Harold Michelson Net Worth

Harold Michelson net worth is
$1.4 Million

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Harold Michelson (February 15, 1920 - March 2, 2007) was an American production designer and art director. In addition, he worked as an illustrator and/or storyboard artist on numerous films from the 1940s through the 1990s.

Net Worth	$1.4 Million
Date Of Birth	February 15, 1920
Died	2007-03-02
Place Of Birth	New York City, New York, USA
Height	6' (1.83 m)
Occupation	Production designer, Art director, Illustrator
Profession	Art Director, Art Department, Production Designer
Nicknames	Harold Michelson, Michelson, Harold
Star Sign	Aquarius

#	Fact
1	Harold Michelson was instrumental in the lay-out of the fore shortened "Irma, la Douce" Parisienne $350,000 "Rue Casanova" street stage set, as designed by the French production designer Alexandre Trauner. Michelson, consulting with Trauner, with Trauner's set designers, scaled the street set's architectural details, as illustrations, for the set designers floor plan, elevation drawings and architectural details. Calculating the plan of the three converging street building facades' false perspective was a major contribution in the sets layout; this was in addition to Michelson's set illustrations and script storyboard analysis illustrations. In Michelson's approach to the 'forced' false perspective analysis, the elevation and plan layouts were back (rear) projected to scales related to actual full scale facades. Harold Michelson's expertise on perspective principles, Michelson's Paris street stage set 'forced' false perspective was built on two stages at the Samuel Goldwyn Film Studio, located in Hollywood. The camera's lens calculated horizon line, positioned as an average height of 5'-6". The set plan was based upon a 'T' floor plan, with the street's forced 'false' perspective at the bottom of the 'T', and at the end tips of the top 'T'. The main center of "Rue Casanova" street set, constructed and designed at standard architectural scale, was positioned at the front center of the Goldwyn studio stage, with the right 'T' tip extending through an inside stage door connecting with the adjacent stage. This side was built with less forced perspective. The bottom part of the 'T' Paris street stage set had the most forced perspective built on the stage. With the floor ramped, raising off the wooden stage floor approximately 2'-6", at the back end of the 'T'. The set's street cobblestone treatment, had the cobblestones size and scale reduced appropriately to the false perspective. Michelson also dictated the heights of street miniature lamp fixtures; atmosphere extras, positioned in the middle of the 'T' rear reduced perspective street set, utilized dwarfs and midgets as background performers.
2	Harold Michelson, during WWII, flew as a member of a B-17 bomber flight crew over Germany on nightly bombing missions. Nazi Germany armament installations were their priority during the nightly bombing raids. More U.S. service men died in the Army Air Corps than the Marine corps while completing the required 30 missions, as airmen's chance of being killed was 71%.
3	Michelson was one of the professional Hollywood film cadre teaching at the Chouinard Art School's film program during the early 1960s. Jack Senter taught film and stage set design/drafting. Mentor Huebner taught life drawing. Tad Haworth taught story board/continuity sketching. Harold's class specialized in continuity script story board presentation, and a serious perspective projection layout system for set illustration. This projection system was plotted from a 1/4" set designer's schematic floor plan, pin pointing the camera's floor spotting position, projecting the perspective positions of the floor plan on a horizon line, factoring in the set's elevation wall corners, camera's lens height, to the illustration's horizon line, and then accurately depicting ceiling heights and the scale depth of field within the lens ratio. Conferencing with a director and the director of photography, the plan and plotting for camera determined how much of the set was required to be built, based upon the director's plan for the actor's scene motivation. Harold Michelson's Chouinard Art School's film illustration class was extremely popular, often attended by NYC illustrators making a move to the West Coast, intending on cashing in on studio illustration jobs. Prior to the 1990's computer programs, this perspective projection illustration system was the most accurate drawing tool of the production designer and art director. Presentation set design sketches were the producer's portfolio in raising financing for their film's expenses.
4	Some of his strikingly illustrative storyboards showing Moses parting the Red Sea for the half-century-old production of The Ten Commandments (1956) were featured in a two-page spread in the Summer 2013 issue of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Quarterly.
5	Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Art Directors Branch).

Art Director

Title	Year	Status
Dick Tracy	1990
Planes, Trains & Automobiles	1987
Spaceballs	1987
Terms of Endearment	1983
Mommie Dearest	1981
Can't Stop the Music	1980
Mame	1974
Two People	1973
Johnny Got His Gun	1971
Catch-22	1970
The Thousand Plane Raid	1969
Pretty Poison	1968
Gomer Pyle: USMC	1965-1967	TV Series 48 episodes
The Andy Griffith Show	1965-1967	TV Series 48 episodes

Art Department

Title	Year	Status
Duplex	2003	storyboard artist - uncredited
Death to Smoochy	2002	visual consultant
Matilda	1996	art department visual consultant
Three Wishes	1995	illustrator - uncredited
A Walk in the Clouds	1995	visual consultant - uncredited
Screen Two	1995	TV Series illustrator - 1 episode
Josh and S.A.M.	1993	storyboard artist - as Harold Michaelson
Hoffa	1992	art department visual consultant
Graveyard Shift	1990	visual consultant - uncredited
The Two Jakes	1990	storyboard artist
The Earth Day Special	1990	TV Special storyboard artist
The Fly	1986	art department visual consultant
Running Scared	1986	illustrator - uncredited
White Nights	1985	visual continuity
The Cotton Club	1984	illustrator - uncredited
Firestarter	1984	illustrator - uncredited
History of the World: Part I	1981	artistic advisor
Winter Kills	1979	production illustrator
Ravagers	1979	storyboard artist
Hair	1979	art director: California
The Big Fix	1978	production illustrator - uncredited
The Turning Point	1977	illustrator - uncredited
Cross of Iron	1977	illustrator - uncredited
The Master Gunfighter	1975	continuity artist - uncredited
The Day of the Locust	1975	illustrator - uncredited
Portnoy's Complaint	1972	assistant art director
Fiddler on the Roof	1971	illustrator - uncredited
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker	1971	production illustrator
Catch-22	1970	storyboard artist - uncredited
The Graduate	1967	storyboard artist - uncredited
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	storyboard artist - uncredited
Ship of Fools	1965	illustrator - uncredited
Marnie	1964	storyboard artist - uncredited
Wild and Wonderful	1964	illustrator - uncredited
Cleopatra	1963	storyboard artist - uncredited
Irma la Douce	1963	illustrator - uncredited
The Birds	1963	storyboard artist - uncredited
X-15	1961	storyboard artist - uncredited
General Electric Theater	1960	TV Series illustrations by - 1 episode
The Apartment	1960	illustrator - uncredited
Journey to the Center of the Earth	1959	illustrator - uncredited
Ben-Hur	1959	storyboard artist - uncredited
Teacher's Pet	1958	illustrator - uncredited
The Ten Commandments	1956	storyboard artist - uncredited
Track of the Cat	1954	illustrator - uncredited
Miss Sadie Thompson	1953	illustrator - uncredited / storyboard artist - uncredited
The Fountainhead	1949	illustrator - uncredited

Production Designer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Intersection	1994
History of the World: Part I	1981
Star Trek: The Motion Picture	1979
The Outside Man	1972
Johnny Got His Gun	1971

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status
Throw Momma from the Train	1987	continuity consultant
Quicksilver	1986	continuity consultant
WarGames	1983	continuity consultant
High Anxiety	1977	continuity sequences

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Graveyard Shift	1990	Man in Restaurant (uncredited)

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
The Boneyard Collection	2008	in memory of
All About 'The Birds'	2000	Video documentary special thanks
House of Cards	1993	thanks - as Harold Michaelson

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story	2015	Documentary	Himself
Something's Gonna Live	2010	Documentary	Himself
Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood	2006	Video documentary	Himself
All About 'The Birds'	2000	Video documentary	Himself
The Man on Lincoln's Nose	2000	Documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2002	Hollywood Film Award	Hollywood Film Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Production Design
1999	Lifetime Achievement Award	Art Directors Guild

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1984	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration	Terms of Endearment (1983)
1980	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration	Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)