Biography
Stephen B. Grimes (1927–1988) was an English production designer and art director. He began his career in the British film industry after the Second World War as a sketch artist and trained at St Martin's School of Art.
Grimes maintained long collaborations with directors John Huston, for whom he worked on fourteen films, and Sydney Pollack, with whom he made seven. His credits include production design on The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Murder by Death (1976), On Golden Pond (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Krull (1983) and Out of Africa (1985). He also contributed art direction or assistant roles on earlier films such as Moby Dick (1956) and The Misfits (1961).
He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Out of Africa and received two further nominations in the category. Grimes died in Positano, Italy, while preparing sketches for The King's Whore (1990).
