Sky

as Art Direction

1949

Forbidden

as Art Direction

1954

The Good Die Young

as Art Direction

1960

Visa to Canton

as Art Direction

1948

Noose

as Art Direction

1963

The Scarlet Blade

as Production Design

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