Arthur Max

Personal Info

Known For Art

Gender Male

Birthday 1946-05-01 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Arthur Max

Biography

Arthur Max (born May 1, 1946) is an American production designer. The native New Yorker began his career as a stage lighting designer in the music industry following graduation from New York University in the late 1960s. Those assignments included work at Bill Graham's famous music venue The Fillmore East in New York's East Village, and the historic Woodstock Festival of 1969. During the following decade, he designed concert lighting and festival stages for many rock and jazz artists. He was Pink Floyd's lighting designer during the bands' tours in the US and worldwide in the early-1970s. After studying architecture in England (earning degrees in the early-1980s from the Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal College of Art), Max went on to do several architectural design projects in London including an award-winning lighting design for the stage of St John's Concert Hall, a former 18th Century church in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London. He entered the British film industry as an assistant to several English production designers. First for Stuart Craig on Hugh Hudson's "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" and "Cal" (both 1984), then for Ashetton Gorton on Hudson's "Revolution" the following year. He commenced his own production design career in TV commercials for ten years from 1985 to 1995 (for such clients as Pepsi, Nike, Jeep, Coke and Levi's), which led to his ongoing associations with directors Scott and Fincher.

Known For

Art

2024
Gladiator II

as Production Design

2023
Napoleon

as Production Design

2021
The Last Duel

as Production Design

2021
House of Gucci

as Production Design

2019
The Last Vermeer

as Art Direction

2019
The Last Vermeer

as Production Design

2017
All the Money in the World

as Production Design

2015
The Martian

as Production Design

2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings

as Production Design

2013
The Counselor

as Production Design

2012
Prometheus

as Production Design

2010
Robin Hood

as Production Design

2008
Body of Lies

as Production Design

2007
American Gangster

as Production Design

2005
Kingdom of Heaven

as Production Design

2002
Panic Room

as Production Design

2001
Black Hawk Down

as Production Design

2000
Gladiator

as Production Design

1997
G.I. Jane

as Production Design

1995
Se7en

as Production Design

1985
Insignificance

as Art Direction