John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's The African Queen, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), [1] Anthony Asquith's Orders to Kill (1958) with Alan Withy, [2] and Jeannot Szwarc's Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) with Don Dossett. [3] It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in The African Queen at Butiaba on Lake Albert. [4]
Hoesli was also an assistant art director for many films which often went uncredited including Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939), [5] Gerald Thomas's Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), and Lifeforce (1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's Deliverance (1972). [6] He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire.
John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's The African Queen, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), [1] Anthony Asquith's Orders to Kill (1958) with Alan Withy, [2] and Jeannot Szwarc's Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) with Don Dossett. [3] It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in The African Queen at Butiaba on Lake Albert. [4]
Hoesli was also an assistant art director for many films which often went uncredited including Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939), [5] Gerald Thomas's Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), and Lifeforce (1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's Deliverance (1972). [6] He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire.