---
name: "Stephen B. Grimes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-b-grimes"
fi1m_id: "stephen-b-grimes"
imdb_id: "nm0342242"
tmdb_id: 10641
wikidata_id: "Q2344540"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "18 April 1927"
died: "12 September 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-04T18:26:42.138228+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."
---

# Stephen B. Grimes

## Identity

Stephen B. Grimes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-b-grimes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-b-grimes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0342242
- **TMDB ID:** 10641
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2344540
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_B._Grimes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2344540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342242/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10641

Production designer. Born 18 April 1927 in Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK. Died 12 September 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 18 April 1927, Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK
- **Died:** 12 September 1988
- **Active:** 1975–1987
- **Also known as:** Stephen Grimes
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 1 acting, 7 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Klaus Maria Brandauer](https://film.one/person/klaus-maria-brandauer.md), [Lorenzo Semple Jr.](https://film.one/person/lorenzo-semple-jr.md), [Max von Sydow](https://film.one/person/max-von-sydow.md), [Peter Yates](https://film.one/person/peter-yates.md), [Robert Redford](https://film.one/person/robert-redford.md), [Sydney Pollack](https://film.one/person/sydney-pollack.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 1980s 67 (7)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 62 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Action 2, Adventure 2, Romance 2, Thriller 2, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 14 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $395m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_B._Grimes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2344540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342242/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10641

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Dead*](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md) (86)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Three Days of the Condor*](https://film.one/film/three-days-of-the-condor.md) (80)
- **Peacock:** [*On Golden Pond*](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md) (72)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Urban Cowboy*](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md) (61)
- **Netflix:** [*Out of Africa*](https://film.one/film/out-of-africa.md) (54)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Krull*](https://film.one/film/krull.md) (54)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (8)

### Performed in (1)

- *Out of Africa* (1985), Fi1m 54, as Second Commissioner — [page](https://film.one/film/out-of-africa.md)

### Crew (7) — the average rests on these

- *The Dead* (1987), Fi1m 86, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md)
- *Krull* (1983), Fi1m 54, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/krull.md)
- *Never Say Never Again* (1983), Fi1m 64, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/never-say-never-again.md)
- *The Dresser* (1983), Fi1m 80, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dresser.md)
- *On Golden Pond* (1981), Fi1m 72, Production Design, Production design, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md)
- *Urban Cowboy* (1980), Fi1m 61, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md)
- *Three Days of the Condor* (1975), Fi1m 80, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/three-days-of-the-condor.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *The Dead* (1987), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md)
- *Out of Africa* (1985), as Second Commissioner · Production Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/out-of-africa.md)
- *The Dresser* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dresser.md)
- *Never Say Never Again* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/never-say-never-again.md)
- *Krull* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/krull.md)
- *On Golden Pond* (1981), Production Design, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md)
- *True Confessions* (1981), Production Design
- *Urban Cowboy* (1980), Production Design — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md)
- *The Electric Horseman* (1979), Production Design
- *Straight Time* (1978), Production Design
- *Bobby Deerfield* (1977), Production Design
- *Murder by Death* (1976), Production Design
- *Three Days of the Condor* (1975), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/three-days-of-the-condor.md)
- *The Yakuza* (1974), Production Design, Second Unit Director
- *The Way We Were* (1973), Production Design
- *Ryan's Daughter* (1970), Production Designer
- *A Walk with Love and Death* (1969), Production Design
- *Sinful Davey* (1969), Production Design
- *Reflections in a Golden Eye* (1967), Production Design, Set Designer
- *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966), Assistant Art Director
- *This Property Is Condemned* (1966), Production Design
- *The Night of the Iguana* (1964), as Art Direction
- *The List of Adrian Messenger* (1963), as Art Direction
- *Freud: The Secret Passion* (1962), as Art Direction
- *The Misfits* (1961), as Art Direction
- *The Unforgiven* (1960), as Art Direction
- *The Roots of Heaven* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison* (1957), as Art Direction
- *Moby Dick* (1956), Assistant Art Director
- *Attila* (1954), Special Effects

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 1986: Best Production Design (won), for *Out of Africa*
- 1974: Best Production Design (nominated), for *The Way We Were*
- 1965: Best Art Direction, Black and White (nominated), for *The Night of the Iguana*

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

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