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Robert Usher

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Occupation
  
Art director

Years active
  
1933-1950

Name
  
Robert Usher


Born
  
February 27, 1901 (
1901-02-27
)
Missouri

Died
  
July 23, 1990(1990-07-23) (aged 89) Tehama County, California

Robert Usher (February 27, 1901 – July 23, 1990) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Usher spent the last twenty years of his life as a religious brother at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California, where he designed some of the monastery's buildings and the cemetery gardens.

Selected filmography

Usher was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:

  • Arise, My Love (1940)
  • Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
  • No Time for Love (1943)
  • References

    Robert Usher Wikipedia