James J. Murakami, an art director, production designer and set designer on numerous film and television projects, died Dec. 15 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91 and suffered complications from a fall, according to his wife.
Murakami earned an Emmy for his work on HBO’s
Deadwood and an Oscar nomination for the film
Changeling, the latter one of many films he worked on with director Clint Eastwood.
Among his many credits:
The Godfather Part II (1974),
Apocalypse Now (1979),
One From the Heart (1981),
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986),
Unforgiven (1992),
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) and
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006). Also, he was the production designer on Eastwood’s
Gran (2008),
Changeling (2008),
Invictus (2009),
Hereafter (2010),
J. Edgar (2011),
Trouble With the Curve (2012),
Jersey Boys (2014),
American Sniper (2014) and
Sully (2016).
