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2003:01:16:20:26:33 Obituaries CALIFORNIA B15 LOSANGELESTIMES By Dennis McLellan Times Staff Writer Mel Bourne, a three-time Academy Award-nominated production designer who worked on seven Woody Allen films, has died. He was 79. Bourne died Tuesday of heart failure at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said his son Timothy. In a five-decade career that included production design work for theater, television, commercials and feature movies, Bourne earned his three Oscar nominations for art direction for (1978, with Daniel Robert), Barry (1984) and Terry Fisher (1991). Bourne launched his career as a feature film production designer and began his seven-movie collaboration with Allen with the offbeat, 1977ro- mantic comedy.

In addition to Bourne provided visually distinctive designs for Midsummer Sex and Danny was a terrific art director and a wonderful Allen said in a prepared statement. made wonderful contributions to my Timothy Bourne said his father enjoyed the collaborative aspect of working with Allen, the ability to contribute to the creative and Gordon Willis and Woody Allen were like a triangle. He really enjoyed that intellectual Timothy Bourne said. Among other movie credits are of the of and He also was the production designer on director Michael pilot for the hit 1980s TV series acrime show whose color scheme became as famous as star Don beard stubble and hip wardrobe of pastel sports jackets and T- shirts. can blame all the pink and sea-foam green rooms on my said Timothy Bourne, a film producer based in Wilmington, N.C.

In a 1997 interview with the New York Daily News, Bourne explained his role as a production designer. job is to either build or choose real-life sets and then decorate them with furnishings, colors, he said. movie has a look, a visual personality. a collaborative Good writers, not directors, are what attracted him to projects, he said. job always starts with the he said.

I like the script, I do the movie. Simple as that. Obviously, the visuals are important, but I get inspired without a good In describing how he worked, Bourne said that after he accepted a job, he reread the script and made notes for an level or and compiled a list of the sets, determining which ones need to be built and which can be found in existing locations. He then would make his sketches, look at photographs of locations and work with the director and director of photography on set furnishings, art and color scheme. Regardless of the film, however, Bourne often managed to place the same single item somewhere in the background: a copy of Robert Bourne Born in Chicago on Nov.

22, 1923, Bourne grew up in New Jersey and New York. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University. After serving in the Army in World War II, he pursued his love of theater by landing job as an apprentice scenic artist and prop man at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J. Accepted at the Yale School of Drama, he studied scenic design on the GI Bill and met a guest lecturer Broadway stage designer Robert Edmund Jones with whom he began an apprenticeship. While working in the theater, Bourne became the designer on early television shows ranging from and to Hallmark Hall of and Goodyear- Philco He moved on to movies in 1957 as an associate art director.

He was assistant art director on the 1962 picture Miracle which was followed by many years of working in commercials until Allen gave him the opportunity to design In addition to Timothy, Bourne is survived by two other sons, art director Tristan of Los Angeles and Travis of East Hampton, N.Y.; and five grandchildren. Amemorial will be held in the spring in New York City. Mel Bourne, 79; Production Designer MEL BOURNE The three-time Academy Award nominee designed sets for seven Woody Allen movies. From a Times Staff Writer Robert F. MacLeod, an All- American football player at Dartmouth College in the 1930s who went on to fashion a career in magazine publishing, has died.

He was 85. MacLeod died Monday at a care facility in Santa Monica of complications from a stroke he suffered just before Thanksgiving. Born in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago, MacLeod was a standout on offense and defense (halfback) for the Dartmouth team coached by Earl Blaik. He was an All-American in 1937 and 1938. He placed fourth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1938.

MacLeod was also a gifted basketball player. A shooting guard, he made the All-Eastern team at Dartmouth. He briefly played professional ball for the Chicago Bruins, his family said. After his college football career, MacLeod was drafted first by the Brooklyn Dodgers, a former National Football League team. He was traded in the preseason to the Chicago Bears, where he played for legendary coach George Halas.

MacLeod played one season for the Bears before World War II, when he became a fighter pilot for the Marines, serving five years, mostly in the South Pacific. He was discharged with the rank of major. After the war, MacLeod decided not to return to football and started a career in magazine publishing, first at Liberty magazine and then at the Hearst Corp. By the late 1950s, MacLeod was vice president and advertising director of 13 Hearst publications, including House Beautiful, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics and Bazaar. He left Hearst in 1961 to become publisher of Seventeen magazine.

Two years later, he moved to California as marketing head of Subscription Television, an early television enterprise that had little success. MacLeod then joined Petersen Publishing Co. as editor and publisher of and quickly doubled its circulation. He was at from 1963 until 1994. Married three times and divorced twice, MacLeod is survived by his wife, Louise Jardine MacLeod of Malibu; sons Robert F.

MacLeod Jr. of Malibu, Edward J. MacLeod of Madison, and Ian Dana MacLeod of Seattle; a daughter, Merrill MacLeod Stendeck of Glen Head, N.Y.; and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at Malibu Presbyterian Church. Instead of flowers, donations may be made to the Robert F.

MacLeod Memorial Fund, Department of Athletics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. Robert F. MacLeod, 85; Football Star, Publisher Associated Press R. MacLEOD He played two sports professionally and got into magazine publishing after serving during World War II..