Alexander Golitzen

Art Director

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Also Known As

Alexander Golizen, Alex Golitzen

Birth Place

Russia

Born

February 28, 1908

Died

July 26, 2005

Cause of Death

Congestive Heart Failure

Biography

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Hollywood veteran who began his career at United Artists in the mid-1930s. From 1944 most of Golitzen's work was for Universal, where he was made supervising art director in 1960....

Filmography

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Canyon Passage (1946)

Associate Producer

A Night in Paradise (1946)

Associate Producer

Salome, Where She Danced (1945)

Associate Producer

That Man Bolt (1973)

Showdown (1973)

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Sweet Charity (1969) -- (Movie Clip) The Rhythm Of Life

Foxfire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) What's The Diff?

Biography

Hollywood veteran who began his career at United Artists in the mid-1930s. From 1944 most of Golitzen's work was for Universal, where he was made supervising art director in 1960.

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Canyon Passage (1946)

Associate Producer

A Night in Paradise (1946)

Associate Producer

Salome, Where She Danced (1945)

Associate Producer

Art Director (Feature Film)

That Man Bolt (1973)

Showdown (1973)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Joe Kidd (1972)

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)

Raid on Rommel (1971)

The Beguiled (1971)

How to Frame a Figg (1971)

Play Misty for Me (1971)

One More Train to Rob (1971)

Red Sky at Morning (1971)

Story of a Woman (1970)

Company of Killers (1970)

Lost Flight (1970)

The Forbin Project (1970)

I Love My Wife (1970)

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)

Pufnstuf (1970)

Eye of the Cat (1969)

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)

House of Cards (1969)

Sweet Charity (1969)

Death of a Gunfighter (1969)

Angel in My Pocket (1969)

Change of Habit (1969)

The Lost Man (1969)

A Man Called Gannon (1969)

The Love God? (1969)

The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

Nobody's Perfect (1968)

The Ballad of Josie (1968)

Counterpoint (1968)

In Enemy Country (1968)

The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

The Hell With Heroes (1968)

Journey to Shiloh (1968)

Don't Just Stand There! (1968)

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

A Lovely Way To Die (1968)

Hellfighters (1968)

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

The Pink Jungle (1968)

Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968)

The Perils of Pauline (1967)

The King's Pirate (1967)

Rough Night in Jericho (1967)

The Young Warriors (1967)

Gunfight in Abilene (1967)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

The Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967)

The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)

The Pad (And How To Use It) (1966)

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)

Moment to Moment (1966)

Texas Across the River (1966)

... And Now Miguel (1966)

The Plainsman (1966)

Beau Geste (1966)

The Appaloosa (1966)

Blindfold (1966)

Madame X (1966)

Munster, Go Home! (1966)

Let's Kill Uncle (1966)

Gunpoint (1966)

The Rare Breed (1966)

Strange Bedfellows (1965)

Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)

The Art of Love (1965)

Shenandoah (1965)

The War Lord (1965)

Wild Seed (1965)

Love and Kisses (1965)

The Sword of Ali Baba (1965)

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)

I Saw What You Did (1965)

A Very Special Favor (1965)

That Funny Feeling (1965)

Send Me No Flowers (1964)

I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)

The Lively Set (1964)

Bedtime Story (1964)

Father Goose (1964)

Bullet for a Badman (1964)

Wild and Wonderful (1964)

McHale's Navy (1964)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Kitten With a Whip (1964)

Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)

Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)

The Night Walker (1964)

The Thrill of It All (1963)

For Love or Money (1963)

Captain Newman, M. D. (1963)

Tammy and the Doctor (1963)

Showdown (1963)

The Ugly American (1963)

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

Forty Pounds of Trouble (1963)

A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

That Touch of Mink (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Six Black Horses (1962)

The Spiral Road (1962)

Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Cape Fear (1962)

If a Man Answers (1962)

The Outsider (1961)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Tammy Tell Me True (1961)

The Private Lives of Adam & Eve (1961)

The Great Impostor (1961)

Back Street (1961)

The Last Sunset (1961)

Posse From Hell (1961)

College Confidential (1960)

Spartacus (1960)

Production Design

Midnight Lace (1960)

The Leech Woman (1960)

Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)

Hell Bent for Leather (1960)

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

Never Steal Anything Small (1959)

The Perfect Furlough (1959)

Money, Women and Guns (1959)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Curse of the Undead (1959)

No Name on the Bullet (1959)

A Stranger in My Arms (1959)

The Wild and the Innocent (1959)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Twilight for the Gods (1958)

Once Upon a Horse... (1958)

Flood Tide (1958)

Day of the Bad Man (1958)

The Tarnished Angels (1958)

Kathy O' (1958)

The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)

The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)

The Female Animal (1958)

The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

Wild Heritage (1958)

This Happy Feeling (1958)

Step Down to Terror (1958)

Raw Wind in Eden (1958)

Monster on the Campus (1958)

The Restless Years (1958)

Voice in the Mirror (1958)

The Big Beat (1958)

Appointment with a Shadow (1958)

Girls on the Loose (1958)

Live Fast, Die Young (1958)

The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)

Summer Love (1958)

Damn Citizen (1958)

Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)

Joe Butterfly (1957)

Mister Cory (1957)

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Man in the Shadow (1957)

Gun for a Coward (1957)

Man Afraid (1957)

Interlude (1957)

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957)

Istanbul (1957)

The Land Unknown (1957)

My Man Godfrey (1957)

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

Night Passage (1957)

Slim Carter (1957)

Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)

Written on the Wind (1957)

Four Girls in Town (1957)

Battle Hymn (1957)

Rock, Pretty Baby (1957)

The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)

The Tattered Dress (1957)

The Night Runner (1957)

Kelly and Me (1957)

The Midnight Story (1957)

Joe Dakota (1957)

Never Say Goodbye (1956)

Away All Boats (1956)

The Unguarded Moment (1956)

Backlash (1956)

The Toy Tiger (1956)

Star in the Dust (1956)

There's Always Tomorrow (1956)

The Square Jungle (1956)

The Price of Fear (1956)

The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Francis in the Haunted House (1956)

The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)

Congo Crossing (1956)

The Mole People (1956)

The Rawhide Years (1956)

Showdown at Abilene (1956)

A Day of Fury (1956)

Everything but the Truth (1956)

Red Sundown (1956)

Outside the Law (1956)

Behind the High Wall (1956)

World in My Corner (1956)

Raw Edge (1956)

Pillars of the Sky (1956)

Walk the Proud Land (1956)

Supervisor art Director

The Spoilers (1956)

The Benny Goodman Story (1956)

All That Heaven Allows (1956)

Man Without a Star (1955)

Smoke Signal (1955)

Chief Crazy Horse (1955)

The Far Country (1955)

Female on the Beach (1955)

This Island Earth (1955)

The Second Greatest Sex (1955)

The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955)

Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)

The Purple Mask (1955)

To Hell and Back (1955)

Running Wild (1955)

The Shrike (1955)

Captain Lightfoot (1955)

So This Is Paris (1955)

Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)

The Looters (1955)

Kiss of Fire (1955)

Six Bridges to Cross (1955)

The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

Cult of the Cobra (1955)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

One Desire (1955)

Francis in the Navy (1955)

Tarantula (1955)

Naked Alibi (1954)

Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Bengal Brigade (1954)

The Yellow Mountain (1954)

Playgirl (1954)

Ricochet Romance (1954)

Fireman Save My Child (1954)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Dawn at Socorro (1954)

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

Sign of the Pagan (1954)

Francis Joins the WACS (1954)

The Mississippi Gambler (1953)

The Great Sioux Uprising (1953)

The Man from the Alamo (1953)

The Lone Hand (1953)

Girls in the Night (1953)

Thunder Bay (1953)

All I Desire (1953)

Column South (1953)

War Arrow (1953)

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

Seminole (1953)

Take Me to Town (1953)

Desert Legion (1953)

Law and Order (1953)

Gunsmoke (1953)

City Beneath the Sea (1953)

The Veils of Bagdad (1953)

The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)

The World in His Arms (1952)

Against All Flags (1952)

It Grows on Trees (1952)

The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)

Smuggler's Island (1951)

Frenchie (1951)

You Never Can Tell (1951)

The Golden Horde (1951)

Double Crossbones (1951)

Up Front (1951)

Tales of the West 4 (1951)

["Western Courage"] art Director

Tales of the West 3 (1950)

Art Director ["Rustlers' Ransom"]

Spy Hunt (1950)

The Lady Gambles (1949)

You Gotta Stay Happy (1949)

Production Design

Sword in the Desert (1949)

Tap Roots (1948)

Production Design

The Saxon Charm (1948)

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Smash Up--The Story of a Woman (1947)

The Lost Moment (1947)

Something in the Wind (1947)

A Night in Paradise (1946)

Magnificent Doll (1946)

Salome, Where She Danced (1945)

Scarlet Street (1945)

Hi, Beautiful (1944)

The Climax (1944)

Cobra Woman (1944)

San Diego, I Love You (1944)

Ladies Courageous (1944)

Gung Ho! (1943)

We've Never Been Licked (1943)

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Arabian Nights (1942)

Production Design

Eagle Squadron (1942)

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

The House Across the Bay (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Eternally Yours (1939)

Slightly Honorable (1939)

Trade Winds (1938)

Art Director Associate

The Hurricane (1937)

The Call of the Wild (1935)

Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)

Life Events

1935

Feature debut, credited for art direction, "The Call of the Wild"

1945

Feature debut as producer, "Salome - Where She Danced"

1953

First collaboration with Douglas Sirk, as art director, "All I Desire"

1957

Credited for art direction on six films directed by Jack Arnold from 1957-1959, beginning with, "The Incredible Shrinking Man"

1971

Served as art director on Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, "Play Misty For Me"

1974

Last feature credit, "Earthquake"

Videos

Sweet Charity (1969) -- (Movie Clip) The Rhythm Of Life Bob Fosse directing his first movie, from his Broadway show, stages a number for Sammy Davis Jr., who's Big Daddy, head of a New York

Foxfire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) What's The Diff? After credits with an eponymous title song (with the lyric written by leading man Jeff Chandler!) promising mining industry melodrama, top-billed Jane Russell encounters car trouble and some sassy Native fellow motorists, in Foxfire, 1955, from the popular novel by Anya Seton.

All That Heaven Allows (1955) -- (Movie Clip) So Few Widows Wear It Escorted by stately Harvey (Conrad Nagel), Connecticut widow Cary (Jane Wyman) turns heads at the country club, cruelly greeted by Mona (Jacqueline de Wit), defended by Sara (Agnes Moorehead) then jumped by Howard (Donald Curtis), social tumult in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

All That Heaven Allows (1955) -- (Movie Clip) This May Be My Last Year Using the Universal backlot as suburban Connecticut, Agnes Moorehead as Sara conducts exposition regarding Jane Wyman (as "Cary,") at first hardly noticing the hunky gardener Ron (Rock Hudson), opening Douglas Sirk's celebrated All That Heaven Allows, 1955, produced by Ross Hunter.

Written On The Wind (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Not Duties, Pleasures Right-hand man Mitch (Rock Hudson) has persuaded Lucy (Lauren Bacall), secretary in a Manhattan ad agency, to meet his playboy Texas oil-family scion and virtual-brother Kyle (Robert Stack) at "21," early in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.

Written On The Wind (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To Hadley First appearance of oil tycoon Hadley (Robert Keith), atop his tower in the town named after him, with protege Mitch (Rock Hudson), joined soon by his sobered-up son Kyle (Robert Stack), introducing his new wife Lucy (Lauren Bacall), in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.

Written On The Wind (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Thank You, Sir Galahad First appearance of trampy oil heiress Marylee (Dorothy Malone), with grabby Roy (John Larch) and barkeeper Dan (Robert J. Wilke), who has called her newly-wedded and sober brother Kyle (Robert Stack) and his wing man Mitch (Rock Hudson), in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.

Written On The Wind (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Open, November 1956 Dramatic and fancy opening from director Douglas Sirk, Robert Stack as "Kyle" and Lauren Bacall as wife "Lucy" featured, from Written On The Wind, 1957, also starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone.

Written On The Wind (1957) -- (Movie Clip) You're My Girl As Douglas Sirk-ian as scenes get, Texas oil heiress Marylee (Dorothy Malone) remembering brother Kyle and friend Mitch, who grew up to be Rock Hudson, himself love-lorn, and her target behind the scenes at a family party, in Written On The Wind, 1957.

Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) To The Galley, Wench! Narration by star Grant Williams, notably grim as he enjoys a slightly ribald exchange on a borrowed yacht with his wife (Randy Stuart), opening director Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957, from Richard Matheson's story and screenplay.

Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Looks Like A Rough Day Director Delbert Mann's opening, introducing Doris Day, and later her aide Ann B. Davis, and rival Madison Avenue ad man Jerry (Rock Hudson), with an uncredited companion, then assistant Karen Norris, and a new contract up for grabs, in Lover Come Back, 1961.

Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Seconds Before You Die Out of work model and/or actress and single mom Lora (Lana Turner) has schemed her way into an after-hours meeting at the office of theatrical agent Loomis (Robert Alda) who, it turns out, lacks certain scruples, early in Douglas Sirk's Imitation Of Life, 1959.

Sweet Charity - (Original Trailer) A taxi dancer (Shirley MacLaine) is unlucky in love in Bob Fosse's musical Sweet Charity(1969).

Foreign Correspondent - (Original Trailer) A camera with gun attachment, trick windmills and a mid-ocean plane crash are some of the predicaments facing Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940).

Against All Flags - (Original Trailer) A British officer (Errol Flynn) must face off against the pirates of Madagascar in Against All Flags (1952).

Last Sunset, The - (Original Trailer) A sheriff (Rock Hudson) finds the outlaw (Kirk Douglas) he's hunting leading a cattle drive and decides to help him before arresting him in Robert Aldrich's The Last Sunset (1961).

All That Heaven Allows - (Original Trailer) A lonely widow (Jane Wyman) defies small-town gossip when she falls for a younger man (Rock Hudson) in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955).

Imitation of Life (1959) - (Original Trailer) Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters in Douglas Sirk's Imitation Of Life (1959) starring Lana Turner.

Far Country, The -- (Original Trailer) Two cowboys on the road to Alaska help a wagon train in trouble in Anthony Mann's The Far Country (1955) starring James Stewart.

Gambit - (Original Trailer) A man (Michael Caine) dreams of the perfect robbery but can't seem to pull it off in Gambit (1966) co-starring Shirley MacLaine.

To Kill a Mockingbird - (Original Trailer) A young girl grows up fast when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) starring Gregory Peck.

Flower Drum Song - (Original Trailer) A refugee travels to Chinatown as a mail-order bride in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical comedy Flower Drum Song (1961).

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - (Re-issue Trailer) A rebellious Native American races to elude a bloodthirsty posse in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) starring Robert Blake and Robert Redford.

War Lord, The - (Original Trailer) Charlton Heston is a medieval knight who exercises his right to sleep with another man's bride on their wedding night in The War Lord (1965).

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