David S. Garber (1898–1984) was an American

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.22 He designed the sets for more than sixty film productions between 1926 and 1957, a large number of them westerns.

Selected filmography

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Fighting with Buffalo Bill ''Fighting With Buffalo Bill'' is a 1926 American silent Western film serial directed by Ray Taylor for Universal Pictures. The film is now considered to be lost. Plot Cast * Wallace MacDonald as Ned Wheeler * Elsa Benham as Doris Carberry ...

'' (1926) * '' The Denver Dude'' (1927) * ''

Desert Dust ''Desert Dust'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by William Wyler and starring Ted Wells, Lotus Thompson and Bruce Gordon. The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber. Cast * Ted Wells as Frank Fortune * ...

'' (1927) * '' The Fighting Three'' (1927) * ''

Hard Fists ''Hard Fists'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by William Wyler and starring Art Acord, Louise Lorraine and Gilbert Holmes. The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber. Plot Cast * Art Acord as Art Alvo ...

'' (1927) * '' Thunder Riders'' (1928) * ''

The Mounted Stranger ''The Mounted Stranger'' is a 1930 American pre-Code Western (genre), Western film. It was a remake of ''The Ridin' Kid from Powder River'' (1924), which was an adaptation of Henry Herbert Knibbs's novel of the same name. Plot Pete Ainslee l ...

'' (1930) * ''

70,000 Witnesses ''70,000 Witnesses'' is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Ralph Murphy, written by Garrett Fort, Robert N. Lee, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson, and starring Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, J ...

'' (1932) * '' I Love That Man'' (1933) * '' Private Scandal'' (1934) * '' Gift of Gab'' (1934) * '' Here Comes the Groom'' (1934) * '' Nevada'' (1935) * ''

Rocky Mountain Mystery ''Rocky Mountain Mystery'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by Charles Barton and starring Randolph Scott, Mrs. Leslie Carter, and Ann Sheridan. Based on an unpublished novel ''Golden Dreams'' by Zane Grey, the film is about a mining e ...

'' (1935) * '' Desert Gold'' (1936) * '' Drift Fence'' (1936) * '' The Halliday Brand'' (1957)

References

Bibliography

* Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. ''The Films of Fay Wray''. McFarland, 2015.

External links

* 1898 births 1984 deaths American art directors People from Indiana {{US-film-director-1890s-stub