Alexander Golitzen

Production Designer, Award Winner

1908 – 2005

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Who was Alexander Golitzen?

Alexander Golitzen, was a production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.

Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school. He then attended the University of Washington, where he achieved a degree in architecture.

He started his art direction career in Los Angeles, as an assistant to Alexander Toluboff, an art director for MGM. He started working with Walter Wanger in 1939 and they worked together for many movies. Starting in 1942, and continuing for the next 30 years, he became a unit art director, and later a supervising art director at Universal, overseeing dozens of productions.

Alexander Golitzen earned an Academy Award nomination for Foreign Correspondent, and received three Oscars for Phantom of the Opera in 1943, Spartacus in 1960 and To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962.

He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown, Arabian Nights, The Climax, Flower Drum Song, That Touch of Mink, Gambit, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sweet Charity, Airport, and Earthquake.

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Born
Feb 28, 1908
Moscow
Also known as
  • Alex Golitzen
  • Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Galitzine
  • Prince Alexander Golitzen
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Galitzine
  • Alexander Golitsyn
  • Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn)
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Children
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Russian Empire
Profession
Died
Jul 26, 2005
San Diego

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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