Alexandre Trauner
- Known for
- Art
- Born
- August 3, 1906, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- Died
- December 5, 1993
- Movies
- 8
Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer.
After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Admiral Horthy. In Paris, he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, at the studios in Épinay-sur-Seine working on such films as À nous la liberté (1932) and La Kermesse héroïque (1935). In 1937, he became a chief set designer.
Trauner worked with director Marcel Carné for some years on such films as Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes, 1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945). Trauner worked in hiding on Children of Paradise, which was filmed at the Victorine Studios in Nice during 1943 and 1944 during the Nazi's Occupation of France.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1989 | Reunion | Caretaker |
| 1986 | Before Midnight | Self (archive footage) |
| 1981 | Le Roi des cons | Le vieux monsieur au petit chien |
| 1978 | Regie: Billy Wilder | Self |
| 1967 | The Birth of Children of Paradise | Self |
| 1958 | Paris mange son pain | Self |
| 1957 | Love in the Afternoon | Artist (uncredited) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1963 | Irma la Douce | Producer |
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