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Ross Dowd

set decorator (1907-1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7369294 ↗
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Ross Dowd (April 17, 1907 – August 25, 1965) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

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“Ross Dowd” enters the record as set decorator (1907-1965). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ross, Dowd and decorator can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7369294. The first chronological checks are 1907 and 1965.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ross Dowd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.