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name: "Harry Horner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-horner"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 July 1910"
died: "5 December 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T03:52:46.530035+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."
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# Harry Horner

Producer. Born 24 July 1910 in Holitz, Bohemia. Died 5 December 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 July 1910, Holitz, Bohemia
- **Died:** 5 December 1994
- **Active:** 1949–1961
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 producing, 3 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 1 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 90 (1), 1950s 75 (2), 1960s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Horner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86885, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395105/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14878

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Born Yesterday*](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md) (76)
- **Apple TV:** [*Separate Tables*](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Harry Horner (24 July 1910 – 5 December 1994) was a Czech-born American production designer and art director. Born in Holice, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), he studied architecture at the University of Vienna and began his career working with Max Reinhardt in Vienna before moving to the United States in the mid-1930s.

During the Second World War he served with the US Army Air Forces, designing sets for the production Winged Victory. He won Academy Awards for his work on The Heiress (1949, shared with John Meehan) and The Hustler (1961). Horner was also nominated for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Other notable credits include A Double Life (1947), Born Yesterday (1950) and Separate Tables (1958). He directed a number of films and television episodes, including episodes of Gunsmoke, and retired after completing The Jazz Singer (1980). He was the father of composer James Horner.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Separate Tables* (1958), Fi1m 74, Associate Producer, Production design, Production Design, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md)

### Crew (3)

- *The Hustler* (1961), Fi1m 88, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hustler.md)
- *Born Yesterday* (1950), Fi1m 76, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md)
- *The Heiress* (1949), Fi1m 90, Art Direction, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-heiress.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *The Jazz Singer* (1980), Production Design
- *Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter* (1979), Production Design
- *Moment by Moment* (1978), Production Design
- *The Driver* (1978), Production Design
- *Audrey Rose* (1977), Production Design
- *Harry and Walter Go to New York* (1976), Production Design
- *The Black Bird* (1975), Production Design
- *Up the Sandbox* (1972), Production Design
- *Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?* (1971), Production Design
- *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* (1969), Production Design
- *The Hustler* (1961), Production Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hustler.md)
- *R.C.M.P.* (1959), series, Director
- *The Wonderful Country* (1959), Production Design
- *World of Giants* (1959), series, Director
- *Separate Tables* (1958), Production Design, Associate Producer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md)
- *Lux Playhouse* (1958), series, Director
- *The Rough Riders* (1958), series, Director
- *Shirley Temple's Storybook* (1958), series, Director
- *The Wild Party* (1956), Director
- *Man from Del Rio* (1956), Director
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), series, Director
- *A Life in the Balance* (1955), Director
- *TV Reader's Digest* (1955), series, Director
- *New Faces* (1954), Director
- *Vicki* (1953), Director
- *Androcles and the Lion* (1952), Production Design
- *Cavalcade of America* (1952), series, Director
- *Four Star Playhouse* (1952), series, Director
- *Beware, My Lovely* (1952), Director
- *Red Planet Mars* (1952), Director
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, Director
- *He Ran All the Way* (1951), Production Design
- *Born Yesterday* (1950), Production Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md)
- *Outrage* (1950), Production Design
- *Tarzan and the Slave Girl* (1950), Production Design
- *The Heiress* (1949), Production Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-heiress.md)
- *A Double Life* (1947), Production Design
- *Stage Door Canteen* (1943), Production Design
- *Tarzan Triumphs* (1943), Production Designer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 2 won, 1 nominated

- 1970: Best Production Design (nominated), for *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?*
- 1962: Best Art Direction, Black and White (won), for *The Hustler*
- 1950: Best Art Direction, Black and White (won), for *The Heiress*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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