John B. Goodman (art director)

John Bartlett Goodman ( born August 15, 1901 in Denver, Colorado, † June 30, 1991 in Los Angeles County, California ) was an American art director and production designer, the Academy Award for Best Production Design received at the Academy Awards 1944.

Biography

Goodman began in 1934 with Where is the child of Madeleine F.? as production designer in the film industry in Hollywood and in 1968 was involved in the production of over 200 films until the end of his career.

At the Academy Awards in 1939 he was nominated for If I 'd King (also King of the Vagabonds, 1938) for the first time for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, together with Hans Dreier. After another nomination in 1943 with Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman and Edward R. Robinson for the black and white film The Spoilers ( The Spoilers, 1942), he was awarded in 1944 with Alexander Golitzen, RA Gausman and Ira Webb Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film Phantom of the Opera ( 1943).

Last Goodman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film, The Climax (1944 ) with Golitzen, Gausman and Webb at the Academy Awards 1945.

Other well-known films and television series with which he designed stage sets were It's a Gift (1934 ), ruler of the seas (1939 ), Shadow of a Doubt (1943 ), companies thunderclap (1943 ), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The regimental idiot ( 1957), one thousand miles dust ( 1959 to 1965 ), Bonanza (1966 to 1967) and Hang 'Em High (1968). He worked throughout his career with film directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Ted Post, Ray Enright, George Marshall, Norman Z. McLeod, Frank Lloyd, Arthur Lubin and George Waggner.