Carl Jules Weyl

Carl Jules Weyl
Born	(1890-12-06)6 December 1890 Stuttgart, Germany
Died	12 July 1948(1948-07-12) (aged 57) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Karl Felix Julius Weyl [1]
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1930–1947
Spouse	Irma Lois Chase (divorced)[2]

Carl Jules Weyl (6 December 1890 – 12 July 1948) was a German art director. He won an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Adventures of Robin Hood.^[3] He was also nominated in the same category for the film Mission to Moscow.^[4]

Weyl was born in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Karl Friedrich Weyl, was an architect and field engineer of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel through the Alps. Carl Jules Weyl studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris after architectural training in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Munich.^[5] He served as a first lieutenant of infantry in the German Reichswehr, according to his World War I draft registration card.^{[citation needed]}

Weyl immigrated to the US on 31 March 1912, according to his 1933 petition for citizenship, on the SS Königin Luise (1896).

Weyl worked as an architect in California, first for John W. Reid Jr. in San Francisco, then in Los Angeles after he moved there in 1923.

When the Great Depression hit and building commissions dried up, Weyl joined Cecil B. DeMille Productions as an art director,^[6] then he joined Warner Brothers in the same position. Weyl initially worked as an assistant to Anton Grot and Robert M. Haas. His first set for Warner Bros was the fountain in Footlight Parade.

Baine Building in 2024

Together with Henry L. Gogerty (1894-1990), he designed numerous buildings in Hollywood, California, including:

• Palace Theater (1926) 1735 N. Vine Street, Spanish Colonial^[7][8]
• Baine Building (1926), 6601-09 Hollywood Boulevard, Spanish Colonial^[7][8]

Hollywood Studio Building in 2024

• Hollywood Studio Building (1927), 6554 Hollywood Boulevard, Spanish Colonial^[7]
• Yucca Vine Tower (1929), 6305-09 Yucca Street, Art Deco^[8][9]
• Fred C. Thompson Building, 6528-6540 Sunset Boulevard, Spanish Colonial^[9][10]

Other building's designed by Weyl include:

• Hollywood Brown Derby (1928), 1628 N. Vine Street^[7][9]
• Herman Building (1928) 1632 N. Vine Street^[7]
• Hollywood Wax Museum building (1928) 6765 Hollywood Boulevard^[7]
• York Boulevard State Bank, 5057 York Boulevard, Los Angeles^[9]

• The Florentine Dagger (1935)
• Bullets or Ballots (1936)
• Kid Galahad (1937)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
• The Letter (1940)
• The Great Lie (1941)
• Kings Row (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• Passage to Marseille (1944)
• The Corn Is Green (1945)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Escape Me Never (1947)

Weyl was best man at the Beverly Hills wedding of film comedian Harry Langdon in 1929.^[11]

Weyl died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.^[12]

• Carl Jules Weyl at IMDb
• Carl Jules Weyl at AllMovie