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Sam Comer

Scenographer | * 07/13/1893 († 81, 12/27/1974) | Topeka, Kansas (United States of America (USA))
Samuel M. Comer (July 13, 1893 – December 27, 1974) was a set decorator who worked on over 300 films during a Career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction. He guided his niece, Anjanette Comer into "the biz." ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama | Romance / Love

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An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style. ...

To Catch a Thief

Certification unknown

1955 | 3.7/5 | 1h 47min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. ...

Sunset Boulevard

PG

1950 | 4.2/5 | 1h 50min
Drama
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Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in th ...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

NR

1961 | 3.8/5 | 1h 54min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. ...

Vertigo

PG

1958 | 4.1/5 | 2h 8min
Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
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Awards & Nominations for Sam Comer

2x Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color 2x Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White 15x Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White 9x Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color 2x Academy Award for Best Production Design
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Movies with Sam Comer as Crew(242)

Art/Set Decoration1965 Young Fury
Art/Set Decoration1965 The Sons of Katie Elder
Art/Set Decoration1965 Tickle Me
Art/Set Decoration1965 Boeing, Boeing
Art/Set Decoration1965 Black Spurs
Art/Set Decoration1965 Red Line 7000
Art/Set Decoration1965 Apache Uprising
Art/Set Decoration1965 Sylvia
Art/Set Decoration1965 The Family Jewels
Art/Set Decoration1964 Law of the Lawless
Art/Set Decoration1964 Where Love Has Gone
Art/Set Decoration1964 The Patsy
Art/Set Decoration1964 Lady in a Cage
Art/Set Decoration1964 The Carpetbaggers
Art/Set Decoration1964 Roustabout
Art/Set Decoration1964 The Disorderly Orderly
Art/Set Decoration1963 McLintock!
Art/Set Decoration1963 Come Blow Your Horn
Art/Set Decoration1963 Love with the Proper Stranger
Art/Set Decoration1963 A New Kind of Love
Art/Set Decoration1963 Hud
Art/Set Decoration1963 Fun in Acapulco
Art/Set Decoration1963 The Nutty Professor
Art/Set Decoration1963 My Six Loves
Art/Set Decoration1963 Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Art/Set Decoration1963 Who's Minding the Store?
Art/Set Decoration1963 Donovan's Reef
Art/Set Decoration1962 Hell Is for Heroes
Art/Set Decoration1962 Who's Got the Action?
Art/Set Decoration1962 A Girl Named Tamiko
Art/Set Decoration1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Art/Set Decoration1962 It's Only Money
Art/Set Decoration1962 Girls! Girls! Girls!
Art/Set Decoration1962 Escape from Zahrain
Art/Set Decoration1962 The Pigeon That Took Rome
Art/Set Decoration1961 Summer and Smoke
Art/Set Decoration1961 All in a Night's Work
Art/Set Decoration1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's
Art/Set Decoration1961 The Errand Boy
Art/Set Decoration1961 The Pleasure of His Company
Art/Set Decoration1961 On the Double
Art/Set Decoration1961 The Ladies Man
Art/Set Decoration1961 One-Eyed Jacks
Art/Set Decoration1961 Too Late Blues
Art/Set Decoration1961 Blue Hawaii
Art/Set Decoration1960 The Bellboy
Art/Set Decoration1960 It Started in Naples
Art/Set Decoration1960 Visit to a Small Planet
Art/Set Decoration1960 G.I. Blues
Art/Set Decoration1960 Walk Like a Dragon
Art/Set Decoration1960 Heller in Pink Tights
Art/Set Decoration1960 Cinderfella
Art/Set Decoration1960 The Rat Race
Art/Set Decoration1959 The Jayhawkers!
Art/Set Decoration1959 Career
Art/Set Decoration1959 Alias Jesse James
Art/Set Decoration1959 Li'l Abner
Art/Set Decoration1959 Don't Give Up the Ship
Art/Set Decoration1959 That Kind of Woman
Art/Set Decoration1959 Last Train from Gun Hill
Art/Set Decoration1959 But Not for Me
Art/Set Decoration1959 The Five Pennies
Art/Set Decoration1958 Desire Under the Elms
Art/Set Decoration1958 Houseboat
Art/Set Decoration1958 I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Art/Set Decoration1958 The Matchmaker
Art/Set Decoration1958 Teacher's Pet
Art/Set Decoration1958 Vertigo
Art/Set Decoration1958 The Black Orchid
Art/Set Decoration1958 The Geisha Boy
Art/Set Decoration1958 The Space Children
Art/Set Decoration1958 King Creole
Art/Set Decoration1958 Rock-a-Bye Baby
Art/Set Decoration1958 St. Louis Blues
Art/Set Decoration1958 The Party Crashers
Art/Set Decoration1958 Hot Spell
Art/Set Decoration1957 The Devil's Hairpin
Art/Set Decoration1957 Wild Is the Wind
Art/Set Decoration1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Art/Set Decoration1957 Hear Me Good
Art/Set Decoration1957 The Sad Sack
Art/Set Decoration1957 Omar Khayyam
Art/Set Decoration1957 The Delicate Delinquent
Art/Set Decoration1957 Funny Face
Art/Set Decoration1957 The Tin Star
Art/Set Decoration1957 Beau James
Art/Set Decoration1957 Fear Strikes Out
Art/Set Decoration1957 Loving You
Art/Set Decoration1956 The Ten Commandments
Art/Set Decoration1956 The Leather Saint
Art/Set Decoration1956 Hollywood or Bust
Art/Set Decoration1956 The Rainmaker
Art/Set Decoration1956 That Certain Feeling
Art/Set Decoration1956 The Search for Bridey Murphy
Art/Set Decoration1956 The Scarlet Hour
Art/Set Decoration1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
Art/Set Decoration1956 Pardners
Art/Set Decoration1955 Strategic Air Command
Art/Set Decoration1955 The Court Jester
Art/Set Decoration1955 Artists and Models
Art/Set Decoration1955 You're Never Too Young
Art/Set Decoration1955 Conquest of Space
Art/Set Decoration1955 We're No Angels
Art/Set Decoration1955 The Desperate Hours
Art/Set Decoration1955 The Far Horizons
Art/Set Decoration1955 Lucy Gallant
Art/Set Decoration1955 To Catch a Thief
Art/Set Decoration1955 Run for Cover
Art/Set Decoration1955 The Rose Tattoo
Art/Set Decoration1955 Hell's Island
Art/Set Decoration1955 The Trouble with Harry
Art/Set Decoration1955 The Seven Little Foys
Art/Set Decoration1954 The Country Girl
Art/Set Decoration1954 Knock On Wood
Art/Set Decoration1954 The Naked Jungle
Art/Set Decoration1954 Secret of the Incas
Art/Set Decoration1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Art/Set Decoration1954 Living It Up
Art/Set Decoration1954 About Mrs. Leslie
Art/Set Decoration1954 Elephant Walk
Art/Set Decoration1954 Alaska Seas
Art/Set Decoration1954 Rear Window
Art/Set Decoration1954 3 Ring Circus
Art/Set Decoration1954 White Christmas
Art/Set Decoration1954 Casanova's Big Night
Art/Set Decoration1954 Sabrina
Art/Set Decoration1953 The Caddy
Art/Set Decoration1953 Road to Bali
Art/Set Decoration1953 Houdini
Art/Set Decoration1953 Little Boy Lost
Art/Set Decoration1953 Scared Stiff
Art/Set Decoration1953 Arrowhead
Art/Set Decoration1953 Forever Female
Art/Set Decoration1953 Stalag 17
Art/Set Decoration1953 Flight to Tangier
Art/Set Decoration1953 Here Come the Girls
Art/Set Decoration1953 Sangaree
Art/Set Decoration1953 Money from Home
Art/Set Decoration1953 Pony Express
Art/Set Decoration1952 Hurricane Smith
Art/Set Decoration1952 Botany Bay
Art/Set Decoration1952 Sailor Beware
Art/Set Decoration1952 Just for You
Art/Set Decoration1952 The Stooge
Art/Set Decoration1952 Jumping Jacks
Art/Set Decoration1952 Thunder in the East
Art/Set Decoration1952 The Savage
Art/Set Decoration1952 Come Back, Little Sheba
Art/Set Decoration1952 The Turning Point
Art/Set Decoration1952 The Atomic City
Art/Set Decoration1952 Son of Paleface
Art/Set Decoration1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Art/Set Decoration1952 Off Limits
Art/Set Decoration1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
Art/Set Decoration1952 Denver and Rio Grande
Art/Set Decoration1951 Ace in the Hole
Art/Set Decoration1951 The Mating Season
Art/Set Decoration1951 Dear Brat
Art/Set Decoration1951 Peking Express
Art/Set Decoration1951 Darling, How Could You!
Art/Set Decoration1951 When Worlds Collide
Art/Set Decoration1951 The Lemon Drop Kid
Art/Set Decoration1951 Submarine Command
Art/Set Decoration1951 My Favorite Spy
Art/Set Decoration1951 That's My Boy
Art/Set Decoration1951 Red Mountain
Art/Set Decoration1950 Riding High
Art/Set Decoration1950 The Furies
Art/Set Decoration1950 Let's Dance
Art/Set Decoration1950 Copper Canyon
Art/Set Decoration1950 Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Art/Set Decoration1950 Mr. Music
Art/Set Decoration1950 Dark City
Art/Set Decoration1950 Union Station
Art/Set Decoration1950 My Friend Irma Goes West
Art/Set Decoration1950 No Man of Her Own
Art/Set Decoration1950 Sunset Boulevard
Art/Set Decoration1950 Branded
Art/Set Decoration1950 Appointment with Danger
Art/Set Decoration1950 Fancy Pants
Art/Set Decoration1950 September Affair
Art/Set Decoration1949 My Friend Irma
Art/Set Decoration1949 The Accused
Art/Set Decoration1949 Alias Nick Beal
Art/Set Decoration1949 Top o' the Morning
Art/Set Decoration1949 Rope of Sand
Art/Set Decoration1949 Samson and Delilah
Art/Set Decoration1949 The Great Lover
Art/Set Decoration1949 Streets of Laredo
Art/Set Decoration1949 The Great Gatsby
Art/Set Decoration1949 Sorrowful Jones
Art/Set Decoration1949 Red Hot and Blue
Art/Set Decoration1949 Chicago Deadline
Art/Set Decoration1949 Dear Wife
Art/Set Decoration1949 The File on Thelma Jordon
Art/Set Decoration1948 Isn't It Romantic?
Art/Set Decoration1948 Sealed Verdict
Art/Set Decoration1948 Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Art/Set Decoration1948 The Emperor Waltz
Art/Set Decoration1948 The Paleface
Art/Set Decoration1948 Whispering Smith
Art/Set Decoration1948 The Big Clock
Art/Set Decoration1948 Miss Tatlock's Millions
Art/Set Decoration1948 Sorry, Wrong Number
Art/Set Decoration1948 A Foreign Affair
Art/Set Decoration1947 Easy Come, Easy Go
Art/Set Decoration1947 Ladies' Man
Art/Set Decoration1947 Desert Fury
Art/Set Decoration1947 Wild Harvest
Art/Set Decoration1947 My Favorite Brunette
Art/Set Decoration1947 Road to Rio
Art/Set Decoration1947 Unconquered
Art/Set Decoration1947 Blaze of Noon
Art/Set Decoration1947 The Trouble with Women
Art/Set Decoration1947 The Perils of Pauline
Art/Set Decoration1947 The Perfect Marriage
Art/Set Decoration1947 Welcome Stranger
Art/Set Decoration1947 Suddenly It's Spring
Art/Set Decoration1947 Dear Ruth
Art/Set Decoration1947 Saigon
Art/Set Decoration1947 Where There's Life
Art/Set Decoration1947 Variety Girl
Art/Set Decoration1947 I Walk Alone
Art/Set Decoration1947 California
Art/Set Decoration1946 The Blue Dahlia
Art/Set Decoration1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Art/Set Decoration1946 Blue Skies
Art/Set Decoration1946 To Each His Own
Art/Set Decoration1946 Cross My Heart
Art/Set Decoration1946 Monsieur Beaucaire
Art/Set Decoration1946 The Bride Wore Boots
Art/Set Decoration1946 Calcutta
Art/Set Decoration1946 O.S.S.
Art/Set Decoration1945 The Stork Club
Art/Set Decoration1945 Kitty
Art/Set Decoration1945 The Man in Half Moon Street
Art/Set Decoration1944 Frenchman's Creek
Costume & Make-Up/Set Dressing Supervisor1943 Five Graves to Cairo
Art/Set Decorating Coordinator1943 So Proudly We Hail
Art/Set Decoration1943 No Time for Love
Art/Set Decoration1942 Reap the Wild Wind
Costume & Make-Up/Set Dressing Artist1941 The Lady Eve

TV Shows/Series with Sam Comer as Crew(1)

Art/Set Decoration1960 Outlaws

Full Name: Samuel Comer
Born: Thursday, 07/13 1893 (July) in Topeka, Kansas (United States of America (USA))
Died: Friday, 12/27 1974 (December) in La Jolla (aged: 81)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Children: Anjanette Comer
Other names for Sam Comer (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Sam M. Comer"
"Samuel M. Comer"
Sam Comer frequently works together with these people:
Edith Head (193x, Crew)
Wally Westmore (192x, Crew)
Hal Pereira (166x, Crew)
Hans Dreier (74x, Crew)
Nellie Manley (69x, Crew)
John P. Fulton (56x, Crew)
Jerry Lewis (55x, Actor)
Hal B. Wallis (49x, Crew)
Ray Moyer (47x, Crew)
Gordon Jennings (42x, Crew)
Farciot Edouart (40x, Crew)
John Banse (1x, Crew)
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