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Roland Anderson

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Occupation
  
Art director

Years active
  
1932-1969


Spouse(s)
  
Dorthee (?-?)

Name
  
Roland Anderson

Born
  
November 18, 1903 (
1903-11-18
)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died
  
October 29, 1989(1989-10-29) (aged 85) Los Angeles, California, USA

Roland Anderson - Hot Ash Felt (Live From Vibes Studios)


Roland Anderson (November 18, 1903 – October 29, 1989) was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's first Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B. DeMille - he worked on "Cleopatra" (1934), "The Buccaneer" (1938) and "North West Mounted Police" (1940) - as well as such other classics as "Holiday Inn" (1942), "Road to Utopia" (1946), "Son of Paleface" (1952) and "Will Penny" (1967).

Those 15 nominations were for:

  • "A Farewell to Arms" (1933)
  • "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935)
  • "Souls at Sea" (1937)
  • "North West Mounted Police" (1940)
  • "Take a Letter Darling" (1942)
  • "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942)
  • "Love Letters" (1945)
  • "Carrie" (1952)
  • "The Country Girl" (1954)
  • "Red Garters" (1954)
  • "It Started in Naples" (1960)
  • "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)
  • "The Pigeon That Took Rome" (1962)
  • "Love with the Proper Stranger" (1963)
  • "Come Blow Your Horn" (1963)
  • References

    Roland Anderson Wikipedia