Robert Checchi

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Robert Checchi
Born
Robert Joseph Checchi

(1926-04-20)April 20, 1926
DiedJune 4, 1993(1993-06-04) (aged 67)
Alma materUniversity of Texas
OccupationSet decorator

Robert Joseph Checchi (April 20, 1926 – June 4, 1993) was an American set decorator.[1][2]

Life and career

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Checchi was born in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Texas.[3]

Checchi worked as a set designer for CBS after moving to Hollywood, California.[3] In 1972, he was nominated for his first Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the television program The Glen Campbell Show.[4] He later won five Emmys and was nominated for four more in the category Outstanding Art Direction for his work on Benjamin Franklin, Cher, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Soap, Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, Blind Ambition, Sarah, Plain and Tall and Miss Rose White.[5]

Checchi died in June 1993 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 67.[3]

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