title: Arthur Lawson (designer)
text: # Arthur Lawson (designer)
  
  Arthur Lawson (1908–1970) was a British art director. He had a long association with film directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, beginning in 1943 when he was floor manager on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Three years later, when Powell and Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made A Matter of Life and Death, Lawson had graduated to assistant art director. He worked with Alfred Junge on the sets for Black Narcissus in 1947, and earned an Oscar for the set designs on The Red Shoes in 1948. Lawson's association with Powell continued right through to Peeping Tom (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for The Bedford Incident in 1965.
  
  Listing of films:
  
  1942 The Foreman Went to France
  
  1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  
  1944 This Happy Breed
  
  1944 The Way Ahead
  
  1945 They Knew Mr. Knight
  
  1946 A Matter of Life and Death
  
  1947 Black Narcissus
  
  1948 The Red Shoes
  
  1950 Gone to Earth
  
  1950 The Elusive Pimpernel
  
  1951 The Tales of Hoffmann
  
  1952 Folly to Be Wise
  
  1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men
  
  1953 Twice upon a Time
  
  1953 Front Page Story
  
  1954 The Constant Husband
  
  1955 Oh... Rosalinda!!
  
  1955 Richard III
  
  1956 The Battle of the River Plate
  
  1956 Sea Wife
  
  1956 The High Terrace
  
  1957 Hour of Decision
  
  1957 Seven Thunders
  
  1958 Harry Black
  
  1959 The Devils Desciple
  
  1960 Sink the Bismarck
  
  1960 Cleopatra
  
  1960 Peeping Tom
  
  1961 The Valiant
  
  1962 The Very Edge
  
  1962 Vengeance
  
  1962 H.M.S. Defiant
  
  1963 The Leather Boys
  
  1963 Hornblower
  
  1965 The Bedford Incident
  
  1965 Called in to assist in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
  
  1966. The Blue Max....Travelling mat expertise
  
  1966 Binddle (One of Them Days)
  
  1967 The Double Man
  
  1968 The Lost Continent
  
  1968 Midas Run
  
  