David S. Garber (1898–1984) was an American
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
.
[Kinnard & Crnkovich p.22] He designed the sets for more than sixty film productions between 1926 and 1957, a large number of them
westerns
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.
Selected filmography
* ''
Fighting with Buffalo Bill
''Fighting With Buffalo Bill'' is a 1926 American silent Western film serial directed by Ray Taylor for Universal Pictures. The film is now considered to be lost.
Plot
Cast
* Wallace MacDonald as Ned Wheeler
* Elsa Benham as Doris Carber ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Denver Dude
''The Denver Dude'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey, and Robert McKim. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, ...
'' (1927)
* ''
Desert Dust
''Desert Dust'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by William Wyler and starring Ted Wells, Lotus Thompson and Bruce Gordon.
The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber.
Cast
* Ted Wells as Frank Fortune
...
'' (1927)
* ''
The Fighting Three'' (1927)
* ''
Hard Fists'' (1927)
* ''
Thunder Riders'' (1928)
* ''
The Mounted Stranger'' (1930)
* ''
70,000 Witnesses
''70,000 Witnesses'' is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Ralph Murphy, written by Garrett Fort, Robert N. Lee, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson, and starring Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, ...
'' (1932)
* ''
I Love That Man
''I Love That Man'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by C. Graham Baker, Casey Robinson and Gene Towne. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Lew Cody, Warren Hymer, G ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Private Scandal
''Private Scandal'' is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster an ...
'' (1934)
* ''
Gift of Gab'' (1934)
* ''
Here Comes the Groom Here Comes the Groom may refer to:
* Here Comes the Groom (1934 film)
''Here Comes the Groom'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick and written by Richard Flournoy and Casey Robinson. The film stars Jack Haley, ...
'' (1934)
* ''
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...
'' (1935)
* ''
Rocky Mountain Mystery'' (1935)
* ''
Desert Gold Desert Gold may refer to:
* ''Geraea canescens'', a wildflower also known as Desert Sunflower
* Desert Gold (horse), a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse
**Desert Gold (1919 Australian film), ''Desert Gold'' (1919 Australian film), an Australian fil ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Drift Fence
A drift fence is any long, continuous fence used to control the movement of animals in a particular open range, or to collect animals for research.
Use
Drift fences were used in the Texas Panhandle from 1882 to 1887 to control "cattle drift"— ...
'' (1936)
* ''
The Halliday Brand'' (1957)
References
Bibliography
* Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. ''The Films of Fay Wray''. McFarland, 2015.
External links
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1898 births
1984 deaths
American art directors
People from Indiana
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