Harry Oliver (art director)
Harry Oliver (April 4 1888 — July 4 1973) was an American writer, artist, humorist, and Academy Award-nominated art director of films from the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Hastings, Minnesota
He is remembered for his Hollywood work as art director on the films Seventh Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928), for which he was nominated for the earliest Academy Awards, as well as set design or art direction on the films Ben Hur (1925), Sparrows (1926), Scarface (1932), Viva Villa! (1934), Mark of the Vampire (1935), and The Good Earth (1937).
He is also known for some building designs, especially the Witch House, the Van de Camp bakery windmill, and Old Fort Oliver. He is now possibly best known for his humorous writings about the American Southwest, and his publication (1946-1964) of the Desert Rat Scrap Book, an almost-quarterly broadsheet devoted to lore, lies, laughs and legends of the Southwest.
He died in 1973 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Source
- Stohler, Betty J. (1978) A KISS FOR THE DESERT From Harry Oliver, (self-published).
Bibliography
- Oliver, Harry (1938) DESERT ROUGH CUTS, Los Angeles - Ward Ritchie Press.
- Oliver, Harry (1952) THE OLD MIRAGE SALESMAN, (self-published).
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