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8 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 6 RESHOOTS B Y D AV I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R 20 Years Ago in PERSPECTIVE In 1961, Bummy left Paramount for a steady position at Universal that he was to retain for twenty years. His work with director Robert Mulligan led to his design of the film To Kill a Mockingbird, the subject of the sketch shown above. In 1972, Bumstead met Clint Eastwood as an actor on a film, and went on to design a remarkable string of 13 films with him. He won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and The Sting (1973). He was also nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Vertigo (1958) and Unforgiven (1992). Both Art Director Jack Taylor Jr. and then Guild President Thomas Walsh paid tribute to Bumstead in the issue, and both described him as not just a great designer, but a true gentleman. The cover story of the August-September 2006 issue featured a tribute to Production Designer Henry Bumstead, who passed away the previous May at the age of 91. "Bummy," a renowned and much loved member of the Guild, received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 and was inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame in 2007. Bumstead had a career spanning almost seventy years and designed over 90 feature films. Like so many designers in the early days of Hollywood, he came out of USC with a degree in architecture and found his way into a studio Art Department, in his case RKO, as a draftsman. Following a stint in the Navy in World War Two, Bumstead joined Paramount Pictures, where he worked through the 1950s. It was there that he joined up with director Alfred Hitchcock for the films The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and Vertigo (1958) A. THE STREET SCENE FROM TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HENRY BUMSTEAD, PRODUCTION DESIGNER. A