---
name: "Gene Rudolf"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gene-rudolf"
fi1m_id: "gene-rudolf"
imdb_id: "nm0748908"
tmdb_id: 6921
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T17:20:41.046682+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gene Rudolf

## Identity

Gene Rudolf

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gene-rudolf
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gene-rudolf
- **IMDb ID:** nm0748908
- **TMDB ID:** 6921
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6921

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1975–1983
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 59 (2), 1980s 86 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 65 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 1, Drama 1, History 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $186m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6921

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Raging Bull*](https://film.one/film/raging-bull.md) (91), [*Trading Places*](https://film.one/film/trading-places.md) (80)

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## Biography

Gene Rudolf is a production designer and art director. His credits include production design on *Raging Bull* (1980), *Trading Places* (1983), *Young Guns II* (1990) and *Out for Justice* (1991).

He worked as art director on *Superman* (1978), *The Taking of Pelham One Two Three* (1974), *Three Days of the Condor* (1975) and *The Great Gatsby* (1974).

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Trading Places* (1983), Fi1m 80, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/trading-places.md)
- *Raging Bull* (1980), Fi1m 91, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/raging-bull.md)
- *Exorcist II: The Heretic* (1977), Fi1m 38, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/exorcist-ii-the-heretic.md)
- *Three Days of the Condor* (1975), Fi1m 80, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/three-days-of-the-condor.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *McHale's Navy* (1997), Production Design
- *Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story* (1992), Production Design
- *Out for Justice* (1991), Production Design
- *When You Remember Me* (1990), Production Design
- *Young Guns II* (1990), Production Design
- *Cadillac Man* (1990), Production Design
- *Johnny Handsome* (1989), Production Design
- *Millennium* (1989), Production Design
- *Heart of Midnight* (1988), Production Design
- *Cop* (1988), Production Design
- *Best Seller* (1987), Production Design
- *Oceans of Fire* (1986), Production Design
- *Once Bitten* (1985), Production Design
- *Trading Places* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/trading-places.md)
- *Author! Author!* (1982), Production Design
- *The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia* (1981), Production Design
- *Raging Bull* (1980), Production Design — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/raging-bull.md)
- *Women at West Point* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Superman* (1978), as Art Direction
- *The Dain Curse* (1978), series, as Art Direction · Production Design
- *Fingers* (1978), Production Design
- *Exorcist II: The Heretic* (1977), as Art Direction — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/exorcist-ii-the-heretic.md)
- *Three Days of the Condor* (1975), as Art Direction — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/three-days-of-the-condor.md)
- *Law and Disorder* (1974), as Art Direction
- *The Taking of Pelham One Two Three* (1974), as Art Direction
- *The Great Gatsby* (1974), as Art Direction
- *The Soul of Nigger Charley* (1973), as Art Direction
- *Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story* (1971), as Art Direction
- *The Hospital* (1971), Production Design
- *Little Murders* (1971), Production Design

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