Harry Horner

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 US Army Air Forces show Winged Victory He won an Oscar in 1949 for his work on William Wylers The Heiress and another in 1961 for Robert Rossens drama The Hustler One of his first notable successes was George Cukors A Double Life 1947 and he soon found himself up on the Oscar podium in 1949 for his work on William Wylers 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 Pollacks 30s drama They Shoot Horses Dont 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 CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia