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George Davis (art director) was born on 17 April, 1914 in Kokomo, Indiana, United States, is an art director. Discover George Davis (art director)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?
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84 years old |
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Aries |
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17 April, 1914 |
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17 April |
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Kokomo, Indiana, United States |
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(1998-10-03) |
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George Davis (art director) Height, Weight & Measurements
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George Davis (art director) Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is George Davis (art director) worth at the age of 84 years old? George Davis (art director)’s income source is mostly from being a successful art director. He is from United States. We have estimated
George Davis (art director)'s net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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He was married to Barbara Louise Davis (née Davies) who died in 1990 at the age of 73. They had 2 children (Karen Louise Hoy, born 1940 and George Christopher Davis, born 1943). He lived in the same home in Santa Monica, California, from 1948 to his death in 1998.
His 17th and last nomination was for The Shoes of the Fisherman in 1969.
Davis was also the initial project manager of Tokyo Disneyland, designed the General Motors exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair and the primary designer of Park City, Utah.
At the Academy Awards in 1963, he was nominated for three films - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Mutiny on the Bounty and Period of Adjustment.
He won his second Academy Award in 1960 for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White for The Diary of Anne Frank which was made during his time at Fox.
In 1959 he joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became the studio's supervising art director following the death of William A. Horning, with Hans Peters as his assistant.
Other notable films include Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955), Funny Face (1957), Cimarron (1960), How the West Was Won (1963), Twilight of Honor (1963), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), The Americanization of Emily (1964), A Patch of Blue (1965), Mr. Buddwing (1966).
He won his first Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color in 1954 for his work on The Robe. He was also heavily involved in some of the other big religious productions of the 1950s, such as David and Bathsheba (1951), Demetrius and the Gladiators and The Egyptian (both 1954).
Davis won Oscars for his work on The Robe (1953) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He was nominated an additional 15 times.
He received the first of 17 Academy Award nominations in 1951 for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White for All About Eve, also directed by Mankiewicz.
Davis began his career as a sketch artist at Warner Brothers Studio. He joined the U.S. Marines during World War II and was discharged as a colonel. He then began work at 20th Century Fox with his first film being Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked including House of Strangers (1949), No Way Out (1950) and 5 Fingers (1952).
George Davis (April 17, 1914 – October 3, 1998) was an American art director and was the supervising art director at MGM from 1959 to 1970. He won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for his work on The Robe in 1954 and for The Diary of Anne Frank in 1960.
