Ross Dowd

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Ross J. Dowd (born April 17, 1907 in Sweden , Monroe County , New York , † August 25, 1965 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American production designer .

Life

Dowd began his career on the film staff in 1941 as an uncredited assistant production designer on the set of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane . The following year he worked again with Welles, this time as a production designer on his agent film Hunted by agents . By 1960 he worked on a total of 50 feature films, including The Blue Dahlia , The Judgment Day and The Ship of the Condemned .

In 1957 he was nominated for the first Oscar in the category Best Production Design for the monumental film Around the World in 80 Days . However, together with James W. Sullivan and Ken Adam, he lost the film musical The King and Me . His second Oscar nomination came in 1961 for the romantic comedy Such an Affair , this time with J. McMillan Johnson and Kenneth A. Reid . That year Billy Wilders won The Apartment .

From the end of the 1950s he also worked for television, from 1960 he worked there exclusively. His engagements included the television series The Texaner , My Uncle from Mars and Oops Lucy! . Dowd died in August 1965 at the age of 58; his last work was the third episode of the science fiction series Spaceship Enterprise, first broadcast in 1966 .

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SURNAME Dowd, Ross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dowd, Ross J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American production designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Sweden , Monroe County , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1965
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States