Harry Oliver
American film director (1888-1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Harry Oliver?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Harry Oliver (April 4, 1888 – July 4, 1973) was an American humorist, artist, and Academy Award nominated art director of films from the 1920s and 1930s. Besides his outstanding work in Hollywood, he is now best remembered for his humorous writings about the American Southwest, and his publication (1946–1964) of the Desert Rat Scrap Book, an irregular broadsheet devoted to the Southwest. He was born in Hastings, Minnesota and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Harry Oliver | |
---|---|
Born | April 4, 1888 (1888-04-04) Hastings, Minnesota, U.S. |
Died | July 4, 1973(1973-07-04) (aged 85) Woodland Hills, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Art director, artist, humorist |
Period | 1914–1965 |
Genre | early naturalistic cinema; early expressionist cinema; Western humor |
Website | |
phantomranch |
He is known for his Hollywood work as art director on the films 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928), for which he was nominated for the very first Academy Awards, as well as set design or art direction on the films Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Sparrows (1926), Scarface (1932), Viva Villa! (1934), Mark of the Vampire (1935), and The Good Earth (1937).