Edward G. Boyle

Edward G. Boyle

The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle 1899 - 1977) really kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such interesting credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic "Gone with the Wind" (1939), the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Chaplin's fictional country of Tomania in "The Great Dictator" (1940), the gritty boxing world in Robert Rossen's "Body and Soul" (1947) and Mark Robson's "Champion" (1949), an elegant Bournemouth seaside hotel in "Separate Tables" (1958), island life at the turn of the century in George Roy Hill's "Hawaii" (1966) and the sophisticated demi-monde of the multi-millionaire lifestyles in Norman Jewison's "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968).

Winner of the Academy Award in 1960 for Billy Wilder's "The Apartment", Boyle was nominated six other times: for "The Son of Monte Cristo" in 1940, "Some Like It Hot" in 1959, "The Children's Hour" in 1961, "Seven Days in May" in 1964, "The Fortune Cookie" in 1966 and "Gaily Gaily" in 1969.

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