---
name: "Ted Haworth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ted-haworth"
fi1m_id: "ted-haworth"
imdb_id: "nm0370385"
tmdb_id: 12495
wikidata_id: "Q1754756"
roles: ["Art direction"]
born: "26 September 1917"
died: "18 February 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-04T20:11:29.361222+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."
---

# Ted Haworth

## Identity

Ted Haworth

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ted-haworth
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ted-haworth
- **IMDb ID:** nm0370385
- **TMDB ID:** 12495
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1754756
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haworth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12495

Art direction. Born 26 September 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Died 18 February 1993.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Born:** 26 September 1917, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 18 February 1993
- **Active:** 1951–1987
- **Also known as:** Edward Hayworth , Edward S. Haworth,  Ted Aworth
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 5 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 83 (3), 1960s 76 (2), 1980s 63 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 78 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Crime 2, Science Fiction 2, Thriller 2, War 2
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $157m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haworth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12495

## Biography

Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. Born Edward S. Haworth on 26 September 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, he began his career as an illustrator and set designer at Warner Brothers before receiving his first screen credit as art director on Alfred Hitchcock's *Strangers on a Train* (1951). He worked on more than 50 feature films between 1950 and 1992.

Haworth won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for *Sayonara* (1957) and received five further nominations in the category for *Marty* (1955), *Some Like It Hot* (1959), *Pepe* (1960), *The Longest Day* (1962) and *What a Way to Go!* (1964). Among his production design credits are *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1956), *The Beguiled* (1971), *Jeremiah Johnson* (1972), *Poltergeist II: The Other Side* (1986) and *batteries not included* (1987). He was posthumously inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.

He was the father of production designer Sean Haworth and pop artist Jann Haworth. Haworth died on 18 February 1993 in Sundance, Utah.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- **batteries not included* (1987), Fi1m 63, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/batteries-not-included.md)
- *Seconds* (1966), Fi1m 84, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/seconds.md)
- *The Longest Day* (1962), Fi1m 68, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-longest-day.md)
- *Some Like It Hot* (1959), Fi1m 92, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/some-like-it-hot.md)
- *Friendly Persuasion* (1956), Fi1m 72, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/friendly-persuasion.md)
- *Strangers on a Train* (1951), Fi1m 86, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/strangers-on-a-train.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

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

- *Mr. Baseball* (1992), Production Design
- *Mothers, Daughters and Lovers* (1989), Production Design
- *Juarez* (1988), Production Design
- **batteries not included* (1987), Production Design — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/batteries-not-included.md)
- *Poltergeist II: The Other Side* (1986), Production Design
- *The Legend of Billie Jean* (1985), Production Design
- *Confessions of a Married Man* (1983), as Art Direction
- *Jinxed!* (1982), Production Design
- *Honeyboy* (1982), Production Design
- *Carbon Copy* (1981), Production Design
- *Death Hunt* (1981), Production Design
- *Rough Cut* (1980), Production Design
- *Bloodline* (1979), Production Design
- *When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?* (1979), Production Design
- *Somebody Killed Her Husband* (1978), Production Design
- *Telefon* (1977), Production Design
- *Cross of Iron* (1977), Production Design
- *The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea* (1976), Production Design
- *The Killer Elite* (1975), Production Design
- *Harry and Tonto* (1974), as Art Direction
- *Claudine* (1974), Production Design
- *Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid* (1973), as Art Direction
- *The Getaway* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Jeremiah Johnson* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Junior Bonner* (1972), as Art Direction
- *The Beguiled* (1971), Production Design
- *The Kremlin Letter* (1970), Production Design
- *Villa Rides* (1968), Production Design
- *Half a Sixpence* (1967), Production Design
- *The Way West* (1967), as Art Direction
- *The Professionals* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Seconds* (1966), as Art Direction — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/seconds.md)
- *The Glory Guys* (1965), Production Design
- *What a Way to Go!* (1964), as Art Direction
- *Escape from East Berlin* (1962), as Art Direction
- *The Longest Day* (1962), as Art Direction — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-longest-day.md)
- *Pepe* (1960), as Art Direction
- *Who Was That Lady?* (1960), as Art Direction
- *Middle of the Night* (1959), as Art Direction
- *Some Like It Hot* (1959), as Art Direction — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/some-like-it-hot.md)
- *I Want to Live!* (1958), as Art Direction
- *The Naked and the Dead* (1958), as Art Direction
- *The Goddess* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Sayonara* (1957), as Art Direction
- *The Monster That Challenged the World* (1957), as Other
- *Friendly Persuasion* (1956), as Art Direction — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/friendly-persuasion.md)
- *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1956), Production Design
- *The Naked Street* (1955), Production Design
- *The Kentuckian* (1955), Production Design
- *Marty* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Carnival Story* (1954), Production Design
- *His Majesty O'Keefe* (1954), as Art Direction
- *I Confess* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Mutiny* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Aladdin and His Lamp* (1952), Production Design
- *Strangers on a Train* (1951), as Art Direction — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/strangers-on-a-train.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 5 nominated

- 1965: Best Art Direction, Color (nominated), for *What a Way to Go!*
- 1963: Best Art Direction, Black and White (nominated), for *The Longest Day*
- 1961: Best Art Direction, Color (nominated), for *Pepe*
- 1960: Best Art Direction, Black and White (nominated), for *Some Like It Hot*
- 1958: Best Production Design (won), for *Sayonara*
- 1956: Best Art Direction, Black and White (nominated), for *Marty*

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

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