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Roland Anderson

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Roland Anderson
Born(1903-11-18)November 18, 1903
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
DiedOctober 29, 1989(1989-10-29) (aged 85)
Los Angeles, California, United States
OccupationArt director
Years active1932–1969
SpouseDorthee (?-?)

Roland Anderson (November 18, 1903 – October 29, 1989) was an American movie art director. He received 15 Academy Award nominations but never won an Oscar. Anderson's first Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, A Farewell to Arms. A frequent collaborator with Cecil B. DeMille, he worked on Cleopatra (1934), The Buccaneer (1938) and North West Mounted Police (1940), as well as such other classics as Holiday Inn (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Son of Paleface (1952) and Will Penny (1967).

Those 15 nominations were for:

References

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  1. ^ "The 6th Academy Awards (1934) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  2. ^ "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
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