George W. Davis


Production Designer

About

Also Known As
George Davis
Birth Place
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Born
April 17, 1914
Died
October 03, 1998
Cause of Death
Kidney Failure

Biography

Celebrated art director who began his career at 20th Century-Fox and won Oscars for his work on "The Robe" (1953) and "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959). Davis has also worked extensively in TV....

Biography

Celebrated art director who began his career at 20th Century-Fox and won Oscars for his work on "The Robe" (1953) and "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959). Davis has also worked extensively in TV.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Out of the Fog (1919)
Brad Standish

Art Director (Feature Film)

Corky (1972)
Art Director
Wild Rovers (1971)
Art Director
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Art Director
Earth II (1971)
Art Director
...tick...tick...tick... (1970)
Art Director
The Moonshine War (1970)
Art Director
Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
Art Director
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
Art Director for live action seq
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Art Director
Zigzag (1970)
Art Director
Brewster McCloud (1970)
Art Director
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Art Director
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
Art Director
The Trouble with Girls (1969)
Art Director
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
Art Director
Marlowe (1969)
Art Director
The Maltese Bippy (1969)
Art Director
Heaven With a Gun (1969)
Art Director
Then Came Bronson (1969)
Art Director
Operation Heartbeat (1969)
Art Director
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Art Director
For Singles Only (1968)
Art Director
The Power (1968)
Art Director
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Art Director
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Art Director
The Split (1968)
Art Director
The Young Runaways (1968)
Art Director
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
Art Director
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Art Director
Speedway (1968)
Art Director
A Time To Sing (1968)
Art Director
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
Art Director
The Impossible Years (1968)
Art Director
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Art Director
Sol Madrid (1968)
Art Director
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
Art Director
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
Art Director
The Last Challenge (1967)
Art Director
The Venetian Affair (1967)
Art Director
The Love-Ins (1967)
Art Director
The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Art Director
Double Trouble (1967)
Art Director
Point Blank (1967)
Art Director
Don't Make Waves (1967)
Art Director
Hot Rods to Hell (1967)
Art Director
Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding (1967)
Art Director
Return of the Gunfighter (1967)
Art Director
Scorpio Letters (1967)
Art Director
The Karate Killers (1967)
Art Director
Hold On! (1966)
Art Director
Seven Women (1966)
Art Director
Made in Paris (1966)
Art Director
Mister Buddwing (1966)
Art Director
The Money Trap (1966)
Art Director
Penelope (1966)
Art Director
Spinout (1966)
Art Director
To Trap a Spy (1966)
Art Director
The Spy With My Face (1966)
Art Director
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Art Director
The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
Art Director
Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones (1966)
Art Director
One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
Art Director
One Spy Too Many (1966)
Art Direction
The Rounders (1965)
Art Director
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Art Director
Signpost to Murder (1965)
Art Director
Joy in the Morning (1965)
Art Director
Girl Happy (1965)
Art Director
Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
Art Director
The Singing Nun (1965)
Art Director
36 Hours (1965)
Art Director
Harum Scarum (1965)
Art Director
The Sandpiper (1965)
Art Director
Once a Thief (1965)
Art Director
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Art Director
Quick, Before It Melts (1965)
Art Director
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Art Director
When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)
Art Director
Mail Order Bride (1964)
Art Director
Advance to the Rear (1964)
Art Director
Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Art Director
Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
Art Director
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Art Director
Sunday in New York (1964)
Art Director
Looking for Love (1964)
Art Director
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Art Director
A Global Affair (1964)
Art Director
Honeymoon Hotel (1964)
Art Director
The Outrage (1964)
Art Director
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Art Director
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Art Director
Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
Art Director
Hootenanny Hoot (1963)
Art Director
Twilight of Honor (1963)
Art Director
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Art Director
A Ticklish Affair (1963)
Art Director
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Art Director
Drums of Africa (1963)
Art Director
How the West Was Won (1963)
Art Director
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Art Director
The Hook (1963)
Art Director
The Prize (1963)
Art Director
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Art Director
Period of Adjustment (1962)
Art Director
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Art Director
All Fall Down (1962)
Art Director
The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
Art Director
Boys' Night Out (1962)
Art Director
Ride the High Country (1962)
Art Director
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Art Director
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Art Director
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Art Director
Jumbo (1962)
Art Director
Two Loves (1961)
Art Director
A Thunder of Drums (1961)
Art Director
Go Naked in the World (1961)
Art Director
Ada (1961)
Art Director
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Art Director
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)
Art Director
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Art Director
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Art Director
All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Art Director
Key Witness (1960)
Art Director
Cimarron (1960)
Art Director
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Art Director
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Art Director
The Gazebo (1960)
Art Director
The Subterraneans (1960)
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Art Director
Platinum High School (1960)
Art Director
Where the Boys Are (1960)
Art Director
Home from the Hill (1960)
Art Director
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Art Director
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
Art Director
The Girl Most Likely (1958)
Art Director
Funny Face (1957)
Art Director
Escapade in Japan (1957)
Art Director
Violent Saturday (1955)
Art Director
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Art Director
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Art Director
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Art Director
The Egyptian (1954)
Art Director
Tonight We Sing (1953)
Art Director
The Robe (1953)
Art Director
5 Fingers (1952)
Art Director
What Price Glory (1952)
Art Director
Rawhide (1951)
Art Director
People Will Talk (1951)
Art Director
Dancing in the Dark (1950)
Art Director
Mister 880 (1950)
Art Director
All About Eve (1950)
Art Director
No Way Out (1950)
Art Director
A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
Art Director
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
Art Director
House of Strangers (1949)
Art Director

Art Director (Short)

Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1969)
Art Director

Life Events

Videos

Trailer

Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) -- (Original Trailer) Theatrical trailer for producer-director George Stevens’ adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket, based on the original diary, The Diary Of Anne Frank, 1959, starring Millie Perkins.
Brewster McCloud - (Original Trailer) A mysterious boy living in the Houston Astrodome dreams of building himself a pair of wings in Brewster McCloud (1970), directed by Robert Altman.
Phantom Tollbooth, The - (Re-issue Trailer) A bored boy enters a cartoon world where letters and numbers are at war in Chuck Jones' The Phantom Tollbooth (1970).
Zebra in the Kitchen - (Original Trailer) A young boy tries to liberate animals from the city zoo in Zebra in the Kitchen (1965).
Split, The - (Original Trailer) Jim Brown heads an all-star cast in The Split (1968), about a heist planned during an L.A. Rams game.
Get Yourself A College Girl - (Original Trailer) The Animals, The Dave Clark Five and Stan Getz are among the performers in the teen musical Get Yourself A College Girl (1964).
Fastest Guitar Alive, The - (Original Trailer) Roy Orbison has a guitar that shoots more than hot riffs in the western adventure The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967).
Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding! - (Original Trailer) Four suitors pursue a pregnant singer (Sandra Dee) to the maternity ward.
Pretty Maids All in a Row - (Original Trailer) A young man's first sexual explorations are threatened by a string of murders in Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) written by Gene Roddenberry, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson.
Atlantis, The Lost Continent - (Original Trailer) In mythological times, a sailor finds a land with advanced scientific powers in Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961).
Advance To The Rear - (Original Trailer) Civil War rejects are sent to the West, supposedly out of harm's way in Advance To The Rear (1964) starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The - (Original Trailer) A spirited widow (Gene Tierney) rents a haunted cottage and builds an emotional bond with the resident ghost (Rex Harrison) in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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