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Harry Horner
Holitz, Bohemia
Harry Horner (July 24, 1910 - December 5, 1994) was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holitz, which now belongs to the…
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Harry Horner (July 24, 1910 - December 5, 1994) was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holitz, which now belongs to the Czech Republic, to German speaking parents in Bohemia. He began his career working with Max Reinhardt in Vienna. When Reinhardt moved to the United States in the early 1930s, Horner went along with him. During World War II, he served as production designer and set designer for the U.S. Army Air Forces show Winged Victory. He won an Oscar in 1949 for his work on William Wyler's The Heiress and another in 1961 for Robert Rossen's drama The Hustler. One of his first notable successes was George Cukor's A Double Life (1947) and he soon found himself up on the Oscar podium in 1949 for his work on William Wyler's The Heiress. He worked with Cukor again in 1950 on Born Yesterday and then tried his hand at directing on several TV series, including Gunsmoke. He was nominated for a third time in 1969 for Sydney Pollack's 30s drama They Shoot Horses, Don't They . Horner directed a few films beginning with Red Planet Mars and Beware, My Lovely both in 1952. He retired after completing the Neil Diamond remake of The Jazz Singer in 1980. He died of pneumonia in 1994 in Pacific Palisades, California, aged 84. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Horner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1980
The Jazz Singer
Movie Production Design
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1979
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Movie Production Design
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1978
Moment by Moment
Movie Production Design
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1978
The Driver
Movie Production Design
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1977
Audrey Rose
Movie Production Design
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1976
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Movie Production Design
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1975
The Black Bird
Movie Production Design
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1972
Up the Sandbox
Movie Production Design
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1971
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Movie Production Design
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1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Movie Production Design
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1961
The Hustler
Movie Production Design
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1959
R.C.M.P.
TV show Director
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1959
The Wonderful Country
Movie Production Design
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1959
World of Giants
TV show Director
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1958
Separate Tables
Movie Production Design
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1958
Lux Playhouse
TV show Director
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1958
The Rough Riders
TV show Director
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1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV show Director
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1956
The Wild Party
Movie Director
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1956
Man from Del Rio
Movie Director
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Director
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1955
A Life in the Balance
Movie Director
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1955
TV Reader's Digest
TV show Director
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1954
New Faces
Movie Director
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1953
Vicki
Movie Director
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1952
Androcles and the Lion
Movie Production Design
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1952
Cavalcade of America
TV show Director
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1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show Director
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1952
Beware, My Lovely
Movie Director
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1952
Red Planet Mars
Movie Director
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show Director
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1951
He Ran All the Way
Movie Production Design
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1950
Born Yesterday
Movie Production Design
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1950
Outrage
Movie Production Design
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1950
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Movie Production Design
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1949
The Heiress
Movie Production Design
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1947
A Double Life
Movie Production Design
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1943
Stage Door Canteen
Movie Production Design
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1943
Tarzan Triumphs
Movie Production Designer
