David Townsend (art director)

David Wood Townsend was an American art director.

David Wood Townsend was born in Hoskins, Wayne County, Nebraska, the son of Glenn Eli Townsend and Bertha A. Townsend. Grandson of David Wood Townsend and Mary Ellen Townsend. Greatgrandson of Eli Townsend and Abigial Mosher Townsend. In 1910, at the age of 19, Townsend was living with his parents and grandfather whom he was named after in Dallas, South Dakota. In 1913, Townsend married Lillian Francis Rennick in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He and Lillian had two children together, Edward Glenn Townsend and Harriet L. Ayers. In 1915 he was SecretaryTreasurer for his fathers Company, G. E. Construction in Norfolk, Nebraska and was still living in that area by 1917. In 1919 he had moved to Denver, Colorado. In 1926, he moved to Los Angeles, California and began work for the MetroGoldwynMayer Studios as an art director and set designer. On August 5, 1935 while scouting locations at Sonora Pass for the film, The Robin Hood of El Dorado, the car he was riding in with Lowell L. Ralph

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