biography
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| (1893–1960)
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| biography:
| Film art director, born in Dublin, Ireland, the husband of Dolores Del Rio. The most celebrated and influential art director in the history of Hollywood, he worked for Edison (1915–17), Goldwyn (1918–23), and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (from 1924). He designed the Academy Award statuette and received it himself 11 times, from The Merry Widow (1934) to Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). |
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