Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE

Order of the British Empire

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, born Klaus Hugo Adam (born 5 February 1921), is a motion picture production designer

Production designer

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 most famous for his set designs for the James Bond

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 films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Adam was born in Berlin

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, Germany

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 to a Jewish

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 family, the son of a former Prussia

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n cavalry

Cavalry

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man. His father and uncles George and Otto owned a successful high-fashion clothing store, so the family was well-off. The company S.Adam (Berlin, Leipziger Straße / Ecke Friederichstraße) was established in 1863 by Saul Adam.