James J. Murakami, the admired artwork director, manufacturing designer and set designer who earned an Emmy for Deadwood and an Oscar nomination for Changeling, one of many dozen movies he labored on for director Clint Eastwood, has died. He was 91.

Murakami died Dec. 15 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Middle in Los Angeles of problems from a fall, his spouse of 34 years, Ginger, instructed The truestarz.

Murakami served as an assistant artwork director for manufacturing designer Dean Tavoularis and director Francis Ford Coppola on The Godfather Half II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), One From the Coronary heart (1981) and Peggy Sue Obtained Married (1986).

He then partnered with manufacturing designer-art director Henry Bumstead on the Eastwood-helmed Unforgiven (1992), Midnight within the Backyard of Good and Evil (1997) and Letters From Iwo Jima (2006).

After Bumstead’s dying, Murakami dealt with manufacturing designer duties on Eastwood’s Gran Torino (2008), Changeling (2008), Invictus (2009), Hereafter (2010), J. Edgar (2011), Hassle With the Curve (2012), Jersey Boys (2014), American Sniper (2014) and Sully (2016).

Murakami additionally labored as an artwork director on Barry Levinson’s The Pure (1984); as an assistant artwork director for Alan J. Pakula on Comes a Horseman (1978), for Harold Ramis on Groundhog Day (1993) and for Chris Columbus on Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); and as a set designer for Wim Wenders on Hammett (1982), for Warren Beatty on Dick Tracy (1990), for Phil Alden Robinson on Sneakers (1992) and for Garry Marshall on The Princess Diaries (2001).

Murakami obtained a pair of Emmy nominations for his work on HBO’s Deadwood, profitable in 2005.

Born in Sacramento on June 4, 1931, Murakami was raised in Campbell, California, earlier than he and his household have been interned in a battle relocation camp initially of World Warfare II.

After the battle, the Murakamis headed to Venice, California, the place he attended Venice Excessive College after which studied on the Chouinard Artwork Institute. He spent the subsequent three years working for an architect as a delineator and guide earlier than touchdown a job as a set designer on the ZIV tv studios in 1958.

His spectacular physique of labor additionally included The Escape Artist (1982), WarGames (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), *batteries not included (1987), Midnight Run (1988), Rising Solar (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), I Love Hassle (1994), The Postman (1997) and The Scorpion King (2002).

Murakami retired in 2016 after engaged on Sully, and two years later obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Artwork Administrators Guild.

Along with his spouse, survivors embody his daughter, Patricia, and stepchildren John and Sandee.

Scott Feinberg contributed to this report.