James Trittipo


James Trittipo was an American television art director and stage set designer in New York and Hollywood, known for his designs of television variety shows including The Bing Crosby Show, The Frank Sinatra Show , , and An Evening with Fred Astaire. Trittipo won Art Direction Emmy Awards for the ABC Television variety series The Hollywood Palace and An Evening with Fred Astaire. He designed a set "evocative of waterfront pilings" for Rod McKuen's May 10, 1969 television special on NBC. He died of a heart attack at age 43.