Carl Francis Biddiscombe (June 22, 1924 – November 4, 2000) was a Canadian-American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category

Best Art Direction The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted fro ...

for the films '' Gaily, Gaily'' and '' Tora! Tora! Tora!''. Biddiscombe was buried in Pacific View Memorial Park, alongside his wife.

Selected filmography

Biddiscombe was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: * '' Gaily, Gaily'' (1969; co-nominated with Robert F. Boyle,

George B. Chan George B. Chan (November 5, 1921 – March 27, 1998) was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film '' Gaily, Gaily''. Selected filmography * '' Gaily, Gaily'' (1969; co-n ...

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Edward G. Boyle Edward George Boyle (born Edward Joshua Boyle, 30 January 1899 – 17 February 1977) was an American set decorator and director active between 1925 and 1970. Career Boyle's career began in the early 1930s, when he started working on the firs ...

) * '' Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970; co-nominated with Jack Martin Smith, Yoshirō Muraki, Richard Day,

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Walter M. Scott Walter M. Scott (November 7, 1906, Cleveland, Ohio – February 2, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was a set decorator who worked on films such as ''The Sound of Music'' and ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''. Scott enjoyed a spectacular car ...

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Norman Rockett Norman Rockett (August 8, 1911 – April 5, 1996) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Selected filmography * ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (1965) * ''Planet of the A ...

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* * * 1924 births 2000 deaths People from Saint John, New Brunswick Canadian emigrants to the United States American set decorators Canadian set decorators Burials at Pacific View Memorial Park {{Canada-film-bio-stub