Malcolm Brown (art director)
Malcolm F. Brown ( born August 10, 1903 in New Jersey; † August 29, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer who won the Academy Award for Best Production Design and a second time for an Oscar in this category was nominated.
Life
Brown began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1938 with the film Dr. Kildare - His first case and worked until 1966 at the scenic and facilities for over sixty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1956, he was with Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the black and white film and expectant tomorrow ' I cry ( I'll Cry Tomorrow, 1955) nominated, in which director Daniel Mann with Susan Hayward, Richard Conte and Eddie Albert in the lead roles, the life history of Broadway stars Lillian Roth filmed.
In 1957 he won along with Gibbons, Willis and F. Keogh Gleason Oscar for Best Production Design in the black and white film for Hell is in me ( Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1956), the filmed by Robert Wise life story of middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano with Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane and.