Jack Fisk

For the fictional character, see Jack Fisk (Battlestar Galactica).

Jack Fisk
Fisk with Schuyler Fisk and Madison Fisk at a ceremony for Sissy Spacek to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in August 2011
Born	(1946-12-19) December 19, 1946 Canton, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Set designer, art director, film director
Years active	1971—present

Jack Fisk (born December 19, 1946) is an American film production designer, art director and film director.

Career

Fisk was art director on Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), in which his wife Sissy Spacek played the title role. He frequently collaborates with directors Terrence Malick and David Lynch (whom he has known since childhood). His production design and art director credits include all six of Malick's feature films and Lynch's The Straight Story (1999) and Mulholland Drive (2001). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. He received his second Academy Award nomination for the film The Revenant at the 88th Academy Awards.

Fisk appeared in Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) as the Man in the Planet, and the film's credits give "special thanks" to him and to Sissy Spacek (who reputedly held the slates between takes).

Personal life

Fisk met his wife, Spacek, when working on Terrence Malick's 1973 movie Badlands, in which she portrayed the aloof and distant version of Caril Ann Fugate. The couple married on April 12, 1974. They had two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born 1982), also an actress, and Madison Fisk, a painter (born 1988).

Filmography

Year	Title	Production role	Director
1971	The Peace Killers	Gaffer	Douglas Schwartz
1971	Angels Hard as They Come	Art director	Joe Viola
1972	Cool Breeze	Art director	Barry Pollack
1973	Messiah of Evil	Art director	Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz
1973	Terminal Island	Art director	Stephanie Rothman
1973	The Slams	Art director	Jonathan Kaplan
1973	Badlands	Art director	Terrence Malick
1974	Phantom of the Paradise	Production designer	Brian De Palma
1975	Darktown Strutters	Production designer	William Witney
1976	Vigilante Force	Art director	George Armitage
1976	Carrie	Art director	Brian De Palma
1977	Death Game	Production designer	Peter S. Traynor
1977	Eraserhead	Actor	David Lynch
1978	Days of Heaven	Production designer	Terrence Malick
1978	Movie Movie	Production designer	Stanley Donen
1980	Heart Beat	Production designer	John Byrum
1981	Raggedy Man	Director	Jack Fisk
1986	Violets Are Blue	Director	Jack FIsk
1990	Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?	Director	Jack Fisk
1991	Final Verdict	Director	Jack Fisk
1992	On the Air	Director (2 episodes)	David Lynch and Mark Frost (creators)
1998	The Thin Red Line	Art Director	Terrence Malick
1999	The Straight Story	Production designer	David Lynch
2001	Mulholland Drive	Production designer	David Lynch
2005	The New World	Production designer	Terrence Malick
2007	The Invasion	Production designer	Oliver Hirschbiegel
2007	There Will Be Blood	Production designer	Paul Thomas Anderson
2011	Water for Elephants	Production designer	Francis Lawrence
2011	The Tree of Life	Production designer	Terrence Malick
2012	The Master	Production designer	Paul Thomas Anderson
2012	To the Wonder	Production designer	Terrence Malick
2015	Knight of Cups	Production designer	Terrence Malick
2015	The Revenant	Production designer	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2016	Weightless	Production designer	Terrence Malick

External links

• Jack Fisk at IMDb
• Eraserhead Interview