Robert Clatworthy

William Robert Clatworthy (born December 31, 1911 in Illinois , † March 2, 1992 in La Cañada Flintridge , California ) was an American film architect .

Life

Clatworthy began his film career at the age of 21 after completing his education. In 1943 he was promoted to chief architect at Universal Studios and worked on his early films for directors Charles Lamont and Robert Siodmak, among others . In the 1950s he worked on several westerns before creating the buildings for Douglas Sirks Written In The Wind in 1956 . The following year he worked for Orson Welles on The Signs of Evil . His career was given a boost by working with Alfred Hitchcock . Clatworthy received his first Oscar nomination in 1961 for his thriller Psycho . In the 1960s he shot several times with Doris Day , Ein Pajama für Zwei (1961), Schick mir keine Blumen (1964) and A Touch of Mink (1962), for which he received his second Oscar nomination. He finally accepted the Oscar in 1966 for his work on Stanley Kramer's The Ship of Fools (1965), he received further nominations for Damned, Sweet World (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Clatworthy rarely worked for television, the exceptions included nine episodes of the western series Thousand Miles of Dust in 1959 and seven episodes of Disneyland between 1963 and 1964. He worked less in the 1970s and retired after his last film Another Man, another woman returned from the film business in 1977.

personal data
SURNAME	Clatworthy, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Clatworthy, William Robert (full name); Clatworthy, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American production designer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Illinois
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1992
Place of death	La Cañada Flintridge , California