31 Facts About Nathan Juran

Naftuli Hertz "Nathan" Juran was an Austro-Hungarian-born film art director, and later film and television director.

Nathan Juran was the brother of quality guru Joseph M Juran.

Nathan Juran earned a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota.

Nathan Juran spent a summer studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts before earning a master's degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nathan Juran passed the architect's exam and set up his own office as an architect.

Nathan Juran sought architecture work at the studios and got a job doing a drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge for RKO Radio Pictures.

Nathan Juran managed to get a permanent job as a draftsman in the art department.

Nathan Juran was an assistant art director on Quality Street.

Nathan Juran then joined 20th Century Fox, assisting art department head Richard Day on How Green Was My Valley.

Nathan Juran worked on I Wake Up Screaming, A Gentleman at Heart, Ten Gentlemen from West Point, The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, Dr Renault's Secret, It's Everybody's War, and That Other Woman.

Nathan Juran enlisted in the Navy during the Second World War in July 1942 and was assigned to first the Office of Strategic Services and then to the Royal Air Force Intelligence Center.

Nathan Juran accepted a seven-year contract to be head of the art department for Enterprise Productions.

When Enterprise collapsed, Nathan Juran did Kiss the Blood Off My Hands for Harold Hecht and Tulsa for Walter Wanger.

Nathan Juran then signed a long-term contract with Universal, where he was the art director on Free for All, Undertow, Winchester '73, Deported, Harvey, Bright Victory, Thunder on the Hill, Reunion in Reno, Cave of Outlaws, The Strange Door, Meet Danny Wilson, Bend of the River and Untamed Frontier.

Nathan Juran was assigned as art department head for The Black Castle, when director Joseph Pevney dropped out shortly before filming.

Nathan Juran was asked to take over as director two weeks prior to filming.

Nathan Juran made an Audie Murphy Western Gunsmoke, and a Ronald Reagan Western Law and Order, then did The Golden Blade, an "Eastern" with Rock Hudson and Tumbleweed with Murphy.

Nathan Juran went to Italy in 1954 to direct a swashbuckler, Knights of the Queen, based on The Three Musketeers.

Nathan Juran then directed some episodes of a TV series based on the movie.

Nathan Juran returned to Hollywood to direct an independent film, Highway Dragnet based on a story by Roger Corman.

Nathan Juran directed episodes of Fury, Crossroads and My Friend Flicka on TV, and The Crooked Web for Sam Katzman at Columbia.

Nathan Juran followed this with Hellcats of the Navy starring Ronald Reagan and his wife.

Nathan Juran was unhappy with how Arous turned out and arranged for his billing to be "Nathan Hertz".

Nathan Juran did a Western for Schneer, Good Day for a Hanging and, for TV, episodes of Frances Langford Presents, World of Giants, and Men Into Space.

Nathan Juran got back into features with a motion picture he wrote himself, Jack the Giant Killer for producer Edward Small.

Nathan Juran then did Flight of the Lost Balloon, which was released first, an adventure heavily influenced by Jules Verne, which he co-wrote and directed.

Nathan Juran did an imperial adventure for Schneer, East of Sudan and directed second unit on Cyrano et d'Artagnan.

Nathan Juran directed episodes of A Man Called Shenandoah and Daniel Boone, and episodes of all four of Irwin Allen's 1960s science fiction series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.

Nathan Juran did a feature for Schneer, Land Raiders, a Western, before an operation for cancer prompted him to retire in 1970.

Nathan Juran returned from retirement to direct The Boy Who Cried Werewolf with his old Sinbad star, Kerwin Mathews.

Nathan Juran died at the age of 95 in Palos Verdes, California, US.