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Jack DeGovia Jack Degovia began designing sets in the 1960s, at the University of San Francisco's theater group, the College Players. During the social upheavals of the Sixties he dropped out of school, failed at a succession of straight jobs, then found he could make a living in the city's lively theater scene by designing, building and painting sets. He tried acting (studying under director Hope Alexander's mother, Mara, at the end of her teaching career), and won a place as a supernumerary in the Actor's Workshop just before the decamped for Lincoln Center, but he was a much better designer. He freelanced, doing sets for the Lamplighters (The Emperor Jones and HMS Pinafore), Sankowitz-Golyn Productions (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, the Straight Theater (The Dossier and Julius Caesar), as well as productions for the Magic Theater of Berkeley and The Sacramento Civic Theater. He joined the American Conservatory Theater in the latter part of the decade and designed The White Whore and the Bit Player, Blood Knot, The Last, Sweet Days of Isaac, The Promise, and Time of Your Life. In the same period he began picking up television commercials and designed the television movie The People for Zoetrope Productions. In 1971 he moved to Los Angeles and began a career as a motion picture
and television production designer. His notable projects include: The
Winds of War, Red Dawn, Spacehunter, Roxanne,
Bette Midler's Gypsy, Die Hard, Speed, Volcano,
Die Hard with a Vengeance, Bowfinger and The Score. He is the past President of the Art Directors Guild.
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