Mentor Huebner (July 19, 1917 - March 19, 2001) was a leading Hollywood production illustrator who did

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s, production art and creative concepts for more than 250 films, including ''

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'' (1976), ''

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'' (1982) and Francis Ford Coppola's ''

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'' (1992). His early work was uncredited on ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (1971), ''The Time Machine'' (1960), '' Ben-Hur'' (1959), ''

North by Northwest ''North by Northwest'' is a 1959 American spy thriller film, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to ...

'' (1959), ''

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'' (1956), ''Quo Vadis'' (1951) and Strangers on a Train (1951). As a fine artist, Huebner painted landscapes,

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s, cityscapes and portraits, creating some 2000 paintings and exhibiting in 50 one-man shows. He also taught art as an instructor at

Chouinard Art Institute The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879–1969) in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 1961, Walt and Roy Disney guided the merger of the Chouinard Art In ...

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*Perine, Robert. ''Chouinard: An Art Vision Betrayed''. Los Angeles: Artra Publishing, 1985. 1917 births Painters from California 2001 deaths Landscape artists Cityscape artists American portrait painters 20th-century American painters American male painters American storyboard artists American landscape painters 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1910s-stub

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