Edward G. Boyle

{{Short description|American set decorator (1899–1977)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Edward G. Boyle | birth_name = Edward Joshua Boyle | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|1|30}} | birth_place = [[Cobden, Ontario|Cobden]], Ontario, Canada<ref>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FM67-SBS "Canada, Ontario Births, 1869-1912"], database with images, FamilySearch, Edward Joshua Boyle, 30 Jan 1899; citing Birth, Ross, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,021,809. Retrieved March 2, 2021. {{Subscription required}}</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|1977|2|17|1899|1|30}} | death_place = [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], California, U.S. | spouse = [[Mary Eunice McCarthy]]<br>1922 until at least 1931<ref name="CCM">[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K889-SQY "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"], database with images, FamilySearch, Edward George Boyle and Mary Eunice McCarthy, 25 Jan 1922; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,274. Retrieved March 9, 2021. {{Subscription required}}</ref><ref name="The Oakland Tribune 1928">[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94102341/oakland-tribune/ "Bad Movies Blamed to Showgoers"]. ''The Oakland Tribune''. March 7, 1928. Retrieved February 9, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner/93934751/ "Woman Writer of Scenarios Here Assails Censors"]. ''The San Francisco Examiner''. May 25, 1928. p. 7. Retrieved February 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.</ref><ref>[https://www.proquest.com/docview/1529385215 "News From the Dailies: New York"]. ''Variety''. July 21, 1931. p. 39. "Mary Eunice McCarthy, Pacific Coast Newspaper woman, took leading role in her own play, 'Mrs. Garibaldi,' when tried out at Woodstock, N.Y. Stage name Mary Boyle." Retrieved February 9, 2022. {{Subscription required}}</ref> | occupation = Set decorator | years_active = 1925–1970<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1925-09-30_80_7/page/30/mode/2up?q=%22frisco+capital%22+%22edward+g+boyle%22 "Frisco Capital for Pictures"]. ''Variety''. September 30, 1925. p. 30. Retrieved February 3, 2022.</ref> | module = }}

'''Edward George Boyle''' (born '''Edward Joshua Boyle'''; January 30, 1899 – February 17, 1977) was a Canadian [[set decorator]] active in Hollywood between 1925 and 1970.

==Career== Boyle's career began in the early 1930s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His [[filmography]] includes such credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in [[Victor Fleming]]'s classic ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939), the [[Nazi]]-influenced designs for [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s fictional country of Tomania in ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' (1940), the gritty boxing world in [[Robert Rossen]]'s ''[[Body and Soul (1947 film)|Body and Soul]]'' (1947) and [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]'s ''[[Champion (1949 film)|Champion]]'' (1949), an elegant [[Bournemouth]] seaside hotel in ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]'' (1958), island life at the turn of the century in [[George Roy Hill]]'s ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]'' (1966) and the sophisticated [[demi-monde]] of the multi-millionaire lifestyles in [[Norman Jewison]]'s ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]'' (1968).

Winner of the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] in 1960 for [[Billy Wilder]]'s ''[[The Apartment]]'',<ref name="Oscars1961">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |title=The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 4, 2015 |work=oscars.org |date=October 5, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015234831/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |archive-date=October 15, 2015 }}</ref> Boyle was nominated six other times: for ''[[The Son of Monte Cristo]]'' in 1940, ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' in 1959, ''[[The Children's Hour (film)|The Children's Hour]]'' in 1961, ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' in 1964, ''[[The Fortune Cookie]]'' in 1966 and ''[[Gaily Gaily]]'' in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy Award Person Data |url=https://www.atogt.com/askoscar/display-person.php?id=14005 |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=www.atogt.com}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * [https://www.mediafire.com/view/krazfs4wges3seb/ "Boyle Heads Decorators"]. ''The Hollywood Reporter''. May 17, 1943. p. 3. * Hanson, Patricia King; Gevinson, Alan (1993). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=e024jm9X7gQC&dq=%22boyle+edward+g%22&pg=PA92 American Film Institute Catalog; Feature Films, 1931–1940]''. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 92. {{ISBN|0-520-07908-6}}.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0102231}}

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