title: Jack Maxsted
text: # Jack Maxsted
  
  Albert John Maxsted (30 April 1916 – September 2001) was an English art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Nicholas and Alexandra.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * The Million Pound Note (1954)
  * The Purple Plain (1954)
  * Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
  * Rockets Galore! (1957)
  * Dangerous Exile (1957)
  * Whirlpool (1959)
  * When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
  * Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
  * Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Maxsted married Edna M Barton in 1939.
  
  