Lloyd Henry "Bummy" Bumstead was an American cinematic art director and production designer.
21 Facts About Henry Bumstead
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Henry Bumstead won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sting.
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Henry Bumstead was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Vertigo and Unforgiven.
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Henry Bumstead's career was interrupted by military service during World War II.
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Henry Bumstead worked at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s and at Universal Studios in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Henry Bumstead collaborated with George Roy Hill and Clint Eastwood on multiple films.
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Henry Bumstead was born in 1915 in Ontario, California, 35 miles east of Los Angeles.
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Henry Bumstead received a scholarship to the University of Southern California where he studied architecture.
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Henry Bumstead played football and ran hurdles for the track team.
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Henry Bumstead interned with RKO Pictures in 1935 while still a student at USC.
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Henry Bumstead received his first screen credit for set design for the 1944 feature The Story of Dr Wassell.
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Henry Bumstead's career was interrupted by service in the Navy during World War II.
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Later in the 1950s, Henry Bumstead worked on two Alfred Hitchcock features: The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo.
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Henry Bumstead received his first Academy Award nomination for Vertigo.
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Henry Bumstead won the Academy Award for art direction for his work on To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Henry Bumstead began a long professional relationship with Clint Eastwood on the 1972 western Joe Kidd.
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Henry Bumstead was 91 years old during the production, and the films were released after Henry Bumstead's death.
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Henry Bumstead was married to his wife, Lena, for 23 years.
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In 1996, Henry Bumstead received the Art Directors Guild's lifetime achievement award.
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Henry Bumstead was inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.
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Henry Bumstead was posthumously inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame in 2009.