---
name: "Victor Kempster"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/victor-kempster"
fi1m_id: "victor-kempster"
imdb_id: "nm0447504"
tmdb_id: 3188
wikidata_id: "Q27704547"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "14 July 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-26T15:08:14.075692+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."
---

# Victor Kempster

## Identity

Victor Kempster

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/victor-kempster
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** victor-kempster
- **IMDb ID:** nm0447504
- **TMDB ID:** 3188
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27704547
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27704547, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447504/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3188

Production designer. Born 14 July 1953 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 14 July 1953, United States
- **Active:** 1989–2007
- **Frequently works with:** [Clayton Townsend](https://film.one/person/clayton-townsend.md), [Oliver Stone](https://film.one/person/oliver-stone.md), [Tommy Lee Jones](https://film.one/person/tommy-lee-jones.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 71 (2), 1990s 72 (2), 2000s 67 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 66 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Thriller 3, Crime 2, Action 1, History 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $786m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27704547, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447504/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3188

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Miami Vice*](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md) (67)

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## Biography

Victor Kempster is an American production designer. He began working in the film industry in the mid-1970s as a production assistant and location coordinator before progressing to set decorator and art director roles.

Kempster served as production designer on several Oliver Stone films, including *JFK* (1991), *Natural Born Killers* (1994) and *Nixon* (1995). His other credits include art direction on *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989) and *Driving Miss Daisy* (1989), and production design on *Miami Vice* (2006), *Any Given Sunday* (1999), *Bandits* (2001), *Charlie Wilson's War* (2007), *Larry Crowne* (2011) and *The Dictator* (2012). He has received Emmy nominations for his work.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Miami Vice* (2006), Fi1m 67, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md)
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Fi1m 64, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *JFK* (1991), Fi1m 80, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/jfk.md)
- *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), Fi1m 74, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md)
- *Driving Miss Daisy* (1989), Fi1m 68, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/driving-miss-daisy.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *The Dictator* (2012), Production Design
- *Larry Crowne* (2011), Production Design
- *Charlie Wilson's War* (2007), Production Design
- *Miami Vice* (2006), Production Design — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md)
- *Envy* (2004), Production Design
- *Bandits* (2001), Production Design
- *Bamboozled* (2000), Production Design
- *Any Given Sunday* (1999), Production Design
- *U Turn* (1997), Production Design
- *That Thing You Do!* (1996), Production Design
- *Nixon* (1995), Production Design
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *Heaven & Earth* (1993), Production Design
- *JFK* (1991), as Samuel · Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/jfk.md)
- *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), as Art Direction — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md)
- *Driving Miss Daisy* (1989), as Art Direction — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/driving-miss-daisy.md)
- *Last Rites* (1988), as Art Direction
- *And God Created Woman* (1988), Production Design
- *Morgan Stewart's Coming Home* (1987), as Set Decoration
- *Compromising Positions* (1985), as Set Decoration
- *Noon Wine* (1985), as Set Decoration
- *Between the Lines* (1977), Production Assistant

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