Rudolph Sternad

Rudolph Sternad

Production designer. Born 6 October 1906 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. Died 23 April 1963.

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Born
6 October 1906, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died
23 April 1963

Biography

Rudolph Sternad (6 October 1906 – 23 April 1963) was an American art director and production designer. He worked on more than seventy films, beginning in the 1930s.

Sternad was a frequent collaborator with producer-director Stanley Kramer. He contributed to many of Kramer's productions, including High Noon (1952), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Defiant Ones (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

He received three Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, for The Talk of the Town (1942), A Thousand and One Nights (1945) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Rudolph Sternad is known for High Noon (1952), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Inherit the Wind (1960), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Wild One (1953), The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959) and Dead Reckoning (1946).