- Richard Sylbert
Richard Sylbert (
April 16 ,1928 -March 23 ,2002 ) was anAcademy Award -winningproduction designer andart director , primarily forfeature films .Born in
Brooklyn, New York , Sylbert fought in theKorean War [ [http://www.vh1.com/movies/person/100470/bio.jhtml Richard Sylbert bio at VH1.com] ] and attended theTyler School of Art atTemple University inElkins Park, Pennsylvania [ [http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Sh-Sy/Sylbert-Richard.html Richard Sylbert at FilmReference.com] ] . He began his career in the early days oftelevision , designing productions of "Hamlet " (1953) and "Richard II" (1954) for the "Hallmark Hall of Fame ".Sylbert's first film credit was "Patterns" (1956), a big screen adaptation of an
Emmy Award -winning teleplay byRod Serling . He went on to design "Baby Doll ", "A Face in the Crowd ", "The Fugitive Kind ", "Murder, Inc.", "Splendor in the Grass ", "Walk on the Wild Side", "Long Day's Journey into Night", "The Manchurian Candidate", "The Pawnbroker ", "Lilith ", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "The Graduate ", "Rosemary's Baby", "Catch-22", "Carnal Knowledge ", "Chinatown", "Shampoo", "Reds", "Frances ", "The Cotton Club", "Tequila Sunrise", "Dick Tracy", "The Bonfire of the Vanities", "Carlito's Way ", "Mulholland Falls ", "My Best Friend's Wedding ", and "Trapped". He worked multiple times with directorsRoman Polanski ,Elia Kazan ,Mike Nichols , andWarren Beatty [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020328/ai_n12606695 Richard Sylbert obituary in "The Independent", March 28, 2002] ] .Robert Evans named Sylbert his successor when he relinquished his position as production chief at
Paramount Pictures in 1975. He oversaw "The Bad News Bears ", "Nashville", and "Days of Heaven " before being replaced in 1978 [ [http://www.vh1.com/movies/person/100470/bio.jhtml Richard Sylbert bio at VH1.com] ] .Sylbert was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Art Direction six times and won twice, for "Virginia Woolf" and "Dick Tracy". He won theBAFTA Award for Best Production Design for "Dick Tracy", and in 2000 was honored with theArt Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.Sylbert died of
cancer inWoodland Hills, California . He was the twin brother of Oscar-winning production designerPaul Sylbert and brother-in-law ofcostume design er Anthea Sylbert.References
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843129/ Richard Sylbert at the Internet Movie Database]
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