John (Jack) Edward Otterson (August 25, 1905 – December 22, 1991) was an Americanart director. He was nominated for eightAcademy Awards in the categoryBest Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between the years of 1934 and 1953.

Otterson was born inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 25, 1905. He was educated atYale, where he was an editor of a campus humor magazineThe Yale Record with writerGeoffrey T. Hellman, writer and film criticDwight Macdonald and Hollywood photographerJerome Zerbe.^[1]

Otterson died inLos Angeles, California on December 22, 1991.

Otterson was nominated for eight Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:

• The Magnificent Brute (1936)^[2]
• You're a Sweetheart (1937)^[3]
• Mad About Music (1938)^[4]
• First Love (1939)^[5]
• The Boys from Syracuse (1940)^[6]
• The Flame of New Orleans (1941)^[7]
• Arabian Nights (1942)^[8]
• The Spoilers (1942)^[8]

• The Missing Guest (1938)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• Tower of London (1939)
• The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
• The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
• The Spoilers (1942)
• Arabian Nights (1942)

• Jack Otterson atIMDb

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