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Alexander Golitzen (1908–2005)

Art Director | Production Designer | Producer

Alexander Golitzen was a legendary art director, a field in which most worker's names remain relatively unknown. His prolific work in hundreds of films, predominantly at Universal, made his name familiar to many film-goers, at least among those who read credits. Possibly only Cedric Gibbons, at MGM... See full bio »

Born:

Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Galitzine
in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died:

(age 97) in San Diego, California, USA
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1976 Face of Darkness
 
1973 That Man Bolt
 
1973 Breezy
 
1973 Showdown
 
1972 Joe Kidd
 
1972 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
 
1972 Slaughterhouse-Five
 
1971 Play Misty for Me
 
1971 Company of Killers (TV movie)
 
1971 Shoot Out
 
1971 Red Sky at Morning
 
1971 The Beguiled
 
1971 How to Frame a Figg
 
1971 One More Train to Rob
 
1971 Raid on Rommel
 
1970 I Love My Wife
 
1970 Pufnstuf
 
1970 Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
 
1970 Colossus: The Forbin Project
 
1970 Airport
 
1970 Story of a Woman
 
1969 Change of Habit
 
1969 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
 
1969 The Love God?
 
1969 The Lost Man
 
1969 Eye of the Cat
 
1969 Winning
 
1969 Death of a Gunfighter
 
1969 Angel in My Pocket
 
1969 Sweet Charity
 
1968 Hellfighters
 
1968 Coogan's Bluff
 
1968 House of Cards
 
1968 Don't Just Stand There
 
1968 The Hell with Heroes
 
1968 The Pink Jungle
 
1968 In Enemy Country
 
1968 Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?
 
1968 The Shakiest Gun in the West
 
1968 What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
 
1968 Journey to Shiloh
 
1968 A Lovely Way to Die
 
1968 Madigan
 
1968 A Man Called Gannon
 
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg
 
1968 P.J.
 
1968 Nobody's Perfect
 
1967 Rosie!
 
1967 Counterpoint
 
1967 Games
 
1967 The Perils of Pauline
 
1967 The King's Pirate
 
1967 Banning
 
1967 Rough Night in Jericho
 
1967 The Reluctant Astronaut
 
1967 The Young Warriors
 
1967 Ride to Hangman's Tree
 
1967 Thoroughly Modern Millie
 
1967 Tobruk
 
1967 Gunfight in Abilene
 
1967 The Ballad of Josie
 
1966 Gambit
 
1966 Let's Kill Uncle, Before Uncle Kills Us
 
1966 Texas Across the River
 
1966 The Appaloosa
 
1966 Beau Geste
 
1966 The Plainsman
 
1966 The Pad and How to Use It
 
1966 Munster, Go Home!
 
1966 And Now Miguel
 
1966 The 38th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
 
1966 Gunpoint
 
1966 Madame X
 
1966 The Rare Breed
 
1966 Incident at Phantom Hill
 
1966 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
 
1965 Moment to Moment
 
1965 Blindfold
 
1965 The War Lord
 
1965 That Funny Feeling
 
1965 Love and Kisses
 
1965 A Very Special Favor
 
1965 I Saw What You Did
 
1965 McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force
 
1965 The Art of Love
 
1965 Fluffy
 
1965 Shenandoah
 
1965 Mirage
 
1965 Wild Seed
 
1965 The Sword of Ali Baba
 
1965 Bus Riley's Back in Town
 
1965 Strange Bedfellows
 
1964 The Night Walker
 
1964 Taggart
 
1964 Father Goose
 
1964 Kitten with a Whip
 
1964 Send Me No Flowers
 
1964 The Lively Set
 
1964 I'd Rather Be Rich
 
1964 Island of the Blue Dolphins
 
1964 McHale's Navy
 
1964 Bullet for a Badman
 
1964 Bedtime Story
 
1964 The Brass Bottle
 
1964 Wild and Wonderful
 
1964 Man's Favorite Sport?
 
1963 Captain Newman, M.D.
 
1963 For Love or Money
 
1963 The Thrill of It All
 
1963 A Gathering of Eagles
 
1963 Tammy and the Doctor
 
1963 The List of Adrian Messenger
 
1963 Showdown
 
1963 The Ugly American
 
1962 40 Pounds of Trouble (as Alex Golitzen)
 
1962 To Kill a Mockingbird (uncredited)
 
1962 If a Man Answers
 
1962 The Spiral Road
 
1962 That Touch of Mink
 
1962 Lonely Are the Brave
 
1962 Six Black Horses
 
1962 Cape Fear
 
1961 The Outsider
 
1961 Lover Come Back
 
1961 Flower Drum Song
 
1961 Back Street
 
1961 Tammy Tell Me True
 
1961 The Last Sunset
 
1961 Posse from Hell
 
1961 The Great Impostor
 
1960 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
 
1960 Midnight Lace
 
1960 Seven Ways from Sundown
 
1960 College Confidential
 
1960 The Leech Woman
 
1959 Operation Petticoat
 
1959 Twilight Zone (TV series)
– Where Is Everybody? (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
 
1959 This Earth Is Mine
 
1958-1959 Peter Gunn (TV series)
– The Portrait (1959)
– The Coffin (1959)
– Vendetta (1959)
– Kill from Nowhere (1959)
– Bullet for a Badge (1959)
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1958-1959 Steve Canyon (TV series)
– Operation Firebee (1959)
– Project U.F.O. (1959)
– Room 313 (1959)
– Strike Force (1959)
– Operation Intercept (1959)
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1959 Curse of the Undead
 
1959 The Wild and the Innocent
 
1959 Imitation of Life
 
1959 Rawhide (TV series)
– Incident of the Golden Calf (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
– Incident of the Town in Terror (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
– Incident West of Lano (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
– Incident of the Power and the Plow (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
– Incident on the Edge of Madness (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
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1959 A Stranger in My Arms
 
1959 No Name on the Bullet
 
1959 Never Steal Anything Small
 
1959 Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (TV series)
– The Bride Possessed (1959) (as Alex Golitzen)
 
1958 Monster on the Campus
 
1958 The Restless Years
 
1958 The Perfect Furlough
 
1958 Money, Women and Guns
 
1958 Step Down to Terror
 
1958 Ride a Crooked Trail
 
1958 Once Upon a Horse...
 
1958 Kathy O'
 
1958 Raw Wind in Eden
 
1958 The Saga of Hemp Brown
 
1958 Wild Heritage
 
1958 Voice in the Mirror
 
1958 Twilight for the Gods
 
1958 A Time to Love and a Time to Die
 
1958 The Thing That Couldn't Die
 
1958 This Happy Feeling
 
1958 The Last of the Fast Guns
 
1958 Live Fast, Die Young
 
1958 Girls on the Loose
 
1958 Touch of Evil
 
1958 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
– The Dungeon (1958) (as Alex Golitzen)
 
1958 Summer Love
 
1958 Damn Citizen
 
1958 Flood Tide
 
1958 The Lady Takes a Flyer
 
1958 Day of the Badman
 
1958 The Female Animal
 
1957 The Monolith Monsters
 
1957 Slim Carter
 
1957 The Tarnished Angels
 
1957 My Man Godfrey
 
1957 Appointment with a Shadow
 
1957 Joe Dakota
 
1957/I Man in the Shadow
 
1957 Interlude
 
1957 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
 
1957 The Land Unknown
 
1957 Man of a Thousand Faces
 
1957 Night Passage
 
1957 The Midnight Story
 
1957 Quantez
 
1957 The Deadly Mantis
 
1957 Joe Butterfly
 
1957 The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
 
1957 The Girl in the Kremlin
 
1957 Man Afraid
 
1957 The Night Runner
 
1957 Kelly and Me
 
1957 The Tattered Dress
 
1957 Mister Cory
 
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man
 
1957 Battle Hymn
 
1957 Gun for a Coward
 
1957 Four Girls in Town
 
1957 Istanbul
 
1956 Rock, Pretty Baby
 
1956 The Mole People
 
1956 Written on the Wind
 
1956 Everything But the Truth
 
1956 The Unguarded Moment
 
1956 Showdown at Abilene
 
1956 Pillars of the Sky
 
1956 Walk the Proud Land
 
1956 Away All Boats
 
1956 Congo Crossing
 
1956 Behind the High Wall
 
1956 Francis in the Haunted House
 
1956 Outside the Law
 
1956 The Toy Tiger
 
1956 Star in the Dust
 
1956 A Day of Fury
 
1956 The Kettles in the Ozarks
 
1956 The Creature Walks Among Us
 
1956 Red Sundown
 
1956 Raw Edge
 
1956 Backlash
 
1956 The Price of Fear
 
1956 Never Say Goodbye
 
1956 World in My Corner
 
1956 The Benny Goodman Story
 
1956 There's Always Tomorrow
 
1955 The Square Jungle
 
1955 The Spoilers
 
1955 The Rawhide Years
 
1955 Tarantula
 
1955 Running Wild
 
1955 Lady Godiva of Coventry
 
1955 The Second Greatest Sex
 
1955 Kiss of Fire
 
1955 All That Heaven Allows
 
1955 Female on the Beach
 
1955 To Hell and Back
 
1955 Francis in the Navy
 
1955 The Private War of Major Benson
 
1955 One Desire
 
1955 Foxfire
 
1955 Ain't Misbehavin'
 
1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
 
1955 The Shrike
 
1955 The Purple Mask
 
1955 This Island Earth
 
1955 The Looters
 
1955 Cult of the Cobra
 
1955 Chief Crazy Horse
 
1955 The Man from Bitter Ridge
 
1955 Smoke Signal
 
1955 Revenge of the Creature
 
1955 Man Without a Star
 
1955 Captain Lightfoot
 
1955 So This Is Paris
 
1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
 
1955 Six Bridges to Cross
 
1954 Destry
 
1954 Sign of the Pagan
 
1954 The Yellow Mountain
 
1954 Bengal Brigade
 
1954 Four Guns to the Border
 
1954 Ricochet Romance
 
1954 Naked Alibi
 
1954 The Black Shield of Falworth
 
1954 Dawn at Socorro
 
1954 Francis Joins the WACS
 
1954 The Far Country
 
1954 Fireman Save My Child
 
1954 Playgirl
 
1954 The Glenn Miller Story
 
1953 War Arrow
 
1953 The Veils of Bagdad
 
1953 The Man from the Alamo
 
1953 All I Desire
 
1953 The Great Sioux Uprising
 
1953 Take Me to Town
 
1953 The Lone Hand
 
1953 Thunder Bay
 
1953 Column South
 
1953 Law and Order
 
1953 Desert Legion
 
1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
 
1953 Seminole
 
1953 Gunsmoke
 
1953 City Beneath the Sea
 
1953 Girls in the Night
 
1953 The Mississippi Gambler
 
1952 Against All Flags
 
1952 It Grows on Trees
 
1952 The Duel at Silver Creek
 
1952 The World in His Arms
 
1952 The Treasure of Lost Canyon
 
1951 The Golden Horde
 
1951 You Never Can Tell
 
1951 Smuggler's Island
 
1951 Up Front
 
1951 Double Crossbones
 
1950 Frenchie
 
1950 Western Courage (short)
 
1950 Spy Hunt
 
1949 Bagdad
 
1949 Sword in the Desert
 
1949 The Lady Gambles
 
1948 The Saxon Charm
 
1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman
 
1947 The Lost Moment
 
1947 Something in the Wind
 
1947 Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
 
1946 Magnificent Doll
 
1946 Night in Paradise
 
1945 Scarlet Street
 
1945 Salome Where She Danced
 
1944 Hi, Beautiful
 
1944 The Climax
 
1944 San Diego I Love You
 
1944 Cobra Woman
 
1944 Ladies Courageous
 
1943 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders
 
1943 Phantom of the Opera
 
1943 We've Never Been Licked
 
1943 To the People of the United States (documentary short)
 
1942 Arabian Nights
 
1942 Eagle Squadron
 
1941 Sundown
 
1941 That Uncertain Feeling
 
1940 Foreign Correspondent
 
1940 The House Across the Bay
 
1939 Slightly Honorable
 
1939 Eternally Yours
 
1935 The Call of the Wild
 
Show ShowProduction Designer (4 titles)
1974 Earthquake
 
1960 Spartacus
 
1948 You Gotta Stay Happy
 
1948 Tap Roots
 
Show ShowProducer (3 titles)
1946 Canyon Passage (associate producer)
 
1946 Night in Paradise (associate producer)
 
1945 Salome Where She Danced (associate producer)
 
Show ShowArt Department (3 titles)
1938 Trade Winds (associate art director)
 
1937 The Hurricane (assistant art direction - as Alex Golitzen)
 
1935 Folies Bergère de Paris (art department - uncredited)
 
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