Rites for Walter Scott; Oscar-Winning Set Decorator
Walter Scott, one of the most honored set decorators in motion picture history who won six Academy Awards and was nominated for 21 others, will be memorialized at a service Wednesday at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village. The longtime member and former governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was 82 when he died Thursday of respiratory complications.
Scott, a graduate of USC and the Chouinard School of Art, won his Oscars for “The Robe,” “The King and I,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “Fantastic Voyage,” “Cleopatra” and “Hello, Dolly!”
His nominations for Academy Awards included “Tora, Tora, Tora,” “Doctor Doolittle,” “The Sound of Music” and “The Sand Pebbles.”
He was hired by 20th Century Fox in 1931, the same year he started at Chouinard, and stayed with the studio until he retired in 1972. Even in retirement he worked as a consultant to the film industry, said Chuck Panama, a longtime Fox spokesman.
Survivors include a son, daughter and three grandchildren, who ask contributions either to the Motion Picture and Television Fund or the American Lung Assn.
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