Daniel B. Cathcart
Daniel B. Cathcart ( born December 8, 1906 in Boise, Idaho; † January 23, 1959 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who was nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
Cathcart began his career in 1936 as an art director at Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer ( MGM) and stood there until his death under contract. His first collaboration was as deputy art director for the staged by Richard Thorpe comedy film Dangerous Number ( 1937) with Robert Young, Ann Sothern and Reginald Owen. In the following years he worked until his death at the scenic amenities of around sixty films, including many Western.
He was first nominated by Cedric Gibbons, Jacques Mersereau and Edwin B. Willis for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a color film, and indeed at the Academy Awards in 1944 for the resulting directed by George Sidney comedy film Thousands Cheer (1943 ) with Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly and Mary Astor in the lead roles.
At the Academy Awards in 1945 he was nominated as an associate set decorator along with Cedric Gibbons, Richard Pefferle and Edwin B. Willis for an Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film Kismet (1944 ) by William Dieterle. In the fantasy adventure film Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich and James Craig played the lead roles.