death_place death_date birth_place othername birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
los angeles , california 30 march 1976 salt lake city , utah richard f. irvine 10 april 1910 1939-1953 richard irvine
 richard irvine art director
richard irvine

richard irvine -lrb- april 10 , 1910 -- march 30 , 1976 -rrb- was an american art director .
he was nominated for an academy award in the category best art direction for the film `` sundown '' .
he worked on 31 films between 1939 and 1953 .
in the early 1950s walt disney asked irvine to help construct disneyland .
he moved from 20th century fox to the walt disney studio in 1952 and became a senior figure at walt disney imagineering -lrb- wdi -rrb- .
until his retirement in 1973 , he headed design and planning for all disneyland attractions including the haunted mansion and pirates of the caribbean .
irvine became executive vice president and chief operations officer at wdi in 1967 .
irvine 's daughter maggie followed in her father 's footsteps and also joined wdi .
his son married kim thomas -lrb- now kim irvine , who currently is an art director at wdi -rrb- who is imagineering colleague leota toombs 's daughter .
irvine died in 1976 in los angeles , california after suffering an illness that prevented him from visiting the complete walt disney world resort , which opened in 1971 .
in his honor , one of the original walt disney world riverboats was named after him -lrb- see richard f. irvine riverboat -rrb- .
