Anton Furst

Anton Furst (born Anthony Francis Furst) (May 6, 1944 – November 24, 1991) was a distinguished production designer who won an Oscar for designing the Batmobile and the noirish nightmare version of Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman (1989).

Born in London, Furst trained at the Royal College of Art, London, he gained high praise for his work on Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves (1984). He went on to create convincing Vietnam War settings, without leaving England, for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), and in 1991 designed the themes for the Planet Hollywood restaurant in New York. His final credited film was Awakenings (1990).

Suicide

He had dated Beverly D'Angelo and after they broke up, Furst committed suicide by jumping from about the eighth floor of a parking structure in Los Angeles.

Sources

• The New York Times

External links

• Anton Furst at the Internet Movie Database

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