Carl Jules Weyl

German-born art director, a U.S. citizen from 1920, who enjoyed a successful career as an architect in the 1920's. He designed a number of significant buildings in and around Los Angeles, including the Brown Derby Restaurant, the Hollywood Boulevard Building and the Hollywood Palace Theatre. Weyl joined Warner Brothers, under contract from 1934 to 1947, where he worked on two of the most famous films directed by Michael Curtiz: Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Casablanca (1942). He won his only Academy Award for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), his overall design inspired by the romanticised illustrations of Howard Pyle's 1883 novel "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire".