Biography
Fred Sersen (February 24, 1890 – December 11, 1962) was an American painter and cinema special effects artist working mainly at 20th Century Fox Studios from the 1930s to the 1950s with credits in over 200 movies. He won two Academy Awards for Best Effects, Special Effects (photographic), in 1940 for The Rains Came, and in 1944 for Crash Dive. An artificial lake created for the former film was named in his honor. Fred Sersen was born Ferdinand Metoděj Sršeň, February 24, 1890, in Veselí nad Moravou, then a part of Austria-Hungary, At the age of 17 he moved to the United States. He studied art at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design, the Portland Art Academy, and the San Francisco Institute of Art. His first credited film was A Connecticut Yankee (1931). In 1937 he recreated the 1871 Great Chicago Fire on the screen for the film In Old Chicago. Other notable effects for which he is credited include the fire in Hangover Square, the flying saucer in The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the sinking of the ship in Titanic.He died December 11, 1962 in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
Anne of the Indies (1951)
Love Nest (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
The 13th Letter (1951)
The Frogmen (1951)
The Jackpot (1950)
Mister 880 (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Stella (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Dancing in the Dark (1949)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Come to the Stable (1949)
The Fan (1949)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Cry of the City (1948)
Deep Waters (1948)
The Street with No Name (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Moss Rose (1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
The Late George Apley (1947)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Margie (1946)
Home Sweet Homicide (1946)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Cluny Brown (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
The Bullfighters (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Hangover Square (1945)
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Laura (1944)
The Big Noise (1944)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Pin Up Girl (1944)
Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Jane Eyre (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Happy Land (1943)
Holy Matrimony (1943)
Jitterbugs (1943)
The Black Swan (1942)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Suez (1938)
The Big Trail (1930)
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Known ForVisual Effects
GenderMale
Birthday1890-02-25
Deathday1962-12-11 (72 years old)
Birth NameFerdinand Sršeň
Birth PlaceVeselí nad Moravou, Czech Republic
CitizenshipsCisleithania, United States of America
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Special Effects
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