Biography:
Russian born art director, he moved to France where he worked on films like Abel Gance Napoleon (1927).
Britsh matte painter Walter Percy Day painted mattes for some of his films Napoleon(1926) and Miguel Strogoff (1926). When Percy Day returnet to England, Schild started to paint mattes for Frech films.
Pierre Schild moved to Spain running away from the II World War, where he continued his career as art ditector and Special effects artist executing matte paintings and hanging miniatures for his films. He changed his name as Pedro Schild.
Pierre Schild painting an unidentified matte. (photo from the book “Special effects artists” by Rolf Giesen)
Filmography:
- Amore a prima vista (1958)
-Carlota (1958) (as Pedro Schild)
-Conte Max, Il (1957)
-La herida luminosa (1956)
-Cruz de mayo (1955)
-Marcelino pan y vino (1955) (matte shots)
-Cubana en España, Una (1951)
-Balarrasa (1951)
-El ultimo caballo (1950) (Art.D. matte shots)
-La Duquesa de Benamejí (1949) (Art.D.matte painting)
-Noche en blanco, Una (1949)
-Heroes del 95 (1947) (matte shots)
-Leão da Estrela, O (1947)
-Camões (1946)(Art.D. matte shots)
-Maria Fernanda la jerezana (1946) (matte shots)
-Mantilla de Beatriz, La (1946)
-Tierra sedienta (1945)
-Inês de Castro (1944)(Art.D.matte paintings)
-Testamento del virrey, El (1944)
-Torre de los siete jorobados, La (1944) (Art.D.matte shots)
-Chuflillas (1944)
-Luna de sangre (1944)
-Manolo Reyes (1944)
-Fiebre (1943)
-Sucedió en Damasco (1943)(Art.D.matte shots)
-A la lima y al limón (1942)
-Parrala, La (1942)
-Rosa de África (1941)
-Verbena (1941)
-Pepe Conde (1941) (matte shots)
-Héroe a la fuerza (1941)
-Millones de Polichinela, Los (1941)
-Marianela (1940)
-Florista de la reina, La (1940) (Art.D.matte shots)
-Dernière jeunesse (1939) Last Desire
-Angélica (1939) Blood Red Rose (USA)
-Raphaël le tatoué (1939)
-Ernest le rebelle (1938)
-Disparus de Saint-Agil, Les (1938) (as P. Schild)
-À Venise, une nuit (1937)
-François Premier (1937)
-Hercule (1937)
-Bateliers de la Volga, Les (1936)
-Josette (1936)
-Un de la légion (1936)
-Ferdinand le noceur (1935)
-Jim la houlette (1935)
-Mascotte, La (1935)
-Retour au paradis (1935)
-Scandale, Le (1934)
-Comte Obligado, Le (1934)
-Cavalier Lafleur, Le (1934)
-The Merry Monarch (1933)
-Deux Monsieur de Madame, Les (1933)
-Aventures du roi Pausole, Les (1933) The Adventures of King Pausole)
-Ma femme… homme d’affaires (1932)
-Âge d’or, L’ (1930) (as Schildknecht)
-Femme d’une nuit, La (1930)
-Un chien andalou (1929) (uncredited)
-Napoléon (1927) (as Pierre Schildnecht)
-Michel Strogoff (1926)
-Boy (1926) (as Pierre Schildknecht)
-Más allá de la muerte (1924)
Gallery:
Pierre Schild in France.
He collaborated with Spanish director Luis Buñuel on films like “Un chien Andaluo” and “L´Age D´Or´” for the last one he used some miniatures for the exterior view of a castle and a foreground miniature of interior ceiling.
For the film Les Disparus de Saint Agil(1938) he also made use of miniatures and matte paintings.
matte painting from the film Hercule (1937)
Pedro Schild in Spain.
El ultimo caballo (1959) The cityscape at the upper part was a matte painting.
Matte painting from Heroes del 95. 1947.
