Alexander A. Mayer

Alexander A. Mayer was born in Chicago and grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen. He served in the South Pacific for the US Navy, and settled in Los Angeles where he studied Fine Art under the GI Bill. He was an art director at Universal Studios for over 20 years, and he worked with the best of his era including Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Newman, Norman Lloyd, Lee Grant and Fred Astaire. He was also an actor, featured in A Christmas to Remember, and making an appearance in National Lampoon Goes to the Movies. He married in 1959. After a long and respected career, he succumbed to cancer in 1982.