Michael Seymour (production designer)

Michael Edmund Seymour (* 1932 in Southampton , Hampshire - † December 9, 2018 ) was a British production designer and art director .

Life

Seymour began his career on the film staff in 1965 as an uncredited assistant to the art director on the set of Richard Lester's comedy The Certain Kniff . The following year he worked in the same role in Michelangelo Antonioni's cult film Blow Up . With the beginning of the 1970s he worked as a set designer, among other things on the horror film - satire Theater des Horens . In 1980 he was nominated for Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien, along with Leslie Dilley , Roger Christian and Ian Whittaker for an Oscar in the category of Best Production Design , but the award went to dance film that year Behind the spotlight .

In the 1980s and 1990s he was active in a number of other feature film productions, including Beverly Hills Cop III . His last engagement was with the direct-to-video action film Out For A Kill: Tong Tatoos - The Gate to Hell .

1980 : Oscar nomination in the category Best Production Design for Alien - The Eerie Being from an Alien World

personal data
SURNAME	Seymour, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seymour, Michael Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British production designer and art director
DATE OF BIRTH	1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Southampton , Hampshire , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 2018