death_date birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
13 april 1977 april 4 , 1909 1944-1966 frank hotaling
 frank hotaling art director
frank hotaling

frank hotaling -lrb- april 4 , 1909 - april 13 , 1977 -rrb- was an american art director , born in new york city , whose career encompassed over 100 films , mostly b movies .
his association with famed director john ford led to an oscar nomination , shared with john mccarthy , jr. and charles s. thompson , for best art direction-set direction , color , for 1952 's `` the quiet man '' .
this brought an upsurge in his film work and allowed hotaling the opportunity to work on such a-list projects as ford 's `` the searchers '' -lrb- 1956 -rrb- , delmer daves ' '' '' -lrb- 1957 -rrb- , and william wyler 's `` the big country '' -lrb- 1958 -rrb- .
hotaling died in woodland hills , los angeles , california .
