Sidney Ullman

Sidney Mayer Ullman (born May 11, 1871 in Natchez, Mississippi; died May 8, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) was an architect, set designer and art director.

Ullman was the son of Birmingham hardware dealer and poet Samuel Ullman. He practiced architecture here, sometimes with Thomas Walter III, between 1899 and 1916. He married the former Retta Lehmann and had two children, Joseph and Samuel.

In 1917 Ullman moved to Los Angeles, California and continued to work as an architect. He got his first film credits in 1920. In 1935 he was one of the directors of the Cinemagundi Club of Hollywood.

Ullman was credited as art director for a dozen feature films in the 1920s and 1930s. He died in 1938 of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at Grand View Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Notable buildings

• Lee Bradley residence (1907), with Thomas Walter III

Film credits

• "Alias Jimmy Valentine" (1920), art director
• "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" (1920), art director
• "Are All Men Alike?" (1920), art director
• "The Greater Claim" (1920), art director
• "The Lure of Youth" (1921), interior architect
• "Extravagance" (1921), art director
• "Puppets of Fate" (1921), art director
• "Big Game" (1921), art director
• "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923), art director
• "The Scarlet Letter" (1926), settings
• "Blarney" (1926), sets
• "Dixiana" (1930), uncredited art director
• "Cimarron" (1931), uncredited assistant art director
• "Roar of the Dragon" (1933), uncredited assistant art director
• "The Lost Patrol" (1934), art director
• "The President Vanishes" (1934), art director
• "Wanted! Jane Turner" (1936), associate art director
• "Don't Turn 'Em Loose" (1936), associate art director
• "Sea Devils" (1937), associate art director

External links

• Sidney Ullman at IMDB.com