Alexander Golitzen - Movie and Film Biography, Credits and Filmography

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1937 - 1975

Born

February 28, 1907 in Moscow, Russia

Died

July 26, 2005 in San Diego, CA

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by Hal Erickson biography

Russian-born Alexander Golitzen was to Universal Pictures what Cedric Gibbons was to MGM and Van Nest Polglaise to RKO: the resident genius art director. In the U.S. since his teens, Golitzen attended the architecture school of the University of Wisconsin. Entering films in 1933, he first worked at MGM, then for such independent producers as Sam Goldwyn and Walter Wanger. When Wanger moved to Universal for the 1942 adventure film Arabian Nights, he took Golitzen with him. A master of Technicolor production design (still a largely uncultivated field in the early 1940s), Golitzen remained at Universal until his retirement in 1974, holding the title of supervising art director from 1954 onward. Nominated for 13 Oscars, Alexander Golitzen won the award for Phantom of the Opera (43), Spartacus (60) and To Kill a Mockingbird (62).

Title	Year	Editors' Rating		User Rating
Posse Art Director	1975
Earthquake Production Designer	1974
Breezy Art Director	1973
Showdown Art Director	1973
That Man Bolt Art Director	1973
Joe Kidd Art Director	1972
Slaughterhouse-Five Art Director	1972
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid Art Director	1972
How to Frame a Figg Art Director	1971
One More Train to Rob Art Director	1971
Play Misty for Me Art Director	1971
Raid on Rommel Art Director	1971
Red Sky at Morning Art Director	1971
Shoot Out Art Director	1971
Airport Art Director	1970
Colossus: The Forbin Project Art Director	1970
Company of Killers Art Director	1970
I Love My Wife Art Director	1970
Pufnstuf Art Director	1970
Storia di una Donna Art Director	1970
The Beguiled Art Director	1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County Art Director	1970
A Man Called Gannon Art Director	1969
Change of Habit Art Director	1969
Death of a Gunfighter Art Director	1969
Eye of the Cat Art Director	1969
Sweet Charity Art Director	1969
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Art Director	1969
The Lost Man Art Director	1969
The Love God? Art Director	1969
Winning Art Director	1969
A Lovely Way to Die Art Director	1968
Angel in My Pocket Art Director	1968
Coogan's Bluff Art Director	1968
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? Art Director	1968
Don't Just Stand There! Art Director	1968
Hellfighters Art Director	1968
House of Cards Art Director	1968
In Enemy Country Art Director	1968
Journey to Shiloh Art Director	1968
Madigan Art Director, Production Designer	1968
Nobody's Perfect Art Director	1968
P.J. Art Director	1968
The Ballad of Josie Art Director	1968
The Hell with Heroes Art Director	1968
The Pink Jungle Art Director	1968
The Secret War of Harry Frigg Art Director	1968
The Shakiest Gun in the West Art Director	1968
What's So Bad About Feeling Good? Art Director	1968
Counterpoint Art Director	1967
Games Art Director	1967
Gunfight in Abilene Art Director	1967
Rosie! Art Director	1967
Rough Night in Jericho Art Director	1967
The King's Pirate Art Director	1967
The Perils of Pauline Art Director	1967
The Reluctant Astronaut Art Director	1967
The Ride to Hangman's Tree Art Director	1967
The Young Warriors Art Director	1967
Thoroughly Modern Millie Art Director	1967
Beau Geste Art Director	1966
Gambit Art Director	1966
Gunpoint Art Director	1966
Incident at Phantom Hill Art Director	1966
Let's Kill Uncle Art Director	1966
Madame X Art Director	1966
Mirage Art Director	1966
Moment to Moment Art Director	1966
Munster, Go Home! Art Director	1966
Texas Across the River Art Director	1966
The Appaloosa Art Director	1966
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken Art Director	1966
The Pad and How to Use It Art Director	1966
The Plainsman Art Director	1966
The Rare Breed Art Director	1966
Tobruk Art Director	1966
A Very Special Favor Art Director	1965
Fluffy Art Director	1965
I Saw What You Did Art Director	1965
Love and Kisses Art Director	1965
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force Art Director	1965
Shenandoah Art Director	1965
Strange Bedfellows Art Director	1965
That Funny Feeling Art Director	1965
The Sword of Ali Baba Art Director	1965
The War Lord Art Director, Set Designer	1965
The Wild Seed Art Director	1965
Father Goose Art Director	1964
I'd Rather Be Rich Art Director	1964
Island of the Blue Dolphins Art Director	1964
Kitten With a Whip Art Director	1964
McHale's Navy Art Director	1964
Send Me No Flowers Art Director	1964
Taggart Art Director	1964
The Lively Set Art Director	1964
Wild and Wonderful Art Director	1964
William Castle's The Night Walker Art Director	1964
40 Pounds of Trouble Art Director	1963
A Gathering of Eagles Art Director	1963
Bedtime Story Art Director	1963
Captain Newman, M.D. Art Director	1963
For Love or Money Art Director	1963
Man's Favorite Sport? Art Director	1963
Showdown Art Director	1963
Tammy and the Doctor Art Director	1963
The List of Adrian Messenger Art Director	1963
The Thrill of It All! Art Director	1963
The Ugly American Art Director	1963
Cape Fear Art Director	1962
If a Man Answers Art Director	1962
Lonely Are the Brave Art Director	1962
Six Black Horses Art Director	1962
That Touch of Mink Art Director	1962
The Spiral Road Art Director	1962
To Kill a Mockingbird Art Director	1962
Back Street Art Director	1961
Flower Drum Song Production Designer	1961
Lover Come Back Art Director	1961
Posse from Hell Art Director	1961
Tammy, Tell Me True Art Director	1961
The Great Impostor Art Director	1961
The Last Sunset Art Director	1961
The Outsider Art Director	1961
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve Art Director	1961
Midnight Lace Art Director	1960
Seven Ways from Sundown Art Director	1960
Spartacus Production Designer	1960
The Leech Woman Art Director	1960
A Stranger in My Arms Art Director	1959
Curse of the Undead Art Director	1959
Imitation of Life Art Director	1959
Never Steal Anything Small Art Director	1959
No Name on the Bullet Art Director	1959
Operation Petticoat Art Director	1959
Pillow Talk Art Director	1959
The Wild and the Innocent Art Director	1959
This Earth Is Mine Art Director	1959
A Time to Love and a Time to Die Art Director	1958
Appointment with a Shadow Production Designer	1958
Day of the Bad Man Art Director	1958
Flood Tide Art Director	1958
Kathy O' Art Director	1958
Live Fast, Die Young Production Designer	1958
Money, Women and Guns Art Director	1958
Once Upon a Horse Art Director	1958
Raw Wind in Eden Art Director	1958
Ride a Crooked Trail Art Director	1958
Step Down to Terror Art Director	1958
Summer Love Art Director	1958
The Female Animal Art Director	1958
The Lady Takes a Flyer Art Director	1958
The Last of the Fast Guns Art Director	1958
The Perfect Furlough Art Director	1958
The Restless Years Art Director	1958
The Saga of Hemp Brown Art Director	1958
The Thing That Couldn't Die Art Director	1958
The Voice in the Mirror Art Director, Set Designer	1958
This Happy Feeling Art Director	1958
Touch of Evil Art Director	1958
Twilight for the Gods Art Director	1958
Wild Heritage Art Director	1958
Gun for a Coward Art Director	1957
Interlude Art Director	1957
Istanbul Art Director	1957
Joe Butterfly Art Director	1957
Joe Dakota Art Director	1957
Kelly and Me Art Director	1957
Man Afraid Art Director	1957
Man in the Shadow Art Director	1957
Man of a Thousand Faces Art Director	1957
Mister Cory Art Director	1957
My Man Godfrey Art Director	1957
Night Passage Art Director	1957
Quantez Art Director	1957
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Art Director	1957
Slim Carter Art Director	1957
The Deadly Mantis Art Director	1957
The Girl in the Kremlin Art Director	1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man Art Director	1957
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm Art Director	1957
The Land Unknown Art Director	1957
The Midnight Story Art Director	1957
The Monolith Monsters Art Director	1957
The Night Runner Art Director	1957
The Tarnished Angels Art Director	1957
The Tattered Dress Art Director	1957
A Day of Fury Art Director	1956
Away All Boats Art Director	1956
Battle Hymn Art Director	1956
Behind the High Wall Art Director	1956
Congo Crossing Art Director	1956
Everything But the Truth Art Director	1956
Four Girls in Town Art Director	1956
Francis in the Haunted House Art Director	1956
I've Lived Before Art Director	1956
Never Say Goodbye Art Director	1956
Pillars of the Sky Art Director	1956
Raw Edge Art Director	1956
Red Sundown Art Director	1956
Rock, Pretty Baby Art Director	1956
Showdown at Abilene Art Director	1956
Star in the Dust Art Director	1956
The Creature Walks Among Us Production Designer	1956
The Great Man Art Director	1956
The Kettles in the Ozarks Art Director	1956
The Mole People Art Director	1956
The Price of Fear Art Director	1956
The Rawhide Years Art Director	1956
The Unguarded Moment Art Director	1956
The World in My Corner Art Director	1956
There's Always Tomorrow Art Director	1956
Toy Tiger Art Director	1956
Walk the Proud Land Art Director	1956
Written on the Wind Art Director	1956
All That Heaven Allows Art Director	1955
Captain Lightfoot Art Director	1955
Chief Crazy Horse Art Director	1955
Female on the Beach Art Director	1955
Foxfire Art Director	1955
Francis in the Navy Art Director	1955
Kiss of Fire Art Director	1955
Lady Godiva Art Director	1955
Man Without a Star Art Director	1955
One Desire Art Director	1955
Revenge of the Creature Art Director	1955
Running Wild Art Director	1955
Six Bridges to Cross Art Director	1955
Smoke Signal Art Director	1955
Tarantula Art Director	1955
The Far Country Art Director	1955
The Looters Art Director	1955
The Man from Bitter Ridge Art Director	1955
The Private War of Major Benson Art Director	1955
The Purple Mask Art Director	1955
The Second Greatest Sex Art Director	1955
The Shrike Art Director	1955
The Spoilers Art Director	1955
The Square Jungle Art Director	1955
This Island Earth Art Director	1955
To Hell and Back Art Director	1955
Bengal Brigade Art Director	1954
Dawn at Socorro Production Designer	1954
Destry Art Director	1954
Four Guns to the Border Production Designer	1954
Francis Joins the Wacs Art Director	1954
Naked Alibi Production Designer	1954
Ricochet Romance Art Director	1954
Sign of the Pagan Art Director	1954
So This Is Paris Art Director	1954
The Black Shield of Falworth Production Designer	1954
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars Production Designer	1953
All I Desire Art Director	1953
Column South Art Director	1953
Desert Legion Art Director	1953
Girls in the Night Art Director	1953
Gunsmoke Art Director	1953
Law and Order Art Director	1953
Seminole Art Director	1953
Take Me to Town Art Director	1953
The Great Sioux Uprising Art Director	1953
The Lone Hand Art Director	1953
The Man from the Alamo Production Designer	1953
The Mississippi Gambler Art Director	1953
The Veils of Bagdad Art Director	1953
Thunder Bay Art Director	1953
War Arrow Art Director	1953
Against All Flags Art Director	1952
It Grows on Trees Art Director	1952
The Duel at Silver Creek Art Director	1952
The Treasure of Lost Canyon Art Director	1952
The World in His Arms Art Director	1952
Smuggler's Island Art Director	1951
The Golden Horde Art Director	1951
Up Front Art Director	1951
You Never Can Tell Art Director	1951
Double Crossbones Art Director	1950
Spy Hunt Art Director	1950
Sword in the Desert Art Director	1949
The Lady Gambles Art Director	1949
Letter from an Unknown Woman Production Designer	1948
Tap Roots Production Designer	1948
The Saxon Charm Art Director	1948
You Gotta Stay Happy Production Designer	1948
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman Art Director	1947
The Lost Moment Art Director	1947
A Night in Paradise Art Director	1946
Canyon Passage Associate Producer	1946
Magnificent Doll Production Designer	1946
Salome, Where She Danced Art Director, Producer	1945
Scarlet Street Art Director	1945
Cobra Woman Art Director	1944
Hi, Beautiful Art Director	1944
San Diego, I Love You Art Director	1944
Gung Ho! Art Director	1943
The Phantom of the Opera Art Director	1943
We've Never Been Licked Art Director	1943
Eagle Squadron Art Director	1942
The Arabian Nights Production Designer	1942
Sundown Art Director	1941
That Uncertain Feeling Art Director	1941
Foreign Correspondent Art Director	1940
Slightly Honorable Art Director	1940
The House Across the Bay Art Director	1940
Eternally Yours Art Director	1939
Trade Winds Art Director	1938
The Hurricane Art Director	1937
The Perfect Specimen Art Director	1937

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