Marvin March

Marvin March was an Academy Award-nominated set decorator who worked on during the show's first season. He was active in both film and television during the 1960s before focusing entirely on feature film projects until retiring in 1998. In 2005, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Set Decorators Society of America.
== Career ==
=== 1964-1980 ===
Before being assigned to Star Trek, March decorated the sets on the short-lived CBS series The Reporter. His earliest credited film project was Francis Ford Coppola's comic drama You're a Big Boy Now, which starred Michael Dunn. 's Director of Photography, Andrew Laszlo, was the cinematographer on this film.
After Star Trek, March worked on such television shows as NBC's Adam-12 and ABC's It Takes a Thief. March then worked on (1969, featuring Jason Evers). His subsequent film credits included (1969, with James Gregory in a supporting role), (1970), (1971, which featured John Colicos), (1971, with David Huddleston and William Windom), (1972, starring Edward Laurence Albert), and Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask.
March was an assistant art director under production designer Harold Michelson on (1972). March again collaborated with Michelson as set decorator on the 1974 musical Mame (starring Lucille Ball and Bruce Davison) and (1980, featuring Leigh Taylor-Young).
After decorating the sets for such films as (1974, featuring James B. Sikking, with cinematography by Richard H. Kline) and (1975, starring William Lucking), March received his first Academy Award nomination for his work on (1975, featuring F. Murray Abraham), directed by Herbert Ross. March was also nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Ross' The Turning Point (1977; featuring Anthony Zerbe) and California Suite (1978). All three of these nominations were shared with production designer Albert Brenner.
March's other film credits during this period include (1976, co-starring Sam Gilman and John McLiam, (1976) (1976, featuring James Cromwell), (1976, featuring, Ned Vaughn and Ray Walston); the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (featuring Carel Struycken); and (1979, featuring Clyde Kusatsu, Vincent Schiavelli, and Ian Wolfe)..
=== 1981-1999 ===
March received his fourth Academy Award nomination in 1982 for his work on the musical Annie. He then applied his trade to such hit films as Flashdance (starring Michael Nouri, with cinematography by Don Peterman), (1985, featuring Richard Libertini and Kenneth Mars), and (1984). He also worked on (1986, featuring s Tim Russ.
Some of March's subsequent credits included (1986, featuring Don Stark), Sunset (starring Malcolm McDowell), The Prisidio (featuring Jenette Goldstein and Patrick Kilpatrick), and the first two Lethal Weapon films. He also appeared in (1988, starring Meg Foster), and (1988, with Marc Alaimo, Roy Brocksmith, Richard Fancy, Teri Hatcher, Clint Howard, Glenn Morshower, and Michael J. Pollard.
During the 1990s, March worked on several films for Paramount Pictures, including (1994, featuring Timothy Carhart and Stephen McHattie) and Stuart Baird's (featuring Len Cariou, Ken Jenkins, Andreas Katsulas, Tim Kelleher, Warren Munson, Richard Riehle, Eugene Roche, and Dey Young). He received his fifth and last Academy Award nomination for his contribution to Addams Family Values, a Paramount production which starred Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken. March shared this nomination with production designer Ken Adam, whom he also worked with on (1999).
March's non-Paramount projects during this period include (1992), How to Make an American Quilt (starring Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, and Alfre Woodard), and Dante's Peak (featuring Bill Bolender and Tzi Ma). He retired from set decorating in 1998 after completing work on (1999, starring James Cromwell and Clarence Williams III).
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