Hal Pereira

Production Designer

About

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Birth Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
December 17, 1983

Biography

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One of Hollywood's most distinguished art directors. Pereira began his career designing film theaters in Chicago, moved to the West Coast in 1942 and was made supervising art director at Paramount in 1950--a post he held for 18 years. Pereira worked on over 150 films and received 23 Academy nominations, each earned with at least one collaborator....

Filmography

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No Way To Treat a Lady (1968)
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The Odd Couple (1968)
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Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
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Blue (1968)
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Project X (1968)
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Will Penny (1968)
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Biography

One of Hollywood's most distinguished art directors. Pereira began his career designing film theaters in Chicago, moved to the West Coast in 1942 and was made supervising art director at Paramount in 1950--a post he held for 18 years. Pereira worked on over 150 films and received 23 Academy nominations, each earned with at least one collaborator.

Filmography

 

Art Director (Feature Film)

No Way To Treat a Lady (1968)
Executive art Director
The Odd Couple (1968)
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Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
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Blue (1968)
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Project X (1968)
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Will Penny (1968)
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Good Times (1967)
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Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
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Barefoot in the Park (1967)
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The Busy Body (1967)
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Chuka (1967)
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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
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El Dorado (1967)
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Warning Shot (1967)
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Hostile Guns (1967)
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Fort Utah (1967)
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Red Tomahawk (1967)
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The President's Analyst (1967)
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
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Apache Uprising (1966)
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The Swinger (1966)
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Waco (1966)
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This Property Is Condemned (1966)
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Paradise--Hawaiian Style (1966)
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
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The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
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Johnny Reno (1966)
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The Oscar (1966)
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Nevada Smith (1966)
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Assault on a Queen (1966)
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
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The Family Jewels (1965)
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Sylvia (1965)
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Town Tamer (1965)
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Billie (1965)
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The Slender Thread (1965)
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Black Spurs (1965)
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Young Fury (1965)
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Boeing Boeing (1965)
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Harlow (1965)
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Red Line 7000 (1965)
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Tickle Me (1965)
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The Strangler (1964)
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Roustabout (1964)
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The Patsy (1964)
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The Carpetbaggers (1964)
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Where Love Has Gone (1964)
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Law of the Lawless (1964)
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Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
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The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
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For Those Who Think Young (1964)
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A House Is Not a Home (1964)
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Lady in a Cage (1964)
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
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Fun in Acapulco (1963)
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
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Donovan's Reef (1963)
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Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
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Wives and Lovers (1963)
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
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Hud (1963)
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Love With the Proper Stranger (1963)
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My Six Loves (1963)
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Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
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McLintock! (1963)
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It's Only Money (1962)
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Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
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Hatari! (1962)
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
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My Geisha (1962)
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
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A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
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Escape from Zahrain (1962)
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
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The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
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Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961)
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The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
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On the Double (1961)
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
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One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
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Summer and Smoke (1961)
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The Errand Boy (1961)
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All in a Night's Work (1961)
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Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
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The Ladies' Man (1961)
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The Rat Race (1960)
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Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
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A Breath of Scandal (1960)
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Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
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G.I. Blues (1960)
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The Bellboy (1960)
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CinderFella (1960)
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It Started in Naples (1960)
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Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
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The Black Orchid (1959)
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The Young Captives (1959)
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The Buccaneer (1959)
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The Hangman (1959)
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Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
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But Not for Me (1959)
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Li'l Abner (1959)
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The Five Pennies (1959)
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That Kind of Woman (1959)
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The Trap (1959)
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Career (1959)
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Alias Jesse James (1959)
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Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
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The Jayhawkers! (1959)
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The Space Children (1958)
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St. Louis Blues (1958)
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As Young as We Are (1958)
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The Geisha Boy (1958)
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Vertigo (1958)
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The Matchmaker (1958)
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Maracaibo (1958)
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
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King Creole (1958)
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Desire Under the Elms (1958)
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The Colossus of New York (1958)
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Houseboat (1958)
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Teacher's Pet (1958)
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Spanish Affair (1958)
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Hot Spell (1958)
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Wild Is the Wind (1958)
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The Party Crashers (1958)
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Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
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Hear Me Good (1957)
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The Devil's Hairpin (1957)
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The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
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The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
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Short Cut to Hell (1957)
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The Lonely Man (1957)
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Three Violent People (1957)
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Funny Face (1957)
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Omar Khayyam (1957)
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The Joker Is Wild (1957)
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Fear Strikes Out (1957)
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The Sad Sack (1957)
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Loving You (1957)
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The Tin Star (1957)
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Beau James (1957)
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
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The Proud and Profane (1956)
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
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The Scarlet Hour (1956)
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The Birds and the Bees (1956)
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The Mountain (1956)
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Hollywood or Bust (1956)
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
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The Rainmaker (1956)
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Pardners (1956)
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Artists and Models (1956)
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That Certain Feeling (1956)
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The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
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The Vagabond King (1956)
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Anything Goes (1956)
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The Leather Saint (1956)
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The Court Jester (1956)
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The Rose Tattoo (1955)
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The Country Girl (1955)
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3 Ring Circus (1955)
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The Desperate Hours (1955)
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You're Never Too Young (1955)
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Lucy Gallant (1955)
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The Seven Little Foys (1955)
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Strategic Air Command (1955)
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Hell's Island (1955)
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Conquest of Space (1955)
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Run for Cover (1955)
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We're No Angels (1955)
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955)
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The Girl Rush (1955)
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The Trouble with Harry (1955)
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The Far Horizons (1955)
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Secret of the Incas (1954)
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Casanova's Big Night (1954)
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Elephant Walk (1954)
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About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
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Jivaro (1954)
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Living It Up (1954)
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Rear Window (1954)
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The Naked Jungle (1954)
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Forever Female (1954)
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Money from Home (1954)
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White Christmas (1954)
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Red Garters (1954)
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Knock on Wood (1954)
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Sabrina (1954)
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Alaska Seas (1954)
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Little Boy Lost (1953)
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Botany Bay (1953)
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Pony Express (1953)
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The Stooge (1953)
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Shane (1953)
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Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
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Thunder in the East (1953)
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Tropic Zone (1953)
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The Vanquished (1953)
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The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
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Sangaree (1953)
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Scared Stiff (1953)
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Road to Bali (1953)
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Houdini (1953)
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Arrowhead (1953)
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Jamaica Run (1953)
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The Stars Are Singing (1953)
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Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)
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Roman Holiday (1953)
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The Caddy (1953)
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Stalag 17 (1953)
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Off Limits (1953)
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Flight to Tangier (1953)
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Here Come the Girls (1953)
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The War of the Worlds (1953)
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My Son John (1952)
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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
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The Savage (1952)
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The Atomic City (1952)
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The Turning Point (1952)
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Caribbean (1952)
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Something to Live For (1952)
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Denver & Rio Grande (1952)
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Sailor Beware (1952)
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Jumping Jacks (1952)
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Carrie (1952)
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Red Mountain (1952)
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Just for You (1952)
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Son of Paleface (1952)
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Hurricane Smith (1952)
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Anything Can Happen (1952)
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
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Somebody Loves Me (1952)
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Passage West (1951)
Supervisor art Director
My Favorite Spy (1951)
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Dear Brat (1951)
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Peking Express (1951)
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Detective Story (1951)
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Here Comes the Groom (1951)
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Submarine Command (1951)
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Darling, How Could You! (1951)
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Molly (1951)
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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
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Silver City (1951)
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
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That's My Boy (1951)
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The Mating Season (1951)
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When Worlds Collide (1951)
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Rhubarb (1951)
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The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
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Blue Skies (1946)
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A Medal for Benny (1945)
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You Came Along (1945)
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Ministry of Fear (1944)
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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And the Angels Sing (1944)
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And Now Tomorrow (1944)
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China (1943)
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Life Events

1944

Feature art direction debut, "Ministry of Fear"

1954

First Alfred Hitchcock film designed, "Rear Window"

1968

Last art directorial effort, "The Odd Couple"

Videos

Movie Clip

To Catch A Thief (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Ever Been Married? Alfred Hitchcock was likely more interested in the color than the story, as he arranges for Robie (Cary Grant) to meet Hughson (John Williams) in the flower market in Nice, in To Catch A Thief, 1955.
When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Most Frightening Discovery Producer George Pal goes biblical with the opening, ubiquitous Paul Frees narration and Rudolph Maté directing, through a backdrop that looks like the Hale telescope at Mount Palomar, CA, described as an imaginary South African observatory, we meet Hayden Rorke (later known as Dr Bellows on TV’s I Dream Of Jeannie) as Bronson, with aides, describing grim findings, in When World’s Collide, 1951.
When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The World Prays More momentous narration from Paul Frees, as world opinion has coalesced around predictions that planet Zyra, then a star, will overwhelm earth, Randall and Joyce (Richard Derr, Barbara Rush) in the control center with her scientist father (Larry Keating) and John Hoyt as the disabled unstable financier Stanton, the escape rocket ready, as producer George Pal lets loose the SFX, in When World’s Collide, 1951.
War Of The Worlds, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I've Seen Enough At the American headquarters in Washington, the Secretary of Defense (Freeman Lusk) concludes it's time to nuke the Martians, in the 1953 George Pal production of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds.
Vertigo (1958) -- (Movie Clip) What About My Acrophobia? The first quasi-domestic scene for "Scottie" (James Stewart), a detective who's retired after an incident in the opening sequence, with his not-girlfriend Midge (Barbara Bel Geddes), exposition from Alfred Hitchcock, in Vertigo, 1958.
Vertigo (1958) -- (Movie Clip) That's Carlotta Ex-cop "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) grows ever more intrigued as Madeleine (Kim Novak), who he's been hired to follow around San Francisco, demonstrates her interest in long-dead Carlotta, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, 1958.
Vertigo (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Dining At Ernie's For the audience and for acrophobic ex-cop "Scottie" (James Stewart), the first look at Madeleine (Kim Novak) whose husband Elster (Tom Helmore) has hired him to follow around San Francisco, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, 1958.
Vertigo (1958) -- (Movie Clip) What Am I Doing Here? Arguably the first climax in the film, ex-policeman "Scottie" (James Stewart), hired to track mysterious Madeleine (Kim Novak) and now fascinated, follows her to the Golden Gate Bridge, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, 1958.
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Pellet With The Poison Danny Kaye as Hawkins (posing as "Giacomo") challenged to a duel, in the famous routine with Jean (Glynis Johns) and Griselda (Mildred Natwick) plotting his escape, in The Court Jester, 1956, from Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.
To Catch A Thief (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Very Strong Grip Picnicking in what would become her neighborhood as a princess, Grace Kelly (as "Francie") taunts Cary Grant (whom she rightly accuses of being John "The Cat" Robie) in a provocative scene from Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief. 1955.
To Catch A Thief (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Irregular Verbs Francie (Grace Kelly) swims up with an old joke about "conjugating," as shapely Danielle (Brigitte Auber) offers various suggestions to Robie (Cary Grant) in the surf at Cannes in Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief, 1955.
To Catch A Thief (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Open, My Jewels! Interesting shop-window reflections and comical reactions to jewel theft in the opening credit sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief, 1955, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

Trailer

Stalag 17 -- (Re-issue Trailer) He's a cynic but is he a traitor? William Holden won a Best Actor award as the hard-boiled POW running scams in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953).
Pocketful Of Miracles (1961) -- (Original Trailer) Bette Davis plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra's last movie, Pocketful Of Miracles (1961).
Houseboat - (Original Trailer) Cary Grant is a widower who hires runaway socialite Sophia Loren to look after his children on his rickety Houseboat (1958).
This Property Is Condemned - (Original Trailer) A small-town girl (Natalie Wood) fights her mother's opposition when she falls for a big-city businessman (Robert Redford) in This Property Is Condemned (1966).
Caddy, The - (Original Trailer) Jerry Lewis hits the links while Dean Martin sings "That's Amore" in the comedy hit The Caddy (1953).
Greatest Show On Earth, The - (Original Trailer) Cecil B. DeMille won his one Academy Award® for Best Picture for the circus drama The Greatest Show On Earth (1952).
Girls! Girls! Girls! - (Original Trailer) Elvis is back in Hawaii and Stella Stevens and Laurel Goodwin are just two of the many Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962).
G.I. Blues - (Original Trailer) Elvis returned from his Army stint with a case of the G.I. Blues (1960). Featuring the hits "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Wooden Heart".
Fun in Acapulco - (Original Trailer) The only thing stopping Elvis from having Fun In Acapulco (1963) is a fear of heights. Ursula Andress helps him cope.
Fear Strikes Out - (Original Trailer) Major League star Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) fights to save his sanity in Fear Strikes Out (1957).
Far Horizons, The - (Original Trailer) Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston play Lewis & Clark, setting off for The Far Horizons (1955) for President Jefferson.
El Dorado -- (Original Trailer) John Wayne and Robert Mitchum take on a corrupt cattle baron in Howard Hawks' El Dorado (1967).

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