Ben Edwards(1916-1999)
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Art Department
Ben Edwards was born on 5 July 1916 in Union Springs, Alabama, USA. He was a production designer and art director, known for Hanky Panky (1982), Lyndon Johnson (1987) and Phobia (1980). He died on 12 February 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 nominations total
Production Designer
Art Director
Art Department
- Born
- Died
- February 12, 1999
- New York City, New York, USA(pneumonia)
- Other worksDesigned the sets for the original Broadway production of "A Few Good Men".
- TriviaIn 1998, won a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Prior to this, he had been nominated for 12 Tonys without a win: in 1956, as Best Scenic Designer for "The Ponder Heart," "Someone Waiting" amid "The Honeys;" in 1957, as Best Scenic Designer for "The Walts of the Toreadors;" in 1958, as Best Scenic Designer for "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs;" in 1959, as Best Scenic Designer for "Jane Eyre;" in 1964, as Best Scenic Designer and, with collaborator Lewis M. Allen, as Best Producer (Dramatic) and producer of Best Play nominee "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe;" in 1974, as Best Lighting Designer for "A Moon for the Misbegotten;" in 1976, as Best Scenic Designer for "A Matter of Gravity;" in 1982, as Best Scenic Designer for "Medea;" in 1986, as Best Scenic Designer and as one of the co-producers of Best Reproduction (Play or Musical) nominee "The Iceman Cometh."
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