Sam Comer

ArtCostume & Make-Up Jul 13 (died age 81) Topeka, Kansas, USA 1934–1965 (31 year career)

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Biography

Samuel M. Comer 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Known For

Film

Rear Window

Set Decoration

Film

Vertigo

Set Decoration

Film

Sunset Boulevard

Set Decoration

Film

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Set Decoration

Film

The Ten Commandments

Set Decoration

Film

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Set Decoration

Film

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Set Decoration

Film

To Catch a Thief

Set Decoration

Filmography

Crew (265)

Movies (264)

Black Spurs

Set Decoration

Billie

Set Decoration

Tickle Me

Set Decoration

The Sons of Katie Elder

Set Decoration

The Family Jewels

Set Decoration

Boeing, Boeing

Set Decoration

Red Line 7000

Set Decoration

Sylvia

Set Decoration

Apache Uprising

Set Decoration

The Carpetbaggers

Set Decoration

Young Fury

Set Decoration

The Disorderly Orderly

Set Decoration

Roustabout

Set Decoration

The Strangler

Set Decoration

The Patsy

Set Decoration

Lady in a Cage

Set Decoration

Law of the Lawless

Set Decoration

For Those Who Think Young

Set Decoration

Where Love Has Gone

Set Decoration

Come Blow Your Horn

Set Decoration

The Nutty Professor

Set Decoration

Hud

Set Decoration

McLintock!

Set Decoration

Donovan's Reef

Set Decoration

Love with the Proper Stranger

Set Decoration

Fun in Acapulco

Set Decoration

Who's Minding the Store?

Set Decoration

A New Kind of Love

Set Decoration

My Six Loves

Set Decoration

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

1963

Set Decoration

5.8

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Set Decoration

Hatari!

Set Decoration

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Set Decoration

Hell Is for Heroes

Set Decoration

It's Only Money

Set Decoration

Who's Got the Action?

Set Decoration

Escape from Zahrain

Set Decoration

A Girl Named Tamiko

Set Decoration

The Pigeon That Took Rome

1962

Set Decoration

5.3

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Set Decoration

One-Eyed Jacks

Set Decoration

Blue Hawaii

Set Decoration

The Errand Boy

Set Decoration

The Pleasure of His Company

Set Decoration

The Ladies Man

Set Decoration

On the Double

Set Decoration

Summer and Smoke

Set Decoration

Too Late Blues

Set Decoration

All in a Night's Work

Set Decoration

Cinderfella

Set Decoration

It Started in Naples

Set Decoration

G.I. Blues

Set Decoration

Visit to a Small Planet

Set Decoration

The Bellboy

Set Decoration

The Rat Race

Set Decoration

Heller in Pink Tights

Set Decoration

Walk Like a Dragon

Set Decoration

The Trap

Set Decoration

That Kind of Woman

Set Decoration

Destination Space

Set Decoration

Last Train from Gun Hill

Set Decoration

But Not for Me

Set Decoration

The Black Orchid

Set Decoration

Li'l Abner

Set Decoration

The Five Pennies

Set Decoration

Alias Jesse James

Set Decoration

The Jayhawkers!

Set Decoration

Career

Set Decoration

Don't Give Up the Ship

Set Decoration

Vertigo

Set Decoration

The Party Crashers

Set Decoration

Houseboat

Decorator

Houseboat

Set Decoration

King Creole

Set Decoration

The Matchmaker

Set Decoration

Hot Spell

Set Decoration

Teacher's Pet

Set Decoration

The Geisha Boy

Set Decoration

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

Set Decoration

The Space Children

Set Decoration

Maracaibo

Set Decoration

St. Louis Blues

Set Decoration

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Set Decoration

Desire Under the Elms

Set Decoration

The Devil's Hairpin

Set Decoration

Funny Face

Set Decoration

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Set Decoration

Wild Is the Wind

Set Decoration

The Lonely Man

Set Decoration

The Tin Star

Set Decoration

Omar Khayyam

Set Decoration

The Delicate Delinquent

Set Decoration

The Sad Sack

Set Decoration

Loving You

Set Decoration

Beau James

Set Decoration

Fear Strikes Out

Set Decoration

Hear Me Good

Set Decoration

The Buster Keaton Story

1957

Set Decoration

4.9

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Set Decoration

The Ten Commandments

Set Decoration

The Rainmaker

Set Decoration

Pardners

Set Decoration

The Scarlet Hour

Set Decoration

Hollywood or Bust

Set Decoration

The Vagabond King

Set Decoration

The Leather Saint

Set Decoration

That Certain Feeling

1956

Set Decoration

5.3

The Search for Bridey Murphy

Set Decoration

To Catch a Thief

Set Decoration

The Trouble with Harry

Set Decoration

Artists and Models

Set Decoration

The Desperate Hours

Set Decoration

The Court Jester

Set Decoration

Strategic Air Command

1955

Set Decoration

6.0

The Seven Little Foys

Set Decoration

The Rose Tattoo

Set Decoration

We're No Angels

Set Decoration

Run for Cover

Set Decoration

You're Never Too Young

Set Decoration

The Far Horizons

Set Decoration

Lucy Gallant

Set Decoration

Conquest of Space

Set Decoration

Hell's Island

Set Decoration

Rear Window

Set Decoration

Sabrina

Set Decoration

About Mrs. Leslie

Set Decoration

White Christmas

Set Decoration

The Naked Jungle

Set Decoration

Casanova's Big Night

Set Decoration

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Set Decoration

Jivaro

Set Decoration

3 Ring Circus

Set Decoration

Secret of the Incas

Set Decoration

Elephant Walk

Set Decoration

Alaska Seas

Set Decoration

The Country Girl

Set Decoration

Living It Up

Set Decoration

Knock on Wood

Set Decoration

Pony Express

Set Decoration

Come Back, Little Sheba

Set Decoration

Stalag 17

Set Decoration

Houdini

Set Decoration

Flight to Tangier

Set Decoration

Money from Home

Set Decoration

The Caddy

Set Decoration

Arrowhead

Set Decoration

Sangaree

Set Decoration

Those Redheads from Seattle

Set Decoration

Little Boy Lost

Set Decoration

Scared Stiff

Set Decoration

Forever Female

Set Decoration

Here Come the Girls

Set Decoration

Jumping Jacks

Set Decoration

Hurricane Smith

Set Decoration

The Turning Point

Set Decoration

The Greatest Show on Earth

Set Decoration

The Savage

Set Decoration

My Son John

Set Decoration

Sailor Beware

Set Decoration

Botany Bay

Set Decoration

Off Limits

Set Decoration

Just for You

Set Decoration

Son of Paleface

Set Decoration

Somebody Loves Me

Set Decoration

The Atomic City

Set Decoration

Road to Bali

Set Decoration

Denver and Rio Grande

Set Decoration

Thunder in the East

Set Decoration

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

Set Decoration

Ace in the Hole

Set Decoration

When Worlds Collide

Set Decoration

The Mating Season

Set Decoration

Dear Brat

Set Decoration

That's My Boy

Set Decoration

Red Mountain

Set Decoration

Peking Express

Set Decoration

The Stooge

Set Decoration

My Favorite Spy

Set Decoration

The Lemon Drop Kid

Set Decoration

Submarine Command

Set Decoration

Darling, How Could You!

Set Decoration

Sunset Boulevard

Set Decoration

The Goldbergs

Set Decoration

My Friend Irma Goes West

Set Decoration

Mr. Music

Set Decoration

Riding High

Set Decoration

Union Station

Set Decoration

Let's Dance

Set Decoration

No Man of Her Own

Set Decoration

Copper Canyon

Set Decoration

Fancy Pants

Set Decoration

Appointment with Danger

Set Decoration

Dark City

Set Decoration

The Furies

Set Decoration

Branded

Set Decoration

September Affair

Set Decoration

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Set Decoration

Top o' the Morning

Set Decoration

The Great Gatsby

Set Decoration

Samson and Delilah

Set Decoration

Alias Nick Beal

Set Decoration

The Accused

Set Decoration

The File on Thelma Jordon

Set Decoration

Dear Wife

Set Decoration

Rope of Sand

Set Decoration

My Friend Irma

Set Decoration

Streets of Laredo

Set Decoration

Sorrowful Jones

Set Decoration

Chicago Deadline

Set Decoration

The Great Lover

Set Decoration

Red, Hot and Blue

Set Decoration

A Foreign Affair

Set Decoration

Sorry, Wrong Number

Set Decoration

Whispering Smith

Set Decoration

The Emperor Waltz

Set Decoration

The Paleface

Set Decoration

Isn't It Romantic?

Set Decoration

The Big Clock

Set Decoration

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Set Decoration

Hazard

Set Decoration

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Set Decoration

The Sainted Sisters

Set Decoration

Sealed Verdict

Set Decoration

The Perfect Marriage

Set Decoration

Blaze of Noon

Set Decoration

Champagne for Two

Set Decoration

Unconquered

Set Decoration

Desert Fury

Set Decoration

Welcome Stranger

Set Decoration

California

Set Decoration

Variety Girl

Set Decoration

Road to Rio

Set Decoration

Suddenly It's Spring

Set Decoration

I Walk Alone

Set Decoration

Dear Ruth

Set Decoration

Saigon

Set Decoration

Ladies' Man

Set Decoration

Wild Harvest

1947

Set Decoration

My Favorite Brunette

Set Decoration

Where There's Life

Set Decoration

The Perils of Pauline

1947

Set Decoration

6.2

The Trouble with Women

1947

Set Decoration

Easy Come, Easy Go

1947

Set Decoration

Blue Skies

Set Decoration

Calcutta

Set Decoration

The Blue Dahlia

Set Decoration

O.S.S.

Set Decoration

To Each His Own

Set Decoration

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Set Decoration

Monsieur Beaucaire

Set Decoration

Cross My Heart

Set Decoration

The Bride Wore Boots

Set Decoration

Kitty

Set Decoration

The Stork Club

Set Decoration

The Man in Half Moon Street

Set Decoration

Frenchman's Creek

Set Decoration

No Time for Love

Set Decoration

Five Graves to Cairo

Set Dressing Supervisor

6.9

So Proudly We Hail

1943

Set Decorating Coordinator

Reap the Wild Wind

Set Decoration

The Lady Eve

Set Dressing Artist

Nothing but the Truth

Set Decoration

You and Me

Set Dresser

Here Is My Heart

Set Decoration

Television (1)

Outlaws

1960

Set Decoration

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