American production designer Richard Day first gained industry notice as one of the most trusted associates of director Erich von Stroheim. After successfully translating Stroheim's designs to on-set reality in 1919's Blind Husbands, Day remained as the director's principal set decorator throughout the '20s. Day's cathedral altar set for 1928's The Wedding March was so authentic looking that cinematographer Hal Mohr elected to be married before it! Working in collaboration during the early-talkie years, Day went solo as a production designer in 1930, then latched onto Samuel Goldwyn studios, where he won Academy Awards for his work on The Dark Angel (1935) and Dodsworth (1936). While with 20th Century-Fox in 1942, Day conceived the meticulously detailed Welsh village set for How Green Was My Valley (1941), which would see service in several subsequent productions until it was bulldozed along with the rest of the studio backlot in 1962. Richard Day went on to win additional Oscars for This Above All (1942) and My Gal Sal (1942) at Fox, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) at Warner Bros., and On the Waterfront (1954) at Columbia. Richard Day's final assignment was 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!, a painstakingly accurate restaging of the Pearl Harbor attack, for which 20th Century-Fox spent more money than the Japanese had on the original attack in 1941.
| Title | Year | Editors' Rating | User Rating | |
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Art Director |
1970 | |||
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Tribes
Art Director |
1970 | |||
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The Boston Strangler
Art Director |
1968 | |||
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The Sweet Ride
Art Director |
1968 | |||
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The Happening
Production Designer |
1967 | |||
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Valley of the Dolls
Art Director |
1967 | |||
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The Chase
Production Designer |
1966 | |||
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Production Designer |
1965 | |||
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Cheyenne Autumn
Art Director |
1964 | |||
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Goodbye Charlie
Art Director |
1964 | |||
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Something Wild
Art Director |
1961 | |||
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Exodus
Art Director |
1960 | |||
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Solomon and Sheba
Art Director |
1959 | |||
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Never Love a Stranger
Producer, Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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On the Waterfront
Art Director |
1954 | |||
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Hans Christian Andersen
Art Director |
1952 | |||
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Art Director |
1951 | |||
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Cry Danger
Art Director |
1951 | |||
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I Want You
Art Director |
1951 | |||
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Edge of Doom
Art Director |
1950 | |||
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Our Very Own
Art Director |
1950 | |||
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My Foolish Heart
Art Director |
1949 | |||
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Force of Evil
Art Director |
1948 | |||
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Joan of Arc
Art Director |
1948 | |||
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Boomerang!
Art Director |
1947 | |||
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Captain from Castile
Art Director |
1947 | |||
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Art Director |
1947 | |||
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Miracle on 34th Street
Art Director |
1947 | |||
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Moss Rose
Art Director |
1947 | |||
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Mother Wore Tights
Production Designer |
1947 | |||
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Art Director |
1947 | |||
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The Razor's Edge
Art Director |
1946 | |||
|
Up in Arms
Consultant/advisor |
1944 | |||
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Crash Dive
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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Dixie Dugan
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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He Hired the Boss
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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Margin for Error
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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My Friend Flicka
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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The Immortal Sergeant
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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The Meanest Man in the World
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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Tonight We Raid Calais
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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A Gentleman at Heart
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Castle in the Desert
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Dr. Renault's Secret
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Footlight Serenade
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Girl Trouble
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Iceland
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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It Happened in Flatbush
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Just off Broadway
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Life Begins at 8:30
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Little Tokyo, USA
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Lone Star Ranger
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Manila Calling
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Moontide
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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My Gal Sal
Production Designer |
1942 | |||
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Orchestra Wives
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Quiet Please, Murder
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Rings on Her Fingers
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Roxie Hart
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Son of Fury
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Song of the Islands
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Springtime in the Rockies
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Tales of Manhattan
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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That Other Woman
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Black Swan
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Magnificent Dope
Production Designer |
1942 | |||
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Man in the Trunk
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Pied Piper
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Undying Monster
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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This Above All
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Thru Different Eyes
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Thunder Birds
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Time to Kill
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Whispering Ghosts
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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A Very Young Lady
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Blood and Sand
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Charley's Aunt
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Charlie Chan in Rio
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Dead Men Tell
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Great Guns
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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How Green Was My Valley
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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I Wake Up Screaming
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Man Hunt
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Moon over Miami
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Remember the Day
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Sun Valley Serenade
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Swamp Water
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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That Night in Rio
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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The Great American Broadcast
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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The Last of the Duanes
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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The Perfect Snob
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Tobacco Road
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Weekend in Havana
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Western Union
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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A Girl From Avenue "A"
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Chad Hanna
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Down Argentine Way
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Four Sons
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Girl in 313
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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He Married His Wife
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Hudson's Bay
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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I Was an Adventuress
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Johnny Apollo
Art Director |
1940 | |||
|
Lillian Russell
Production Designer |
1940 | |||
|
Little Old New York
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Maryland
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Michael Shayne, Private Detective
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Murder over New York
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Pier 13
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Shooting High
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Street of Memories
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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The Grapes of Wrath
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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The Great Profile
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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The Man I Married
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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The Mark of Zorro
Art Director |
1940 | |||
|
The Return of Frank James
Art Director |
1940 | |||
|
Tin Pan Alley
Art Director |
1940 | |||
|
Yesterday's Heroes
Art Director |
1940 | |||
|
Young People
Art Director |
1940 | |||
|
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Charlie Chan in Reno
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Day-Time Wife
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Drums Along the Mohawk
Art Director |
1939 | |||
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Frontier Marshal
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Hollywood Cavalcade
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Art Director |
1939 | |||
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Pack up Your Troubles
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Rose of Washington Square
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Second Fiddle
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Swanee River
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
The Gorilla
Art Director |
1939 | |||
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Wife, Husband and Friend
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Young Mr. Lincoln
Art Director |
1939 | |||
|
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Art Director |
1938 | |||
|
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Art Director |
1938 | |||
|
The Cowboy and the Lady
Art Director |
1938 | |||
|
The Goldwyn Follies
Art Director |
1938 | |||
|
Dead End
Art Director |
1937 | |||
|
Stella Dallas
Art Director |
1937 | |||
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The Hurricane
Art Director |
1937 | |||
|
Woman Chases Man
Art Director |
1937 | |||
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Beloved Enemy
Art Director |
1936 | |||
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Come and Get It
Art Director |
1936 | |||
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Dodsworth
Art Director |
1936 | |||
|
One Rainy Afternoon
Art Director |
1936 | |||
|
Strike Me Pink
Art Director |
1936 | |||
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The Gay Desperado
Art Director |
1936 | |||
|
These Three
Art Director |
1936 | |||
|
Splendor
Art Director |
1935 | |||
|
The Dark Angel
Art Director |
1935 | |||
|
The Wedding Night
Art Director |
1935 | |||
|
Born to Be Bad
Art Director |
1934 | |||
|
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Art Director |
1934 | |||
|
Gallant Lady
Editor |
1934 | |||
|
Kid Millions
Art Director |
1934 | |||
|
Looking for Trouble
Art Director |
1934 | |||
|
Nana
Art Director |
1934 | |||
|
The Affairs of Cellini
Production Designer |
1934 | |||
|
We Live Again
Art Director |
1934 | |||
|
Advice to the Lovelorn
Art Director |
1933 | |||
|
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Art Director |
1933 | |||
|
Roman Scandals
Art Director |
1933 | |||
|
The Bowery
Art Director |
1933 | |||
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The Masquerader
Art Director |
1933 | |||
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Rain
Art Director |
1932 | |||
|
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Art Director |
1932 | |||
|
The Kid From Spain
Art Director |
1932 | |||
|
Arrowsmith
Production Designer, Set Designer |
1931 | |||
|
Indiscreet
Art Director |
1931 | |||
|
One Heavenly Night
Art Director |
1931 | |||
|
Palmy Days
Art Director |
1931 | |||
|
Street Scene
Art Director |
1931 | |||
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The Front Page
Art Director |
1931 | |||
|
The Unholy Garden
Art Director |
1931 | |||
|
The Devil to Pay
Art Director |
1930 | |||
|
Whoopee!
Art Director |
1930 | |||
|
Hollywood Revue of 1929
Art Director |
1929 | |||
|
The Wedding March
Art Director |
1928 | |||
|
Wickedness Preferred
Art Director |
1928 | |||
|
Adam and Evil
Production Designer |
1927 | |||
|
After Midnight
Art Director, Set Designer |
1927 | |||
|
Mr. Wu
Set Designer |
1927 | |||
|
Tea for Three
Set Designer |
1927 | |||
|
The Enemy
Set Designer |
1927 | |||
|
The Unknown
Art Director |
1927 | |||
|
Bardelys the Magnificent
Production Designer |
1926 | |||
|
Beverly of Graustark
Production Designer |
1926 | |||
|
Bright Lights
Set Designer |
1925 | |||
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His Secretary
Art Director |
1925 | |||
|
The Merry Widow
Costume Designer, Production Designer |
1925 | |||
|
Greed
Production Designer |
1924 | |||
|
The Merry-Go-Round
Costume Designer, Production Designer, Set Designer |
1923 | |||
|
Foolish Wives
Art Director |
1922 |





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