Occupation art director Years active 1937-1977 | Name Jack Smith Role Film Art Director | |
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Born January 2, 1911 ( 1911-01-02 ) Died November 7, 1993, Santa Barbara, California, United States Education University of Southern California Awards Academy Award for Best Production Design Nominations Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White Art directed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Similar People John DeCuir, Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B Willis, Lyle R Wheeler, Richard Day | ||
Jack Martin Smith (January 2, 1911 - November 7, 1993) was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.
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MGM
He made his debut in 1937 and two years later found himself working as a production designer on The Wizard of Oz. Smith spent most of his working life at MGM where he worked on such films as Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and the 1951 version of Show Boat. His first Oscar nomination came in 1949 for his work on Vincente Minnelli's adaptation of Madame Bovary.
20th Century Fox
Later, he moved to 20th Century Fox, where he was one of the art directors on the 1956 film version of Carousel. Other big productions to bear his name there include Peyton Place (1957), Return to Peyton Place (1961), Cleopatra (1963, his first Oscar win), Von Ryan's Express (1965), the science fiction epic Fantastic Voyage (1966, which earned him his second Oscar), Planet of the Apes (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and MASH (1970). His third Oscar was for Hello, Dolly! in 1969.
Television
Smith also worked frequently in television on such series as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space and Batman.
Disney
His last film before retirement was the Disney part-animated film Pete's Dragon in 1977.