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name: "Robert Odell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-odell"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "4 May 1896"
died: "20 February 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:04:20.441936+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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# Robert Odell

Editor. Born 4 May 1896 in Los Angeles. Died 20 February 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 4 May 1896, Los Angeles
- **Died:** 20 February 1984
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Odell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703638, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643987/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224402

## Biography

Robert Odell (4 May 1896 – 20 February 1984) was an American art director. He worked primarily at Paramount Pictures between the early 1930s and 1940.

Odell received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction for *Beau Geste* (1939), shared with Hans Dreier. His other credits include *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), *Dr. Cyclops* (1940) and *Road to Singapore* (1940).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Surgikill* (1989), as Sly Sickem
- *Dr. Cyclops* (1940), as Art Direction
- *Road to Singapore* (1940), as Art Direction
- *The Light That Failed* (1939), as Art Direction
- *Beau Geste* (1939), as Art Direction
- *Unmarried* (1939), as Art Direction
- *King of Chinatown* (1939), as Art Direction
- *Boy Trouble* (1939), as Art Direction
- *Say It in French* (1938), as Art Direction
- *Men with Wings* (1938), as Art Direction
- *Tip-Off Girls* (1938), as Art Direction
- *Bulldog Drummond's Peril* (1938), as Art Direction
- *Daughter of Shanghai* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Bulldog Drummond's Revenge* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Born to the West* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Hold 'Em Navy* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Partners in Crime* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Sophie Lang Goes West* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Wild Money* (1937), as Art Direction
- *The Sky Parade* (1936), as Art Direction
- *Straight from the Shoulder* (1936), as Art Direction
- *The Arizona Raiders* (1936), as Art Direction
- *Early to Bed* (1936), as Art Direction
- *Border Flight* (1936), as Art Direction
- *Here Comes Cookie* (1935), as Art Direction
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md)
- *The Notorious Sophie Lang* (1934), as Art Direction
- *Double Door* (1934), as Art Direction
- *Six of a Kind* (1934), as Art Direction
- *Too Much Harmony* (1933), as Art Direction
- *The Eagle and the Hawk* (1933), as Art Direction
- *Fighting Caravans* (1931), as Art Direction
- *The Little 'Fraid Lady* (1920), as Art Direction
- *Occasionally Yours* (1920), as Art Direction

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1940: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Beau Geste*

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

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