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Howard Bristol is a Set Decoration and Set Dressing Artist American born on 14 august 1902 at Iowa (USA)

Howard Bristol

Howard Bristol
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 august 1902 at Iowa (USA)
Death 11 february 1971 (at 68 years)

Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.

Best films

Gone with the Wind (1940)
(Set Decoration)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
(Set Decoration)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
(Set Decoration)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
(Set Decoration)
Dear Heart (1965)
(Set Decoration)
Wonder Man (1945)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Daniel Mandell
Daniel Mandell
(15 films)
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
(12 films)
Russell Metty
Russell Metty
(9 films)
Perry Ferguson
Perry Ferguson
(10 films)
Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Howard Bristol (50 films)

Display filmography as list

Art

Star!
Star! (1968)
, 2h56
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig, Robert Reed, Bruce Forsyth
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.219583.219583.219583.219583.21958
The film opens in 1940, with Lawrence in a screening room watching a documentary film chronicling her life, then flashes back to Clapham in 1915, when she leaves home to join her vaudevillian father in a dilapidated Brixton music hall. Eventually she joins the chorus in André Charlot's West End revue. She reunites with close childhood friend Noël Coward who provides witty commentary on Gertie's actions.
Thoroughly Modern Millie, 2h18
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.4489253.4489253.4489253.4489253.448925
In New York City in 1922, flapper Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews) is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him – a "thoroughly modern" goal. Millie befriends the sweet yet naive Miss Dorothy Brown (Mary Tyler Moore) as the latter checks into the Priscilla Hotel. When house mother Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) learns Miss Dorothy is an orphan, she remarks, "Sad to be all alone in the world." Unbeknown to Millie, the woman is selling her tenants into white slavery, and those without family or close friends are her primary targets.
Rosie!
Rosie! (1967)
, 1h38
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino, Vanessa Brown
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.340053.340053.340053.340053.34005
Rosie Lord (Russell) is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred (Meadows) and Edith (Brown), spends her money generously. When she announces to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a run-down part of Los Angeles, because it's the location where her late husband proposed to her and it's now threatened to be turned into a parking lot, her daughters decide that they have had enough. Edith and her husband Cabot (Nielsen) complain that they are only granted $100.000 a year, and work together with cold-hearted and recently divorced Mildred to discourage Rosie from making the buy. They are unable to convince her and her legal advisor Oliver (Aherne) to let them take care of their money, and thus decide to try to declare her incompetent, thereby hoping to put her in an insane asylum. Edith and Cabot's young daughter Daphne (Dee) is appalled to overhear the scheme, and vows to help her grandmother.
Madame X
Madame X (1966)
, 1h40
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Melodrama
Actors Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalbán, Constance Bennett, Cristina Montt, John van Dreelen
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.4449453.4449453.4449453.4449453.444945
A lower class woman, Holly Parker (Turner), marries into the rich Anderson family. Her husband's mother (Constance Bennett) looks down on her and keeps a watchful eye on her activities. Due to her husband's frequent and long trips abroad, Holly forms a relationship with a well-known playboy (Ricardo Montalbán). When her lover accidentally dies, and only her mother-in-law knows she is innocent, the latter blackmails her into disappearing into the night during a planned boat trip, leaving her husband (John Forsythe) and young son (Teddy Quinn) thinking she has died.
Three on a Couch, 1h49
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Janet Leigh, Jerry Lewis, James Best, Kathleen Freeman, Mary Ann Mobley, Leslie Parrish
Roles Set Decoration
Rating57% 2.899382.899382.899382.899382.89938
Christopher Pride wants to marry his girlfriend, Dr. Elizabeth Acord. However, she is too involved with her patients and she doesn't think that she would be able to leave them to live in Paris for a year. Pride decides to solve her patients' problems after finding out that most of them are merely despondent after having relationships go bad. Therefore, he decides to "date" these women, without Acord's knowledge, and give them back their self-esteem so that they will be less dependent on their doctor.
The Art of Love, 1h39
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.0475253.0475253.0475253.0475253.047525
Struggling and starving in Paris as an aspiring artist, Paul Sloane has had enough. He wants to return home to America to resume his relationship with his rich fiancee, Laurie.
The Art of Love, 1h39
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.0475253.0475253.0475253.0475253.047525
Désespéré par son manque de succès, Casey Barnett, jeune peintre vivant à Paris, fait croire à son suicide. Curieusement, ses toiles s'arrachent…
Dear Heart
Dear Heart (1965)
, 1h53
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Nichols, Charles Drake, Mary Wickes
Roles Set Decoration
Rating71% 3.5940253.5940253.5940253.5940253.594025
Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) is a middle-aged, single postmaster who is attending a postmasters' convention in New York City. Honest and somewhat tactless, she has many friends but pines for love. Harry Mork (Glenn Ford) is a womanizing advertising executive who is staying in the same hotel while he finds an apartment. Mork is engaged to Phyllis (Angela Lansbury), a woman from Altoona, Pennsylvania. Mork has been told that Phyllis has a son, whom he assumes from a photo is about 13 years old. But the photo is old and her son, Patrick (Michael Anderson, Jr.), is actually 18 years old and a bohemian. Mork is surprised to discover Patrick's true age. He is also embarrassed by Patrick's casual attitude toward women and nudity, and suspicious of Patrick's seemingly platonic relationship with fellow student Émile Zola Bernkrand (Joanna Crawford).
Captain Newman, M.D., 2h6
Directed by Robert D. Webb, David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert, Marc Cavell
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.446693.446693.446693.446693.44669
In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman (Peck) is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 at the Colfax Army Air Field military hospital, located in the Arizona desert. As he explains to a visiting VIP who wanders in: "We're short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients." He will use unconventional tactics to treat his patients and to recruit much needed personnel, as when he hijacks a new and very reluctant orderly, Corporal Jackson Leibowitz (Curtis), a wheeler-dealer from New Jersey. Leibowitz promptly has the entire ward participating in a sing-along of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
The Thrill of It All, 1h48
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, Reginald Owen, Zasu Pitts
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.449243.449243.449243.449243.44924
The story centers around suburban housewife Beverly Boyer (Doris Day) and her husband, a successful obstetrician and devoted family man, Gerald (James Garner). Beverly is offered the opportunity to star in a television commercial advertising soap. After a shaky start, she gets a contract for nearly $80,000 per year to appear in weekly TV commercials. Soon the TV studio places greater and greater demands on the unlikely TV star. Gerald resents the fact that the appearances are taking up an increasing amount of her time, and becomes jealous of the level of attention that her new-found stardom has brought her. Their relationship slowly deteriorates until she decides to return as a housewife.
Tammy and the Doctor
Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Beulah Bondi, Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.9499252.9499252.9499252.9499252.949925
Mrs. Call requires surgery in Los Angeles and is accompanied there by her young companion Tammy, who lands a job with the hospital staff. Tammy is attracted to handsome Dr. Mark Cheswick, whose superior, Dr. Bentley, and head nurse Rachel Coleman aren't sure that romance is a good idea.
The Cabinet of Caligari, 1h45
Directed by Roger Kay
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin, Estelle Winwood, Constance Ford
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.9160052.9160052.9160052.9160052.916005
Motorist Jane Lindstrom (Glynis Johns) has a tire blowout and seeks assistance at an estate owned by Caligari (Dan O'Herlihy), a very polite man with a German accent. After spending the night she finds that Caligari will not let her leave; he proceeds to ask some personal questions and shows her (presumably sexual) pictures that offend her.
If a Man Answers, 1h42
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund, Cesar Romero, Stefanie Powers
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.38873.38873.38873.38873.3887
Chantal Stacy (Sandra Dee) is the daughter of Germaine Stacy (Micheline Presle), a former French showgirl, and John Stacy (John Lund), a conservative, Boston antiques dealer, who met in Paris. Chantal was the product of their “soufflé-and-beans romance". Her father worries about her French part getting pregnant, before her Boston part gets married; but, a Boston foghorn sounds every time she gets close to a man.
Flower Drum Song, 2h12
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki, Juanita Hall, Jack Soo, Benson Fong
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.4455753.4455753.4455753.4455753.445575
A young woman named Mei Li arrives from China as an illegal immigrant with her father in San Francisco, California to enter into an arranged marriage with the owner of a night club, Sammy Fong (inspired by the actual Forbidden City nightclub). Her intended is already involved with his leading showgirl, Linda Low, and does his best to dissuade Mei Li from marrying him, sending her to live in the house of Master Wang, where he presents her as prospect for Master Wang's son, Wang Ta. Dissolving the marriage contract is harder than either of them imagine. Master Wang is persuaded by his sister-in-law, Madame Liang, to allow Mei Li to fall in love naturally with Master Wang's son, Wang Ta. But Wang Ta is dazzled by the charms of Linda, who 'enjoys being a girl', and succeeds in landing a date with her, during which she convinces him to give her his fraternity pin (it symbolizes that they're "going steady"). Linda wishes to use Wang Ta to get a real commitment from Sammy Fong, who gets wind of her plan when Linda attends a party in honor of Wang Ta's and Madame Liang's graduation from university and citizenship classes, respectively. At the party, Linda has another club employee pretend to be her brother, and grant his permission for Linda to marry Wang Ta. Mei Li, hearing this, becomes discouraged, while Ta and his father argue over his marriage plans. Ta argues that he is old enough to make his own decisions, but the father says that he will be the one to let Ta know when he is old enough.
Ocean's Eleven, 2h2
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Patrice Wymore, Joey Bishop
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.2491853.2491853.2491853.2491853.249185
A gang of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans is recruited by Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Lawford) to rob five different Las Vegas casinos (Sahara, Riviera, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Sands and the Flamingo) on a single night.