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Jim Bissell

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Jim Bissell
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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015)
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Jim Bissell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BFA in Theater. After working in New York and L.A. on commercials and low budget features, he won an Emmy Award in 1980 for his work on Palmerstown, U.S.A. followed by a BAFTA nomination for production design on Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He was the original chair for the Art Directors Guild Awards as well as a former Vice President of the Guild. He has taught at AFI, USC, UCLA extension and the NC School of the Arts and is a member of the DGA, ADG, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
BornAugust 6, 1951
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George Clooney and Jim Bissell
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Jim Bissell

Known for

300 (2006)
300
7.6
  • Production Designer(as James D. Bissell)
  • 2006
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
7.4
  • Production Designer
  • 2005
Henry Thomas in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
7.9
  • Production Designer(as James D. Bissell)
  • 1982
Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Brad Bird, Mike Dopud, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor, Vitaly Kravchenko, Pavel Kríz, Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ivan Shvedoff, Mihály Szabados, Ilia Volok, Tom Wilkinson, Andreas Wisniewski, Miraj Grbic, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Caspe, Paul Lazenby, Stephen Lobo, Paula Patton, Roger Narayan, Léa Seydoux, Ali Olomi, and Jessica Belkin in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
7.4
  • Production Designer
  • 2011

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  • Always (1989)
    Always
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Kevin Costner in Amazing Stories (1985)
    Amazing Stories
  • Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Mare Winningham in St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
    St. Elmo's Fire
    • (as James Bissell)

Production Designer

  • 1906
    • (as James D. Bissell)
    • In Development
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    • Pre-production
  • Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Radcliffe, Oscar Nuñez, Channing Tatum, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Lost City (2022)
    The Lost City
  • George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall in The Midnight Sky (2020)
    The Midnight Sky
  • Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
    Velvet Buzzsaw
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper (2018)
    Skyscraper
  • Julianne Moore, Matt Damon, and Oscar Isaac in Suburbicon (2017)
    Suburbicon
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, and Emily Alyn Lind in Hidden (2015)
    Hidden
  • Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • George Clooney, Bill Murray, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Jean Dujardin in The Monuments Men (2014)
    The Monuments Men
  • Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012)
    Jack Reacher
  • Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Brad Bird, Mike Dopud, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor, Vitaly Kravchenko, Pavel Kríz, Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ivan Shvedoff, Mihály Szabados, Ilia Volok, Tom Wilkinson, Andreas Wisniewski, Miraj Grbic, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Caspe, Paul Lazenby, Stephen Lobo, Paula Patton, Roger Narayan, Léa Seydoux, Ali Olomi, and Jessica Belkin in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
  • George Clooney, Tim Griffin, John Krasinski, and Matt Bushell in Leatherheads (2008)
    Leatherheads
  • Freddie Highmore in The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
    The Spiderwick Chronicles
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • 300 (2006)
    300
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
    Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Kelly Stables in The Ring Two (2005)
    The Ring Two

Art Director

  • Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter (1984)
    The Last Starfighter
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Now We're Cookin'
    • (as James Bissell)
  • Michael J. Fox, Bill Duke, and Beeson Carroll in Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980)
    Palmerstown, U.S.A.
  • Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981)
    Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Valentine (1979)
    Valentine
    • (as James D. Bissell)
  • Jameson Parker in Anatomy of a Seduction (1979)
    Anatomy of a Seduction
    • (as James Bissell)
  • Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
    Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
  • Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers (1979)
    Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers
    • (as James Bissell)
  • Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield in King (1978)
    King

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Trailer 2:21
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

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    • August 6, 1951
    • Charleston, South Carolina, USA
    • Martha Wynne Snetsinger1994 - present
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    • 3 Articles

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    The game "bisselling" is named after him.

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