Casey Roberts
Edwin Casey Roberts ( born May 9, 1901 in Illinois; † May 29, 1949 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actor, art director and production designer, who was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
Roberts, who has worked as a young actor in the 1917 silent film Jilted in Jail, started in the mid 1920s, his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood. After Lady of the Camellias (1926 ) he worked until shortly before his death at the scenic features of some thirty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1943 he was nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Production Design: On the one with Ted Smith for the color film heroes of the air (1942 ), one directed by Michael Curtiz war film starring James Cagney, Dennis Morgan and Brenda Marshall, on the other together with Max Parker and Mark -Lee Kirk on the black and white film Our sweet home ( George Washington Slept Here, 1942), which arose under the direction of William Keighley film comedy with Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan and Charles Coburn in the lead roles. His third Oscar nomination in this category got Roberts in 1949, together with Richard Day and Joseph Kish for the color film Joan of Arc (1948 ), in which Ingrid Bergman, directed by Victor Fleming on the side of Francis L. Sullivan and J. Carrol Naish title role of Joan of Arc plays.