{{Short description|American set decorator}}
{{Infobox person |name = Robert Checchi |birth_name = Robert Joseph Checchi |birth_date = {{birth date|1926|04|20}} |birth_place = Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1993|06|04|1926|04|20}} |death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. |occupation = Set decorator |alma_mater = University of Texas }}
'''Robert Joseph Checchi''' (April 20, 1926 – June 4, 1993) was an American set decorator.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/obituaries/robert-j-checchi-set-designer-67.html|title= Robert J. Checchi Set Designer, 67|work=The New York Times|date=June 11, 1993|access-date=November 27, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9djVDwAAQBAJ|title=The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard|page=294|first=John|last=Birdsall|publisher=W. W. Norton|date=October 6, 2020|isbn=9780393635720|via=Google Books}}</ref>
== Life and career == Checchi was born in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Texas.<ref name="a">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-10-mn-1508-story.html|title=Robert J. Checchi; Award-Winning Set Decorator|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 10, 1993|access-date=November 27, 2022}}</ref>
Checchi worked as a set designer for CBS after moving to Hollywood, California.<ref name="a" /> In 1972, he was nominated for his first Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the television program ''The Glen Campbell Show''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1972/outstanding-art-direction-for-a-series|title=Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction or Scenic Design - For a Musical or Variety Single Program of a Series or a Special Program Nominees / Series 1972|work=Television Academy|access-date=November 27, 2022}}</ref> He later won five Emmys and was nominated for four more in the category Outstanding Art Direction for his work on ''Benjamin Franklin'', ''Cher'', ''Eccentricities of a Nightingale'', ''Soap'', ''Once Upon a Brothers Grimm'', ''Blind Ambition'', ''Sarah, Plain and Tall'' and ''Miss Rose White''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/robert-checchi|title=Robert Checchi|work=Television Academy|access-date=November 27, 2022}}</ref>
Checchi died in June 1993 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 67.<ref name="a" />
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