Jack Martin Smith

{{Short description|American art director (1911–1993)}} {{Infobox person | name = Jack Martin Smith | image = | image_size = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|1|2}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|11|7|1911|1|2}} | death_place = | employer = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (1937-1955)<br /> [[20th Century Fox]] (1956-1977) | occupation = [[art director]] | years_active = 1937-1977 }}

'''Jack Martin Smith''' (January 2, 1911 - November 7, 1993) was a highly successful [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] [[art director]] with over 130 films to his credit and nine [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations which ultimately yielded three [[Academy Awards|Oscars]].

==Career== ===MGM=== He made his debut in 1937 and two years later found himself working as a production designer on ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Smith spent most of his working life at [[MGM]] where he worked on such films as ''[[Easter Parade (film)|Easter Parade]]'' (1948), ''[[On the Town (film)|On the Town]]'' (1949), and the 1951 version of ''[[Show Boat (1951 film)|Show Boat]]''. His first Oscar nomination came in 1949 for his work on [[Vincente Minnelli]]'s adaptation of ''[[Madame Bovary (1949 film)|Madame Bovary]]''.

===20th Century Fox=== Later, he moved to [[20th Century Fox]], where he was one of the art directors on the 1956 film version of ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]''. Other big productions to bear his name there include ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]'' (1957), ''[[Return to Peyton Place]]'' (1961), ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (1963, his first Oscar win), ''[[Von Ryan's Express]]'' (1965), the science fiction epic ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]'' (1966, which earned him his second Oscar), ''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]'' (1968)(with [[William J. Creber]]), ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'' (1969) and ''[[MASH (film)|MASH]]'' (1970). His third Oscar was for ''[[Hello, Dolly! (film)|Hello, Dolly!]]'' in 1969.

===Television=== Smith also worked frequently in television on such series as ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'', ''[[Lost in Space]]'' and ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''.

===Disney=== His last film before retirement was the [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] part-animated film ''[[Pete's Dragon (1977 film)|Pete's Dragon]]'' in 1977.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0005584}}

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