Eminent Hollywood production designer, Robert F. Boyle, who created some of the most memorable scenes in cinema’s history, including Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint clinging to Mount Rushmore in “North by Northwest,” has died at age 100.
Over the years he worked with such legends as Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, Richard Brooks, Norman Jewison and many others.
Boyle is best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Some of his memorable scenes include the crop-dusting sequence with Cary Grant in “North by Northwest,” the seagull attack in “The Birds,” the Statue of Liberty sequence in “Saboteur” – and of course the already mentioned Mount Rushmore scene.
Some of his non-Hitchcock highlights include working on “Fiddler on the Roof” and “In Cold Blood.” He would receive Oscar nominations four times and was given an honorary Oscar in 2008 to celebrate his body of work.