Richard "Dick" Irvine
(April 5, 1910 – March 30, 1976) was an American
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
. He is best known for his
Academy Award
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nomination in the category
Best Art Direction for the 1941
black and white film
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Media
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''
Sundown''.
Over his long career, he worked as an art director in 31 films between 1939 and 1953.
In the early 1950s, Walt Disney asked Irvine to help construct Disneyland. He moved from 20th Century Fox to the Walt Disney Studio in 1952 and became a senior figure at
Walt Disney Imagineering
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(WDI). Until his retirement in 1973, he headed design and planning for all Disneyland attractions including the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. Irvine became executive vice president and chief operations officer at WDI in 1967.
Personal life
Irvine was born in
Salt Lake City
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,
Utah
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, on April 5, 1910. Following his graduation in
Stanford University
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and the
University of Southern California
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, he attended the
Chouinard Art Institute
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.
Irvine died on March 30, 1976, in
Los Angeles, California
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, after suffering an illness that prevented him from visiting the complete
Walt Disney World Resort
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, which opened in 1971. In his honor, one of the original Walt Disney World riverboats was named after him (See
Richard F. Irvine Riverboat). However, it was renamed the ''Liberty Belle'' in 1996, following which one of the Magic Kingdom ferries was named in his honor.
Selected filmography
* ''
Sundown'' (1941)
* ''
The Three Caballeros
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'' (1944)
* ''
Miracle on 34th Street
''Miracle on 34th Street'' (initially released as ''The Big Heart'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davi ...
'' (1947)
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American art directors
Artists from Salt Lake City
1910 births
1976 deaths
Disney imagineers
Irvine, Richard F.