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Art director
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Male
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Birth:
27 February 1901(Missouri)
Death:
23 July 1990(Tehama County)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Robert Usher (February 27, 1901 – July 23, 1990) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.
Usher spent the last twenty years of his life as a religious brother at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina California, where he designed some of the monastery's buildings and the cemetery gardens.
Selected filmography
Usher was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:
- Arise, My Love (1940)
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
- No Time for Love (1943)