A onetime architecture student at Vienna University, Czechoslovakia-born art director Harry Horner became an assistant to Austrian theatrical impresario Max Reinhardt, working on such spectacular touring productions as The Eternal Road. Horner came to Hollywood in 1940 as an associate of the celebrated production designer William Cameron Menzies, earning his first screen credit for Our Town (1940). While in special services during World War II, he designed the all-serviceman theatrical pageant Winged Victory. Back in Hollywood, he earned Academy Awards for his work on The Heiress (1949) and The Hustler (1961), and received an Oscar nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). He made his directorial bow with the Ida Lupino-Robert Ryan thriller Beware My Lovely; his later assignments included the 1952 Laura remake Vicki, the propagandistic science fiction drama Red Planet Mars, and the "canned theatre" musical New Faces (1954). Harry Horner spent many of his last professional years producing and directing for television.
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The Jazz Singer
Production Designer |
1980 | |||
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Moment by Moment
Production Designer |
1978 | |||
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The Driver
Production Designer |
1978 | |||
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Audrey Rose
Production Designer |
1977 | |||
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Harry and Walter Go to New York
Production Designer |
1976 | |||
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The Black Bird
Production Designer |
1975 | |||
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Up the Sandbox
Production Designer |
1972 | |||
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Production Designer |
1971 | |||
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Production Designer |
1969 | |||
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Fahrenheit 451
Production Designer |
1966 | |||
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Production Designer |
1964 | |||
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The Hustler
Production Designer |
1961 | |||
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The Wonderful Country
Art Director |
1959 | |||
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Separate Tables
Production Designer |
1958 | |||
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Man from Del Rio
Director |
1956 | |||
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The Wild Party
Director |
1956 | |||
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A Life in the Balance
Director |
1955 | |||
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New Faces
Director |
1954 | |||
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Vicki
Director |
1953 | |||
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Beware, My Lovely
Director |
1952 | |||
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Red Planet Mars
Director |
1952 | |||
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He Ran All the Way
Art Director |
1951 | |||
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Born Yesterday
Art Director |
1950 | |||
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The Heiress
Art Director |
1949 | |||
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A Double Life
Production Designer |
1947 | |||
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Stage Door Canteen
Production Designer |
1943 | |||
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Tarzan Triumphs
Production Designer |
1943 | |||
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Our Town
Production Designer |
1940 |