Biography
Henry Bumstead was an American art director and production designer whose career spanned nearly seventy years. He began as a draftsman at RKO Pictures in the late 1930s and worked as an art director or production designer on more than ninety feature films.
Bumstead won Academy Awards for best art direction for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and The Sting (1973). He received further Oscar nominations for Vertigo (1958) and Unforgiven (1992). He collaborated extensively with directors including Alfred Hitchcock, George Roy Hill and Clint Eastwood, for whom he designed thirteen films beginning with Joe Kidd (1972) and ending with Flags of Our Fathers (2006).
Born Lloyd Henry Bumstead in Ontario, California, on 17 March 1915, he died in Pasadena, California, on 24 May 2006.
