Queer Places:
1742 Nichols Canyon Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Maurice "Zuby" Zuberano was born on October 5, 1911 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as Maurice Ernest Zuberano. He is known for his work on West Side Story (1961), Dick Tracy (1990) and The Sound of Music (1965).
Over the course of his decades-long career, Maurice Zuberano worked as a set designer, illustrator, and continuity sketch artist alongside some of Hollywood's most famous directors, notably Orson Welles. Known as "Zubie" to his friends and peers, he came to Hollywood in 1935 to work on Follow the Fleet, which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Films on which he has worked include Citizen Kane (1941), Gunga Din (1939), The Sand Pebbles (1966), and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Zuberano also worked as the production designer on The Captive City (1952). On the films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965), Zuberano was the second unit director on the aerial opening sequences.
He died on July 2, 1994 in Los Angeles County, California.
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