Hans Peters is the only contestant who has ever won Lotto Weekend Miljonairs (the Dutch version of Who wants to be a Millionaire). He won on January 6, 2001. Because the euro wasn't used yet, he won NLG 1,000,000 instead of €1,000,000. The question that won him NLG 1,000,000 was, translated from Dutch: "Who designed the last series of the Dutch Gulden coins, as well as the Dutch side of the euro coins?", with these choices: Luk Luycks, Bruno N. van Eyben, Jaap Drupsteen and R.D.E. Oxenaar. The correct answer was Bruno N. van Eyben.
As a set designer renowned for his work on films with historical settings, he was assigned by MGM to work on their prestige production of "Lust For Life", but had an exceptionally acrimonious relationship with director Vincente Minnelli. The latter insisted he could not work with Peters, so the studio replaced Peters with Preston Ames, a favorite Minnelli colleague.
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Following the early death of William A. Horning in 1959, he was interim head of M-G-M's art department for about a year, and was, following the usual Hollywood custom of the time, given a shared credit on all films and TV episodes produced during that period at the studio. However, the appointment was not a permanent one; George W. Davis then took over and held the post for over a decade.
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London-born art director in Hollywood. Began at 20th Century Fox (1935-40). Briefly at RKO (1943), then settled at MGM from 1944 until his retirement twenty years later. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Did possibly his best work on The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and Lust for Life (1956).
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Strictly Dishonorable
1951
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
Kim
1950
Key to the City
1950
Battleground
1949
Border Incident
1949
The Red Danube
1949
The Great Sinner
1949
Act of Violence
1949
If Winter Comes
1947
Song of Love
1947
The Beginning or the End
1947
Easy to Wed
1946
The Green Years
1946
Twice Blessed
1945
Thrill of a Romance
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
Music for Millions
1944
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943
So This Is Washington
1943
Stage Door Canteen
1943
Tarzan Triumphs
1943
Pot o' Gold
1941
The Man I Married
1940
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
Second Fiddle
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
The Little Princess
1939
Submarine Patrol
1938
Hold That Co-ed
1938
Little Miss Broadway
1938
Always Goodbye
1938
Three Blind Mice
1938
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938
The Baroness and the Butler
1938
Heidi
1937
Life Begins at College
1937
Slave Ship
1937
Café Metropole
1937
Midnight Taxi
1937
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937
Banjo on My Knee
1936
Pigskin Parade
1936
Girls' Dormitory
1936
Sins of Man
1936
The Road to Glory
1936
It Had to Happen
1936
King of Burlesque
1936
Dressed to Thrill
1935
Hell in the Heavens
1934
The Americanization of Emily
1964
The Hook
1963
Boys' Night Out
1962
Bachelor in Paradise
1961
Return to Peyton Place
1961
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960
Never So Few
1959
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
Girls Town
1959
Tarzan, the Ape Man
1959
It Started with a Kiss
1959
The Lawless Years
1959
TV Series 3 episodes
The Thin Man
1957-1959
TV Series 24 episodes
One Step Beyond
1959
TV Series 2 episodes
Union Pacific
1959
TV Series 1 episode
High School Confidential!
1958
Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957
Man on Fire
1957
Slander
1957
The Power and the Prize
1956
Lust for Life
1956
High Society
1956
Diane
1956
Moonfleet
1955
Many Rivers to Cross
1955
Rogue Cop
1954
Knights of the Round Table
1953
Remains to Be Seen
1953
Small Town Girl
1953
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
Scaramouche
1952
Lone Star
1952
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ladies in Love
1936
associate art director
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Miracle
1959
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1965
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
1957
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Lust for Life (1956)
1954
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
1951
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
The Red Danube (1949)
1946
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
$1.7 Million
