Ross Dowd (17 April 1907 – 25 August 1965; age 58) was a set decorator who worked on the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". This episode was the last project he worked on before his death. Dowd died four months after Leonard Mudie, making him the second of two Star Trek staffers who died more than a full year before the series premiered on television.
Career outside Star Trek[]
Dowd worked on numerous films and television shows from the early 1940s up until the mid-1960s. His earliest known work was as an art department assistant on 1941's Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles and Robert Wise). In the early 1960s, he served as set decorator on The Lucy Show (with casting director Joseph D'Agosta and starring Lucille Ball, Majel Barrett, Keith Andes, Joan Swift, Ralph Maurer, Arthur Tovey, Janos Prohaska, Sean Morgan, Michael F. Blake, and Eddie Paskey).
Dowd was nominated for Academy Awards on two occasions (both in the Best Art Direction category) for Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and The Facts of Life (1960).
External links[]
- Ross Dowd at the Internet Movie Database
- Ross Dowd at Wikipedia