Urie McCleary

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Urie McCleary (born July 10, 1905 in Arkansas , † December 12, 1980 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director and production designer who won two Academy Awards for best production design and was nominated four times in this category.

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McCleary joined The Last of Mrs. Cheyney in 1929 as Associate Art Director and has been involved in the creation of nearly seventy films over the course of his forty-plus years in the Hollywood film industry .

At the Academy Awards in 1942 , he and Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis received his first Oscar for the best production design for the color film Flowers in Dust (1941).

This was followed by four more nominations in this category, namely in 1946 with C. Gibbons, EB Willis and Mildred Griffiths for Little Girl, Big Heart (1944), in 1954 with C. Gibbons, EB Willis and Jack D. Moore for the color film The Heir apparent ( 1953), 1958 with William A. Horning , EB Willis and Hugh Hunt for Das Land des Regenbaums (1957) and 1966 with George W. Davis , Henry Grace and Charles S. Thompson for the black and white film Dreaming Lips (1965).

At the 1971 Academy Awards , he and Gil Parrondo , Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thévenet received his second Oscar for best production design in the war film Patton - Rebel in Uniform (1970).

McCleary was also involved in the production designs for the films Tarzan and His Son (1939), A Bride for Seven Brothers (1954), The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Nebraska (1965). In the course of his career he has worked with well-known film directors such as Burt Kennedy , Richard Thorpe , Stanley Donen , Mervyn LeRoy , Richard Brooks , Clarence Brown , George Sidney , Edward Dmytryk , Guy Green and Franklin J. Schaffner .

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SURNAME McCleary, Urie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1980
Place of death Los Angeles , California