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name: "Robert Clatworthy"
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roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "31 December 1911"
died: "2 March 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T04:44:12.198217+00:00"
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# Robert Clatworthy

Production designer. Born 31 December 1911 in Illinois, USA. Died 2 March 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 31 December 1911, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 2 March 1992
- **Active:** 1960–1967
- **Frequently works with:** [Stanley Kramer](https://film.one/person/stanley-kramer.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 4 nominated)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Romance 2, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $107m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clatworthy_(art_director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2156768, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165197/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7306

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md) (70)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Ship of Fools*](https://film.one/film/ship-of-fools.md) (62)

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## Biography

Robert Clatworthy (1911–1992) was an American art director and production designer. He began his career working on B-movies at Paramount and Universal studios before taking on more prominent assignments from the late 1950s.

He contributed art direction to films including *Touch of Evil* (1958), *Psycho* (1960), *The Parent Trap* (1961) and *Written on the Wind* (1956), and served as production designer on *Ship of Fools* (1965), *Inside Daisy Clover* (1965), *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967) and *Cactus Flower* (1969). He also worked on episodes of *The Twilight Zone* and intermittently with Disney in the 1960s and 1970s.

Clatworthy received an Academy Award for Best Art Direction–Set Decoration (Black-and-White) for *Ship of Fools* in 1966, along with further Oscar nominations for *Psycho*, *That Touch of Mink* (1962), *Inside Daisy Clover* and *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), Fi1m 70, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md)
- *Ship of Fools* (1965), Fi1m 62, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/ship-of-fools.md)
- *Psycho* (1960), Fi1m 90, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/psycho.md)

## Complete filmography (71)

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

- *Another Man, Another Chance* (1977), Production Design
- *Car Wash* (1976), as Art Direction
- *From Noon Till Three* (1976), Production Design
- *Treasure of Matecumbe* (1976), Production Design
- *Report to the Commissioner* (1975), Production Design
- *The Castaway Cowboy* (1974), Production Design
- *The Family Kovack* (1974), as Art Direction
- *The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton* (1974), as Art Direction
- *40 Carats* (1973), Production Design
- *Butterflies Are Free* (1972), Production Design
- *Scandalous John* (1971), as Art Direction
- *The Wild Country* (1970), Production Design
- *The Secret of Santa Vittoria* (1970), Production Design
- *Cactus Flower* (1969), Production Design
- *How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life* (1968), Production Design
- *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), Production Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md)
- *Inside Daisy Clover* (1966), Production Design
- *Ship of Fools* (1965), Production Design — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/ship-of-fools.md)
- *Send Me No Flowers* (1964), as Art Direction
- *Invitation to a Gunfighter* (1964), Production Design
- *Lover Come Back* (1961), as Art Direction
- *The Parent Trap* (1961), as Art Direction
- *Midnight Lace* (1960), as Art Direction
- *Psycho* (1960), as Art Direction — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/psycho.md)
- *Pollyanna* (1960), as Art Direction
- *The Leech Woman* (1960), as Art Direction
- *Curse of the Undead* (1959), as Art Direction
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Art Direction — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *The Wild and the Innocent* (1959), as Art Direction
- *Rawhide* (1959), series, as Art Direction
- *Once Upon a Horse...* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Touch of Evil* (1958), as Art Direction
- *The Female Animal* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Night Passage* (1957), as Art Direction
- *The Deadly Mantis* (1957), as Art Direction
- *The Incredible Shrinking Man* (1957), as Art Direction
- *Written on the Wind* (1956), as Art Direction
- *The Price of Fear* (1956), as Art Direction
- *The Second Greatest Sex* (1955), as Art Direction
- *To Hell and Back* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Female on the Beach* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Foxfire* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Six Bridges to Cross* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Dawn at Socorro* (1954), as Art Direction
- *Francis Joins the WACS* (1954), as Art Direction
- *Playgirl* (1954), as Art Direction
- *Wings of the Hawk* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Law and Order* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Desert Legion* (1953), as Art Direction
- *It Happens Every Thursday* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Because of You* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Horizons West* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Steel Town* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Apache Drums* (1951), as Art Direction
- *Shakedown* (1950), as Art Direction
- *I Was a Shoplifter* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Woman in Hiding* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Isn't It Romantic?* (1948), as Art Direction
- *Hazard* (1948), as Art Direction
- *Variety Girl* (1947), as Art Direction
- *Blonde Alibi* (1946), as Art Direction
- *Smooth as Silk* (1946), as Art Direction
- *This Love of Ours* (1945), as Art Direction
- *Lady on a Train* (1945), as Art Direction
- *The Jungle Captive* (1945), as Art Direction
- *Frisco Sal* (1945), as Art Direction
- *She Gets Her Man* (1945), as Art Direction
- *Christmas Holiday* (1944), as Art Direction
- *Phantom Lady* (1944), as Art Direction
- *Top Man* (1943), as Art Direction
- *So's Your Uncle* (1943), as Art Direction

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 4 nominated

- 1968: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*
- 1966: Best Art Direction, Black and White (won), for *Ship of Fools*
- 1966: Best Art Direction, Color (nominated), for *Inside Daisy Clover*
- 1963: Best Art Direction, Color (nominated), for *That Touch of Mink*
- 1961: Best Art Direction, Black and White (nominated), for *Psycho*

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

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