A Manhattan born New Yorker, Arthur worked as a Stage Lighting Designer in the late
1960s and early 1970s in the music industry, and then, after studying
architecture in England and Italy, went on to do several architectural
design projects in London. He entered British film as an assistant to
several British Production Designers in the mid-1980s. First for Stuart
Craig on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, and Cal (both 1984) and then
for Ashetton Gorton on Revolution (1985). His Production Design career began with
TV commercials during the years1985-1995 for many different Directors, including Ridley Scott
and David Fincher, with whom he would go on to collaborate on feature films.
Graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Science degree in
1969, The Polytechnic of Central London with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1980 , and
the Royal College of Art with a Master of Arts degree in 1982.