John B. Mansbridge, Oscar-Nominated Art Director, Dies at 98
He was not on the list.
He worked for more than two decades at Disney, and his
prolific body of work includes 'The Love Bug,' 'Tron,' 'Bedknobs and
Broomsticks' and 'Frankenweenie.'
John B. Mansbridge, the two-time Oscar-nominated art
director known for his work on such films as Tron, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and
many other Disney films, has died. He was 98.
Mansbridge, who did everything from Citizen Kane (1941) to
Frankenweenie (1984) and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art
Directors Guild in 2006, died Monday, his family announced. He was a resident
of La Quinta, Calif.
Mansbridge spent more than two decades at Disney as a
designer and supervising art director for live-action features and received his
Oscar noms for the studio’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and The Island at
the Top of the World (1974).
In addition to Tron (1982), his lengthy list of Disney
credits as an art director/production designer includes The Love Bug (1968) and
its sequels, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), The World’s Greatest
Athlete (1973), Freaky Friday (1976), The Shaggy D.A. (1976) and the Tim Burton
short Frankenweenie (1984).
Mansbridge also won an Emmy Award in 1988 for outstanding
art direction for his work on the CBS series Beauty and the Beast.
A native of Geddes, S.D., Mansbridge served as an uncredited
draftsman on Citizen Kane for director Orson Welles and worked in the RKO art
department under six-time Oscar nominee Van Nest Polglase.
He was brought to Disney in the 1950s by Polglase’s frequent
collaborator, production designer Carroll Clark, a seven-time Oscar nominee known
for such films as Notorious, Mary Poppins and The Absent-Minded Professor. He
would prove to be Mansbridge’s mentor.
Mansbridge also worked on the 1950s TV show Adventures of
Superman and the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone.
Survivors include his son Mark Mansbridge; also an art
director and production designer.
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