* 17.4 1914, Kokomo, Indiana - † 3.10. 1998

Opleiding: USC, Los Angeles

Een gewaardeerd ontwerper, begon zijn filmcarrière bij ‘20th Century-Fox en won

Oscars voor zijn films THE ROBE (1953) en  and THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959).

Ook werkte Davis veel voor de TV.

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Nominatie voor Art director

1957: FUNNY FACE —

1968: THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN

En vele nominaties als Art/Set regisseur voor vele films Zoals:

Zwart/wit 1950: ALL ABOUT EVE —    

Kleur 1951: DAVID AND BATHSHEBA —    

Kleur 1953: THE ROBE —    

Kleur 1955: LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING —    

Zwart/wit 1959: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK —    

Kleur 1960: CIMARRON —    

Kleur 1962: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

Kleur 1962: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM

Zwart/wit 1962: PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT —    

Kleur 1963: HOW THE WEST WAS WON —    

Zwart/wit 1963: TWILIGHT OF HONOR —    

Kleur 1964: THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN —    

Zwart/wit 1964: THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY —    

Zwart/wit 1965: A PATCH OF BLUE —    

Zwart/wit 1966: MISTER BUDDWING —    

Filmografie

As artdesigner

1947   Daisy Kenyon       

1947   The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1948   That Wonderful Urge    

1949   The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend    

1949   Dancing in the Dark       

1949   House of Strangers      

1950   All About Eve  

1950   Mister 880  

1950   No Way Out

1950   A Ticket to Tomahawk   

As art director

1951   David and Bathsheba

As Art designer

1951   People Will Talk  

1951   DESPERATE SIEGE/Rawhide         

as co-art director

1952   5 Fingers    

As set designer

1952   What Price Glory 

as art design

1953   The Robe     

1953   Tonight We Sing   

1954   Demetrius and the Gladiators

1954   The Egyptian        

1955   Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing      

1955   The Seven Year Itch       

1955   Violent Saturday 

1957   Funny Face 

1958   In Love and War   

1959   The Diary of Anne Frank

1959   The Gazebo 

1959   This Earth Is Mine

1960   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

as co-art director

1960   Bells Are Ringing  

1960   Cimarron      

1960   Home from the Hill          

1960   Key Witness           

1960   Please Don't Eat the Daisies 

1960   The Time Machine   

1961   Ada     

As art director

1961   Atlantis, the Lost Continent          

1961   Bachelor in Paradise     

As Artdesigner

1961   The Honeymoon Machine  

1961   A Thunder of Drums

1962   All Fall Down        

As co-art director

1962   JUMBO/Billy Rose's Jumbo         

As artdesigner

1962   The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse         

1962   The Horizontal Lieutenant       

1962   Two Weeks in Another Town     

1962   Mutiny on the Bounty     

1962   Period of Adjustment      

1962   Ride the High Country     

1962   Sweet Bird of Youth       

1962   Two Weeks in Another Town     

1962   The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm        

1963   The Courtship of Eddie's Father         

1963   The Hook      

1963   It Happened at the World's Fair         

1963   The Prize      

1963   Sunday in New York         

1963   Twilight of Honor           

1964   36 Hours       

1964   7 Faces of Dr. Lao  

1964   Advance to the Rear        

1964   The Americanization of Emily   

1964   A Global Affair      

1964   Kissin' Cousins       

1964   Mail Order Bride     

1964   The Outrage           

1964   Quick Before It Melts      

1964   The Unsinkable Molly Brown     

1964   Viva Las Vegas       

1964   Your Cheatin' Heart         

1965   The Cincinnati Kid  

1965   Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion  

1965   Girl Happy    

1965   Harum Scarum        

1965   A Patch of Blue      

1965   The Rounders         

1965   The Sandpiper        

1965   Signpost to Murder         

1965   Zebra in the Kitchen        

1966   The Glass Bottom Boat   

1966   Made in Paris         

As art director

1966   Mister Buddwing  

As artdesigner

1966   The Money Trap      

1966   Spinout        

1966   The Spy with My Face      

1966   To Trap a Spy         

1967   Don't Make Waves  

1967   52 MILES TO MIDNIGHT/Hot Rods to Hell       

1967   Point Blank

1967   Welcome to Hard Times 

1968   Ice Station Zebra

1968   The Power  

As art director

1968   The Shoes of the Fisherman

As artdesigner        

1968   THE HEROIN GANG/Sol Madrid    

As art director

1968   Stay Away, Joe    

As art director

1969   The Extraordinary Seaman      

As artdesigner

1969   The Gypsy Moths  

1969   Heaven with a Gun

1969   Marlowe     

1969   The Phantom Tollbooth 

1969   The Trouble with Girls  

1970   Brewster McCloud         

1970   Dirty Dingus Magee        

As art director

1970   The Strawberry Statement     

1970   ...tick... tick... tick...  

1970   The Traveling Executioner      

As artdesigner

1970   Zigzag        

1971   Pretty Maids All in a Row       

As art director

1971   Wild Rovers

As co-art director

1972   LOOKIN' GOOD/Corky