For a decade produced exceptional work on several notable films in which art direction was central: George Stevens's "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), Franklin Schaffner's sci-fi classic, "Planet of the Apes" (1968), and the Irwin Allen/John Guillerman disaster epic, "The Towering Inferno" (1974).
Milestones
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1951 Served in US Navy during the Korean War
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1955 Began career as apprentice draftsman at 20th Century Fox
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1964 Began association with producer Irwin Allen as production designer on the ABC TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
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1965 Earned first of three career Oscar nominations for his work on "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
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1968 Designed "Planet of the Apes"; worked on two sequels
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1970 First TV-movie as production designer, "Along Came a Spider" (ABC)
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1972 Nominated for second Oscar for "The Poseidon Adventure", produced by Irwin Allen
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1974 Served as production designer on the Allen-produced "The Towering Inferno"; received third Academy Award nomination
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1986 Debut as 2nd unit director (also production designer), "Flight of the Navigator"
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1988 Designed and supervised construction of residential and New York backlot streets at Disney World Florida Studio (later Disney-MGM Studios)
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1994 Was production designer of the CBS series "Christy"
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1998 Served as production designer on the sports biopic "Without Limits"
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Was production designer for such ABC TV series as "The Mod Squad" and "Room 222"