“E. Jay Krause, An Emmy Award-Winning Art Director and Set Designer Who Worked on Many of the Biggest Variety Shows of the 1950s, ’60s and’ 70s, Has Died. HE WAS 98. Krause Died Saturday in Los Angeles. Over this Three-Decade Career, Krause Designed Sets for More than 180 Productions, Work On TV Specials Featuring Such”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Krause Died Saturday in Los Angeles.
Over this Three-Decade Career, Krause Designed Sets for More than 180 Productions, Work On TV Specials Featuring Such Iconic Performers As Bob Hope, Diana Ross, Mitzi Gayon, Mitzi, Mitzi. Jerry Lewis, Estther Williams, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, The Jacksons, DON KNOTTS, WAYNE NEWTON, CAROL CHANNING, PAT Boone and Rudolf Nureyev.
HE ALSO DESIGNED THE ORIGINAL SETS FOR FOR The Hollywood Squares an Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in Andreceived Two Prmetime Emmy Awards for Best Art Direction – One For The Diana ross Special and Another For The Mitzi Gaynor Special.
In 1983, Krause Founded Omega Cinema Props, Which Went On to To -Become One of the Industry’s Largest Independent Prop Housses. Alongside his wife, doris, krause spent more Thran Three Decdes Sourcing Rare and Distinctive Set Dressing from AROUND, COLLECTING A COLLECTION THAT REMAINS INTDUCTION.
A los Angles Native, Krause Served with Distinction in the US Navy Durying World War II, Taking Part in the Harrowing 82-Day Battle of Okinawa. After his military service, he attached peperdine university, WHERE HE STUDIED Design, and He Began His Professional Career at NBC in 1951.
He is survied by his daughter and Son-in-law, carson and barry pritchard; Two Grandchildren; and Two Great-Grandchildren.