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Art Director, Production Designer Born: April 16, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: March 23, 2002 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:A key figure in creating the look of some of Hollywood's greatest "New Wave" films, production designer "Richard Sylbert" collaborated with several of the period's most notable filmmakers, earning a brief, unprecedented tenure as Paramount's head of production in the process. Equally adept at period and contemporary styles, urban and rural milieus, and designs for black-and-white and color cinematography, Sylbert earned six Oscar nominations over the course of his five-decade career, winning for the distinctly different "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) and "Dick Tracy" (1990).
Born in Brooklyn, Sylbert and his identical twin brother, "Paul Sylbert", fought together in the Korean War and attended Temple University's Tyler School of Art together. Returning to New York after school, both Sylberts landed TV jobs, with Richard painting scenery at NBC. After two years as the art director for TV's... Full Biography
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