Walter M. Scott Biography (1906-1989)

Born November 7, 1906, in Cleveland, OH; died of a respiratory ailment, February 2, 1989, in Los Angeles, CA; children: one son, one daughter.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Birth Details: November 7, 1906; Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Death Details: February 2, 1989; Los Angeles, California, United States

Famous Works

Credits; FILM WORK; ALL AS SET DESIGNER,UNLESS INDICATED
(With Thomas Little) The Moon Is Down and art director (with Little, James Basevi, and Leland Fuller), Heaven Can Wait, both Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943.
(both with Little) The Lodger and The Purple Heart, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944.
(with Little and Joseph C. Wright) Nob Hill and (with Little) Where Do WeGo from Here?, both Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945.
(all with Little) Forever Amber, The Homestretch, and Daisy Kenyon, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947.
(all with Little) Apartment for Peggy, Call Northside 777 (also known asCalling Northside 777), A Letter to Three Wives, That Lady in Ermine, and That Wonderful Urge, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948.
(all with Little) House of Strangers, I Was a Male War Bride (also knownas You Can't Sleep Here), and Whirlpool, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.
(All with Little) Under My Skin, All About Eve, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
(with Little) People Will Talk, (with Little and Wright) On the Riviera,and (with Little) The Thirteenth Letter, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951.
My Cousin Rachel, (with Little) Deadline--U.S.A. (also known as Deadline), (with Little) Les Miserables, (with Little) Monkey Business, and (with Little) With a Song in My Heart, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952.
King of the Khyber Rifles and (with Paul S. Fox) The Robe, both TwentiethCentury-Fox, 1953.
(with Fox) Desiree, (with Fox) The Egyptian, (with Stuart Reiss) Hell andHigh Water, (with Reiss) Broken Lance, and (with Chester Bayhi) River of NoReturn, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954.
(With Fox) Daddy Long Legs, (with Fox) Good Morning, Miss Dove, (with Frank Wade) The Left Hand of God, (with Jack Stubbs) Love Is a Many- SplendoredThing, (with Reiss) House of Bamboo, (with Fox) The Rains of Ranchipur, (withReiss) The Seven Year Itch, (with Reiss) Soldier of Fortune, (with Bayhi) The Tall Men, (with Bayhi) Untamed, and (with Fox) The View from Pompey's Head(also known as Secret Interlude), all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955.
(with Fox) The King and I, (with Reiss) The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit,(with Reiss) Teenage Rebel, and (with Fay Babcock) 23 Paces to Baker Street,all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956.
Forty Guns (also known as Woman with a Whip), (with Fox) An Affair to Remember, (with Fox) Desk Set (also known as His Other Woman), (with Reiss) KissThem for Me, (with Bayhi) Kronos, (with Reiss) Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, (with Bertram Granger) Peyton Place, (with Fox and Stubbs) The Sun Also Rises, (withEli Benneche) The Three Faces of Eve, and (with Reiss) The True Story of Jesse James (also known as The James Brothers), all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957.

The Long, Hot Summer, (with Fox) A Certain Smile, (with Granger) Gang War, (with Babcock) In Love and War, (with Maurice Mulcahy) Showdown at Boot Hill, (with Reiss) The Young Lions, (with Benneche) 10 North Frederick, and artdirector (with Wheeler, Fox, and John DeCuir) South Pacific, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958.
(with Joseph Kish) Journey to the Center of Earth, (with Fox) The Man WhoUnderstood Women, (with Reiss) A Private's Affair, (with Kish) Return of theFly, (with Reiss) The Diary of Anne Frank, (with Benneche) Say One for Me, (with Gustav W. Bernsten) The Story on Page One, (with Reiss) Warlock, and (with Reiss) Woman Obsessed, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959.
(With Fox) Can-Can, (with Bernsten) Flaming Star, (with Fox) From the Terrace, (with Kish and John Sturtevant) The Lost World, (with Reiss) North to Alaska, (with Reiss) Seven Thieves, and (with Kish) Wild River, all TwentiethCentury-Fox, 1960.
(with Robert Priestly) The Comancheros, (with Reiss) The Fiercest Heart,(with Fernandino Ruffo) Francis of Assisi, (with Reiss) Misty, (with Lou Hafley) Pirates of Tortuga, (with Fred Maclean) Return to Peyton Place, (with Maclean) The Right Approach, (with Maclean) Sanctuary, (with Reiss) The Second Time Around, (with Fox) Snow White and the Three Stooges (also known as Snow White and the Three Clowns), (with Fox) Tender Is the Night, (with Sturtevant)Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and (with Reiss) Wild in the Country, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961.
(with Priestly) Adventures of a Young Man (also known as Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man), (with Reiss) Five Weeks in a Balloon, (with Sturtevant) Madison Avenue, (with Reiss) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, (with Lou Hafley)State Fair, and (with Lou Hafley) Swingin' Along (also known as Double Trouble), all Twentieth Century- Fox, 1962.
(with Fox and Ray Moyer) Cleopatra, (with Fox) Move Over, Darling, (withReiss and Norman Rockett) The Stripper (also known as Woman of Summer), and (with Reiss) Take Her, She's Mine, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963.
(with Reiss) Fate Is the Hunter, (with Keogh Gleason) Goodbye Charlie, (with Reiss) John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, (with Reiss) The Pleasure Seekers, (with Lou Hafley) Rio Conchos, (with Fox) Shock Treatment, and (with Reiss)What a Way to Go, all Twentieth Century- Fox, 1964.
(With Steven Potter) Dear Brigette, (with Jerry Wunderlich) Do Not Disturb, (with Wunderlich) Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituriand The Saboteur), (with Lucien Hafley) The Reward, and (with Ruby Levitt) The Sound of Music, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965.
(with Lucien Hafley) I Deal in Danger, (with Raphael Bretton) Our Man Flint, (with Reiss) Fantastic Voyage (also known as Microscipia and Strange Journey), (with Sturtevant and William Kiernan) The Sand Pebbles, (with Reiss) Stagecoach, and (with Reiss) Way ... Way Out, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966.
(with Reiss) Dr. Dolittle, (with Sturtevant) The Flim-Flam Man (also known as One Born Every Minute), (with Bretton) A Guide for the Married Man, (with Bretton) Hombre, (with James W. Payne) In Like Flint, (with Potter) The St.Valentine's Day Massacre, (with Warren Welch) Tony Rome, and (with Bretton)Valley of the Dolls, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967.
(with Wunderlich) The Detective, (with Wunderlich) Lady in Cement, (withRockett) Planet of the Apes, (with Bretton) The Secret Life of an American Wife, (with Howard Bristol) Star! (also known as Those Were the Happy Times), (with Reiss) The Sweet Ride, and (with Reiss and Bretton) The Boston Strangler, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968.
(with Bayhi) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, (with Reiss) Che!, (withBretton and George James Hopkins) Hello, Dolly!, (with Bretton) Justine, and(with Bayhi) The Undefeated, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969.
(With Sven Wickman) Beneath the Planet of the Apes, (with Robert De Vestel) Cover Me Babe, (with Bretton) The Great White Hope, (with Reiss) M*A*S*H,(with Kiernan) Move, (with Wunderlich) The Only Game in Town, (with Rockett and Carl Biddiscombe) Tora! Tora! Tora!, and (with Wunderlich) Tribes, all Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970.
(with Reiss) Escape from Planet of the Apes, (with Audrey A. Blasdel) TheMarriage of a Young Stockbroker, (with Bretton) The Mephisto Waltz, and (with Bretton) The Seven Minutes, all Twentieth Century- Fox, 1971.
The Culpepper Cattle Company, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972.
(with Ralph Sylos) Hex, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973.
Credits; PILOTS
They Call It Murder, NBC, 1971.
Credits; MOVIES
Tribes, ABC, 1970.
The Challenge, ABC, 1970.

Further Reference

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

Variety, February 8-14, 1989.

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