---
name: "John Muto"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-muto"
fi1m_id: "john-muto"
imdb_id: "nm0616141"
tmdb_id: 11507
wikidata_id: "Q95875959"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:44:57.118878+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."
---

# John Muto

## Identity

John Muto

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-muto
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-muto
- **IMDb ID:** nm0616141
- **TMDB ID:** 11507
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95875959
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95875959, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616141/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11507

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95875959, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616141/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11507

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Home Alone*](https://film.one/film/home-alone.md) (80)

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

## Biography

John Muto is a production designer. His credits include *Home Alone* (1990), *Night of the Comet* (1984), *River's Edge* (1986), *Flowers in the Attic* (1987), *Gleaming the Cube* (1989), *Heart Condition* (1990), *Only the Lonely* (1991), *Heart and Souls* (1993) and *Species* (1995).

He studied writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and has no formal design training. Muto began his career in theatre before entering film, where he also worked in visual effects and art department roles on earlier projects such as *Battle Beyond the Stars* (1980). He has taught production design at the AFI Conservatory.

*Sources: imdb.com, slate.com, artstars.us, avclub.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Home Alone* (1990), Fi1m 80, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/home-alone.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Children of the Corn* (2009), Art Designer
- *Species* (1995), Production Design
- *Wilder Napalm* (1993), Production Design
- *Heart and Souls* (1993), Production Design
- *Only the Lonely* (1991), Production Design
- *Home Alone* (1990), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/home-alone.md)
- *Heart Condition* (1990), Production Design
- *Gleaming the Cube* (1989), Production Design
- *Heartbreak Hotel* (1988), Production Design
- *Flowers in the Attic* (1987), Production Design
- *Nightflyers* (1987), Production Design
- *River's Edge* (1986), Production Design
- *Night of the Comet* (1984), Visual Effects Designer, Production Design
- *Slapstick of Another Kind* (1982), Second Unit Director

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