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name: "Mario Chiari"
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born: "14 July 1909"
died: "8 April 1989"
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# Mario Chiari

Production designer. Born 14 July 1909 in Firenze, Toscana, Italia. Died 8 April 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 14 July 1909, Firenze, Toscana, Italia
- **Died:** 8 April 1989
- **Also known as:** Sammy Fields
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Chiari, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1898710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157061/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25802

## Biography

Mario Chiari (14 July 1909 – 8 April 1989) was an Italian production designer and art director. Born in Florence, he worked extensively in Italian cinema from the 1940s and later on international productions. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction–Set Decoration for his work on *Doctor Dolittle* (1967).

Chiari contributed production design or art direction to films including *I Vitelloni* (1953), *War and Peace* (1956), *White Nights* (1957), *Barabbas* (1961), *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966), *Ludwig* (1973) and *King Kong* (1976). He was also credited as Sammy Fields or Samuel Fields on some projects and received several Nastro d'Argento awards for production design.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Dolittle* (1967), Fi1m 50, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-dolittle.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

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

- *Yuppies 2* (1986), Production Design
- *Yuppies* (1986), Production Design
- *Womanlight* (1979), Production Design
- *Ashanti* (1979), Production Design
- *Traffic Jam* (1979), Production Design
- *King Kong* (1976), Production Design
- *Prete, fai un miracolo* (1975), Director, Story
- *The Killer Reserved Nine Seats* (1974), Production Design
- *Morel's Invention* (1974), Editor
- *Ludwig* (1973), Production Design
- *The Deserter* (1970), Production Design
- *A Man Called Sledge* (1970), Production Design
- *The Betrayal* (1969), Production Design
- *A Quiet Place in the Country* (1968), First Assistant Director
- *Sunstroke* (1968), First Assistant Director
- *Sardinia Kidnapped* (1968), Script Supervisor
- *Doctor Dolittle* (1967), Production Design — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-dolittle.md)
- *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966), as Art Direction
- *The Third Eye* (1966), Production Designer
- *The Queens* (1966), Costume Design
- *The Ghost* (1963), as Art Direction
- *The Reluctant Saint* (1962), as Art Direction
- *The Police Commissioner* (1962), Production Design
- *Barabbas* (1961), as Art Direction · Production Designer
- *A Difficult Life* (1961), Production Design
- *Ghosts of Rome* (1961), Production Design
- *The Hunchback* (1960), Production Design
- *Gastone* (1960), Production Design
- *The Giant of Marathon* (1959), Production Design
- *Son of the Red Corsair* (1959), Production Design
- *Winter Holidays* (1959), Production Design
- *The Law* (1959), Production Design
- *Tempest* (1958), Production Design
- *Fortunella* (1958), Production Design
- *White Nights* (1957), Production Design
- *This Angry Age* (1957), as Art Direction
- *War and Peace* (1956), as Art Direction
- *The Art of Getting Along* (1954), Production Design
- *Too Bad She's Bad* (1954), Production Design
- *Casta diva* (1954), Production Design
- *Loves of Three Queens* (1954), as Art Direction
- *Sins of Casanova* (1954), Production Design
- *House of Ricordi* (1954), Production Design
- *Neapolitan Carousel* (1954), Production Design
- *Storm* (1954), Production Design
- *High School* (1954), Production Design
- *Mid-Century Loves* (1954), Production Design, Director
- *Cavalcade of Song* (1953), as Art Direction
- *I Vitelloni* (1953), Production Design
- *Man, Beast and Virtue* (1953), Production Design
- *The World Condemns Them* (1953), Production Design
- *Ho scelto l'amore* (1953), Production Design, Costume Design
- *The Golden Coach* (1952), as Art Direction
- *La nemica* (1952), Production Design
- *Love I Haven't... But... But* (1951), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Miracle in Milan* (1951), Co-Writer, Costume Design
- *Volcano* (1950), Writer, Art Direction, Set Decoration, Costume Design
- *Fabiola* (1949), Story
- *A Day in the Life* (1946), Screenplay, Story
- *The Sinner* (1940), Assistant Director
- *The Conquest of the Air*, Assistant Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1968: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Doctor Dolittle*

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

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