
Birthday:
07-19-1915
Deathday:
10-29-1993 (78 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Biography
Elliot Scott was born on July 19, 1915 in London, England as Elliot Edward C. Scott. He was an art director and production designer, known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He died on October 29, 1993 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England.
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Inside the Labyrinth
Act like Self
event1986 star_border 7.6
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A behind-the-scenes look at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film, 'Labyrinth', featuring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Act like Self
event1984 star_border 7.4
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A documentary following the various stages in the production of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
Very Important Person
Production Design
event1961 star_border 5.5
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Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Production Designer
event1989 star_border 7.8
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In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
Labyrinth
Production Design
event1986 star_border 7.3
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When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.
Arabian Adventure
Production Design
event1979 star_border 5.9
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An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
Nine Hours to Rama
Art Direction
event1963 star_border 6.1
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José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
The Fifth Musketeer
Production Design
event1979 star_border 5
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King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...
The Americanization of Emily
Art Direction
event1964 star_border 6.7
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American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
The Watcher in the Woods
Production Design
event1980 star_border 5.9
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After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar eclipse.
Beauty and the Beast
Art Direction
event1976 star_border 6
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A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
The Secret Partner
Production Design
event1961 star_border 5.8
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A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Safari
Art Direction
event1956 star_border 5.6
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Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
Abdullah's Harem
Art Direction
event1955
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Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Assistant Art Director
event1954 star_border 5.3
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A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
The Miniver Story
Draughtsman
event1950 star_border 6
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The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
Black Narcissus
Draughtsman
event1947 star_border 7.5
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A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
Echo of Diana
Art Direction
event1963 star_border 5.2
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When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
A Touch of Larceny
Art Direction
event1960 star_border 5.8
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After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
The Old Curiosity Shop
Production Design
event1975 star_border 4.5
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A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Pope Joan
Production Design
event1972 star_border 5.9
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Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
Children of the Damned
Art Direction
event1964 star_border 6.1
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Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
The Haunting
Production Design
event1963 star_border 7.1
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Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
A Matter of WHO
Art Direction
event1961 star_border 6.2
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Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Art Direction
event1962 star_border 5.9
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In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
I Accuse!
Art Direction
event1958 star_border 6.1
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Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
A Warm December
Art Direction
event1973 star_border 6.4
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Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
A Doll's House
Art Direction
event1973 star_border 5.5
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Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
Beyond Mombasa
Art Direction
event1956 star_border 7.1
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An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
Odongo
Art Direction
event1956 star_border 5
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Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and circuses. When he hires a new veterinarian named "P.J. Muir," he does not imagine that the "P" stands for Pamela, played by the gorgeous Rhonda Fleming!
I Know Where I'm Going!
Draughtsman
event1945 star_border 7.1
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Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Warlords of Atlantis
Production Design
event1978 star_border 5.8
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Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell disabled, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advanced alien race that makes sailors their slaves.
Three Bites of the Apple
Art Direction
event1967
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A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.
The Scapegoat
Production Design
event1959 star_border 6.8
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An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
Dark of the Sun
Art Direction
event1968 star_border 6.6
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A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
The Safecracker
Art Direction
event1958 star_border 5.8
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Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Production Design
event1988 star_border 7.5
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'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Operation Crossbow
Art Direction
event1965 star_border 6.7
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Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
No Blade of Grass
Art Direction
event1970 star_border 5.3
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A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.
Gorgo
Art Direction
event1961 star_border 5.5
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Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Lucky Jim
Set Designer
event1957 star_border 5.5
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Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Thunder Rock
Assistant Art Director
event1942 star_border 6.1
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David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Edward, My Son
Draughtsman
event1949 star_border 6.5
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Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Production Design
event1984 star_border 7.3
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After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
The Pirates of Penzance
Production Design
event1983 star_border 5.7
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In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Cornwall with his boisterous shipmates, there are a few surprises in store for him!
Evil Under the Sun
Production Design
event1982 star_border 6.9
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An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Dragonslayer
Production Design
event1981 star_border 6.5
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A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
The Incredible Sarah
Production Design
event1976 star_border 5
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The legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's unconventional life and career are examined in this biopic. At an audition in 1860, the teenage Bernhardt proclaims herself the greatest actress of her time. Her career blossoms, as does her private life. But art and life don't stay balanced, much to the frustration of her lovers. The eccentric Bernhardt eventually does marry another actor, but it's her life on stage that ultimately gives her the most satisfaction.
The Inspector
Art Direction
event1962 star_border 6.7
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At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
A Canterbury Tale
Draughtsman
event1944 star_border 6.9
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Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Permission to Kill
Production Design
event1975 star_border 5.6
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Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
Eye of the Devil
Art Direction
event1966 star_border 6.1
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A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Invasion Quartet
Art Direction
event1961 star_border 4
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This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun. See if this fearless foursome can stomp their Fascist foes and get back to their game of cricket! Spike Milligan, Gregoire Aslan, and Thorley Walters co-star.
The Little Hut
Art Direction
event1957 star_border 6.5
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Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
Hook
Thanks
event1991 star_border 6.8
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The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Art Direction
event1964 star_border 6.1
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One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Tom Thumb
Art Direction
event1958 star_border 6.2
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A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
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