{{Short description|American art director}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Eric Walter Orbom | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|7|6}} | birth_place = [[Stockholm, Sweden]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|5|23|1915|7|6}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]] | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1950 – 1959 }}

'''Eric Walter Orbom''' (July 6, 1915 &ndash; May 23, 1959) was an American [[Art director#In film|art director]].<ref name=funeral/> He won a [[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous]] [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]] for the film ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]''.<ref name="oscars.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |title=The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners |access-date=July 23, 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref><ref name="IMDb.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0649417/awards |title=IMDb.com: Eric Orbom - Awards |access-date=December 24, 2008|work=IMDb.com}}</ref>

==Biography== He was born on July 6, 1915, in [[Stockholm, Sweden]] to Walter Eric Gustav Orbom (1890–1915) and Signe Albertina Jonsson (1891–1961). He migrated to the United States in 1918 and lived in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]. He died on May 23, 1959, in [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref name=funeral>{{cite news |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |title=Eric W. Orbom |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15605861/eric_walter_orbom_19151959_art/ |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 27, 1959 }}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]'' (1960)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0649417}}

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