{{Short description|American art director}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Jack Otterson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|8|25}} | birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|12|22|1905|8|25}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, US | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1934-1953 }}
'''John (Jack) Edward Otterson''' (August 25, 1905 – December 22, 1991) was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between the years of 1934 and 1953.
==Biography== Otterson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 25, 1905. He was educated at Yale, where he was an editor of a campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record'' with writer Geoffrey T. Hellman, writer and film critic Dwight Macdonald and Hollywood photographer Jerome Zerbe.<ref>''Yale Banner and Pot Pourri''. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1927. p. 229.</ref>
==Death== Otterson died in Los Angeles, California on December 22, 1991.
==Awards== Otterson was nominated for eight Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: * ''The Magnificent Brute'' (1936)<ref name="Oscars1937">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1937 |title=The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 7, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093710/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/9th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> * ''You're a Sweetheart'' (1937)<ref name="Oscars1938">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1938 |title=The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 9, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093713/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/10th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Mad About Music'' (1938)<ref name="Oscars1939">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1939 |title=The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 10, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093716/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/11th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''First Love'' (1939)<ref name="Oscars1940">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1940 |title=The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 10, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093722/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/12th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''The Boys from Syracuse'' (1940)<ref name="Oscars1941">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1941 |title=The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 12, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093728/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/13th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''The Flame of New Orleans'' (1941)<ref name="Oscars1942">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1942 |title=The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 13, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093733/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/14th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Arabian Nights'' (1942)<ref name="Oscars1943">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943 |title=The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 13, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093739/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/15th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''The Spoilers'' (1942)<ref name="Oscars1943" />
==Selected filmography== * ''The Missing Guest'' (1938) * ''Son of Frankenstein'' (1939) * ''Tower of London'' (1939) * ''The Invisible Man Returns'' (1940) * ''The House of the Seven Gables'' (1940) * ''The Wolf Man'' (1941) *''The Ghost of Frankenstein'' (1942) * ''The Spoilers'' (1942) * ''Arabian Nights'' (1942)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0653163}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Otterson, Jack}} Category:1905 births Category:1991 deaths Category:American art directors Category:Artists from Pittsburgh Category:The Yale Record alumni Category:20th-century American people