Lyle R. Wheeler
Highest Rated: 100% Laura (1944)
Lowest Rated: 18% Forever Amber (1947)
Birthday: Feb 2, 1905
Birthplace: Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
Former magazine illustrator and industrial designer who began his film career in the mid-1930s. Wheeler was named supervising art director at 20th Century-Fox in 1944 and promoted to the head of the art department three years later. His distinguished work adorned everything from lush period melodramas ("Gone With the Wind" 1939), to dank film noirs ("Call Northside 777" 1948) to swank musicals ("South Pacific" 1958). Son W Brooke Wheeler is a production designer who has worked on several recent J Lee Thompson films.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | 57% | Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows | Production Design | - | 1968 |
100% | 90% | The Best Man | Production Design | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Jesse James | Art Director | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 72% | The Story of Ruth | Art Director | - | 1960 |
31% | 59% | From the Terrace | Art Director | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Blue Denim | Art Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Beloved Infidel | Art Director | - | 1959 |
80% | 76% | Warlock | Art Director | - | 1959 |
36% | 26% | Return of the Fly | Art Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The Rookie | Art Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Woman Obsessed | Art Director | - | 1959 |
60% | 44% | The Sound and the Fury | Art Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 53% | The Gift of Love | Art Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fraulein | Art Director | - | 1958 |
86% | 82% | The Long, Hot Summer | Art Director | - | 1958 |
71% | 77% | The Young Lions | Art Director | - | 1958 |
30% | 46% | Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! | Art Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed | Art Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 75% | A Hatful of Rain | Art Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 73% | No Down Payment | Art Director | - | 1957 |
65% | 73% | Peyton Place | Art Director | - | 1957 |
67% | 87% | An Affair to Remember | Art Director | - | 1957 |
94% | 77% | The Three Faces of Eve | Art Director | - | 1957 |
88% | 36% | The True Story of Jesse James | Art Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Teenage Rebel | Art Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 67% | 23 Paces to Baker Street | Art Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best Things in Life Are Free | Art Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Brave Men | Art Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 39% | D-Day, the Sixth of June | Art Director | - | 1956 |
71% | 61% | Carousel | Art Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 70% | The Last Wagon | Art Director | - | 1956 |
71% | 73% | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Art Director | - | 1956 |
40% | 53% | The Revolt of Mamie Stover | Art Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 65% | The Miracle on 34th Street | Art Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Good Morning, Miss Dove | Art Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Untamed | Art Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 65% | The Virgin Queen | Art Director | - | 1955 |
78% | 62% | The Tall Men | Art Director | - | 1955 |
84% | 76% | The Seven Year Itch | Art Director | - | 1955 |
60% | 85% | A Man Called Peter | Art Director | - | 1955 |
85% | 58% | House of Bamboo | Art Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 43% | The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | Art Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Soldier of Fortune | Art Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 64% | A Woman's World | Art Director | - | 1954 |
20% | 68% | Desiree | Art Director | - | 1954 |
86% | 53% | Garden of Evil | Art Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Gorilla at Large | Art Director | - | 1954 |
75% | 65% | Demetrius and the Gladiators | Art Director | - | 1954 |
73% | 57% | There's No Business Like Show Business | Art Director | - | 1954 |
60% | 44% | Three Coins in the Fountain | Art Director | - | 1954 |
60% | 50% | The President's Lady | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Treasure of the Golden Condor | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 63% | A Blueprint for Murder | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Vicki | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Man in the Attic | Art Director | - | 1953 |
93% | 89% | Pickup on South Street | Art Director | - | 1953 |
85% | 78% | How to Marry a Millionaire | Art Director | - | 1953 |
88% | 83% | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Taxi | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Don't Care Girl | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 12% | White Witch Doctor | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 43% | King of the Khyber Rifles | Art Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Dreamboat | Art Director | - | 1952 |
56% | 76% | Viva Zapata! | Art Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Wife's Best Friend | Art Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Kangaroo | Art Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 49% | Phone Call From a Stranger | Art Director | - | 1952 |
67% | 62% | With a Song in My Heart | Art Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 67% | O. Henry's Full House | Art Director | - | 1952 |
75% | 52% | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Art Director | - | 1952 |
60% | 74% | My Cousin Rachel | Art Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Stars and Stripes Forever | Art Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 64% | The Secret of Convict Lake | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 50% | I'd Climb the Highest Mountain | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Half Angel | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 50% | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elopement | Art Director | - | 1951 |
63% | 73% | Fourteen Hours | Art Director | - | 1951 |
60% | 33% | David and Bathsheba | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 61% | The House on Telegraph Hill | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Rawhide | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 37% | Love Nest | Art Director | - | 1951 |
71% | 61% | The Desert Fox | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Anne of the Indies | Art Director | - | 1951 |
95% | 87% | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Art Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wabash Avenue | Art Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Heaven's Sake | Art Director | - | 1950 |
67% | 25% | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Art Director | - | 1950 |
91% | 71% | Broken Arrow | Art Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 62% | My Blue Heaven | Art Director | - | 1950 |
99% | 94% | All About Eve | Art Director | $10.2K | 1950 |
88% | 48% | Halls of Montezuma | Art Director | - | 1950 |
94% | 89% | The Gunfighter | Art Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I'll Get By | Art Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You're My Everything | Art Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mother Is a Freshman | Art Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Chicken Every Sunday | Art Director | - | 1949 |
96% | 86% | Twelve O'Clock High | Art Director | - | 1949 |
71% | 75% | House of Strangers | Art Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sand | Art Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Luck of the Irish | Art Director | - | 1948 |
89% | 76% | Kiss of Death | Art Director | - | 1947 |
82% | 78% | Gentleman's Agreement | Art Director | - | 1947 |
18% | 52% | Forever Amber | Art Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 53% | The Dolly Sisters | Art Director | - | 1946 |
89% | 69% | Anna and the King of Siam | Art Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Shock | Art Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don Juan Quilligan | Art Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Doll Face | Art Director | - | 1945 |
94% | 90% | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Art Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 27% | A Bell for Adano | Art Director | - | 1945 |
33% | 31% | A Royal Scandal | Art Director | - | 1945 |
100% | 90% | Laura | Art Director | - | 1944 |
98% | 92% | Rebecca | Art Director | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Made for Each Other | Art Director | - | 1939 |
90% | 92% | Gone With the Wind | Art Director | $198.7M | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 85% | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Art Director | - | 1938 |