Robert Peterson

Robert Peterson

  • Birthday: 1909-08-15
  • Deathday: 1979-01-10
  • Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Art director under contract at Columbia, 1940-1947 and 1948-1964. A specialist in gritty black & white drama, he created realistic sets for several notable crime films and minor films noir in the 1950's. Afterwards mostly active in television.

Production

Count Three and Pray

1955

As Art Direction

The Fuller Brush Girl

1950

As Art Direction

Cover Girls

1977

As Art Direction

Ride Lonesome

1959

As Art Direction

A Woman of Distinction

1950

As Art Direction

The Garment Jungle

1957

As Art Direction

Zotz!

1962

As Art Direction

The Big Heat

1953

As Art Direction

In a Lonely Place

1950

As Art Direction

Human Desire

1954

As Art Direction

The Long Gray Line

1955

As Art Direction

Ladies of the Chorus

1948

As Art Direction

The Last Hurrah

1958

As Art Direction

Two Rode Together

1961

As Art Direction

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

1960

As Art Direction

Scandal Sheet

1952

As Art Direction

Decision at Sundown

1957

As Art Direction

Edge of Eternity

1959

As Art Direction

The Devil's Mask

1946

As Art Direction

Good Day for a Hanging

1959

As Art Direction

I'll Take Sweden

1965

As Art Direction

Strange Journey

1946

As Art Direction

5 Against the House

1955

As Art Direction

Saturday's Hero

1951

As Art Direction

The Edge of Innocence

1957

As Art Direction

A Night to Remember

1942

As Art Direction

Backlash

1947

As Art Direction

Cell 2455 Death Row

1955

As Art Direction

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1947

As Art Direction

Kiss Me, Kill Me

1976

As Art Direction

The Juggler

1953

As Art Direction

A Killing Affair

1977

As Art Direction

The Wreck of the Hesperus

1948

As Art Direction

The Walking Hills

1949

As Art Direction

Eight Iron Men

1952

As Art Direction

In Name Only

1969

As Art Direction

The Last Angry Man

1974

As Art Direction

The Legend of the Golden Gun

1979

As Art Direction

Meet the Stewarts

1942

As Art Direction

The Gene Krupa Story

1959

As Art Direction

A Matter of Wife... and Death

1975

As Art Direction

Night Editor

1946

As Art Direction

Alias Boston Blackie

1942

As Assistant Art Director

Scalplock

1966

As Art Direction

Counter-Espionage

1942

As Assistant Art Director

Dangerous Millions

1946

As Art Direction

Face of a Fugitive

1959

As Art Direction

Gidget Goes to Rome

1963

As Art Direction

The Shadow on the Window

1957

As Art Direction

The Phantom Thief

1946

As Art Direction

Knock on Any Door

1949

As Art Direction

The Outlaws Is Coming

1965

As Art Direction

Cop on the Beat

1975

As Art Direction

Underworld U.S.A.

1961

As Art Direction

Dangerous Business

1946

As Art Direction

Sirocco

1951

As Art Direction

Experiment in Terror

1962

As Art Direction

Tokyo Joe

1949

As Art Direction

Last of the Good Guys

1978

As Art Direction

The Courage and the Passion

1978

As Art Direction

Hokus Pokus

1949

As Art Direction

Fuelin' Around

1949

As Art Direction

The Last Frontier

1955

As Art Direction

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