In Passing

Pasadena, Calif.

Henry Bumstead; movie designer

Henry Bumstead, the veteran Hollywood production designer who won Academy Awards for his work on “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Sting” and whose longtime association with actor-director Clint Eastwood kept him on the job into his 90s, has died. He was 91.

Bumstead, who reportedly had prostate cancer, died Wednesday in Pasadena.

In a nearly 70-year career that began as a draftsman in the art department at RKO in the late 1930s, Bumstead’s first picture as an art director was the 1948 Paramount drama “Saigon,” starring Alan Ladd.

Bumstead received his Academy Awards for his depiction of 1930s rural Alabama in director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 drama “To Kill a Mockingbird” and for re-creating Depression-era Chicago in George Roy Hill’s 1973 comedy-drama “The Sting.”

He also received Oscar nominations for his work on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 romantic thriller “Vertigo” and for Eastwood’s 1992 Western “Unforgiven.”

“Bummy was one of a kind,” Eastwood said in a statement. “He seamlessly bridged the gap between what I saw on the page and what I saw through the camera lens. He is a legend in his field and a cherished friend.”

Carmichael, Calif.

J.B. McClatchy; newspaper owner

James Briggs McClatchy, a fourth-generation owner and former chairman of the McClatchy Co. newspaper chain, died Friday at his home in Carmichael, Calif., of complications from recent surgery. He was 85.

McClatchy was the great-grandson of a founding editor of the Sacramento Bee and the son of the founder and first editor of the Fresno Bee. They are part of a group of newspapers that has become the nation’s second largest with McClatchy Co.’s recent $4.5 billion purchase of Knight Ridder Inc.

James McClatchy joined the Sacramento Bee as a general assignment and education reporter. After being recalled to Army duty for the Korean War, he returned to Fresno and worked as a city hall reporter, state capital correspondent, political writer and reporter in the Washington bureau.

After a disagreement about his aunt’s operation of the company, McClatchy left the family firm in 1964 and built his own small chain of newspapers around San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. He returned in 1980 to become chairman of the McClatchy board until 1987, when his brother took over. McClatchy then became publisher, with responsibility for general corporate planning and acquisitions. When his brother died in 1989, McClatchy returned to the board chairmanship until he retired last year, though he remained a vigorous presence in the company.