Urie McCleary

Urie McCleary (* July 10, 1905 in Arkansas, † December 12, 1980 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer who won the Academy Award for Best Production Design twice and four times nominated in this category had.

Biography

McCleary began in 1929 with The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ' as an associate art director and was involved in the course of his more than forty years in the film industry in Hollywood in the creation of nearly seventy films.

At the Academy Awards in 1942, he received along with Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis for the color film Blossoms in the Dust (1941 ) his first Oscar for Best Production Design.

This was followed by four other nominees in this category, namely 1946 with C. Gibbons, EB Willis and Mildred Griffiths for Little Girl, Big Heart (1944 ), 1954 with C. Gibbons, EB Willis and Jack D. Moore for the color film The Dauphin (1953 ), 1958 with William A. Horning, EB Willis and Hugh Hunt for The land of rain tree (1957 ) and in 1966 with George W. Davis, Henry Grace and Charles S. Thompson dreaming for the lips black and white film (1965).

At the Academy Awards in 1971, he shared with Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos and Pierre -Louis Thévenet his second Oscar for Best Production Design in the war film Patton - Rebell in Uniform ( 1970).

McCleary was also involved in the scene images of the films Tarzan Finds a Son ( 1939), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 ) and Nebraska ( 1965). Throughout his career he collaborated with famous film directors such as Burt Kennedy, Richard Thorpe, Stanley Donen, Mervyn LeRoy, Richard Brooks, Clarence Brown, George Sidney, Edward Dmytryk, Guy Green and Franklin J. Schaffner.