William Glasgow
William Glasgow ( born April 26, 1906 in Yuma, Arizona, United States, † November 25, 1972 in Los Angeles ) was an American art director.
Life
Glasgow had been working since 1923 in various architectural offices in Los Angeles, first for the architect Paul Williams. His duties were primarily Villenbauten in Beverly Hills. In 1933 he moved to film and began as an illustrator for MGM.
1946 Glasgow was appointed chief architect. In this capacity, he designed in the 50s and early 60s, a number of entirely insignificant B- Pictures. With the beginning of his collaboration with the action film specialist Robert Aldrich began Glasgow's most fertile creative period. His decorations to Aldrich's masterful black-and- white horror thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Lullaby for a dead body bribed mainly thanks to Glasgow creation atmospheric shower walls, with which the former villas builder was able to put his experience from his time as an aspiring architect. For Lullaby for a dead body, he received an Oscar nomination