Occupation Art director Spouse Iris Meredith Role Film Art Director | Name Jack Otterson Years active 1934-1953 | |
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Born August 25, 1905 ( 1905-08-25 ) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Died December 22, 1991, Los Angeles, California, United States Nominations Academy Award for Best Production Design Art directed Son of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man Similar People Alexander Golitzen, Vera West, Frank Skinner, Joe Pasternak, Hans J Salter | ||
John Edward (Jack) Otterson (August 25, 1905 – December 22, 1991) was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 and 1953.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Yale, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record with writer Geoffrey T. Hellman, writer and film critic Dwight MacDonald and Hollywood photographer Jerome Zerbe. He died in Los Angeles, California.
Selected filmography
Otterson was nominated for eight Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:
References
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