Biografie von Robert Rowe PADDOCK (1914)

Birth place: Mansfield, OH

Addresses: NYC; Mavis Glen, Greenwich, CT

Profession: Theatrical designer, landscape painter

Studied: Cleveland Sch. Art; Western Reserve Univ. (B.S.)

Exhibited: Detroit Art Market, 1939; CGA, 1937; Butler AI, 1937; CMA, 1934-37.

Comments: Positions: instr., Television Workshop, 1950; television des., CBS-TV, NYC, 1951-57; pres., United Scenic Artists, 1953-58; bd. of gov., Television Acad., 1955-58. Award for best live commercial, "Pillsbury's Xmas Show," 1957. Des. for theatrical productions: Ballet "Pinocchio," 1939; "Robin Hood," 1940; "Burlesque," 1946; "Alice in Wonderland," 1947; tech. dir., "Winged Victory;" Reading Bi-Centennial, 1949; J.L. Hudson's Fashionscope, 1948-50; "Macbeth," Met. Opera, 1959.

Sources: WW59; WW47.