Robert Checchi

Robert Joseph Checchi (April 20, 1926 – June 4, 1993) was an American set decorator.

Life and career Checchi was born in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Texas, graduating with a degree in architecture.

Checchi worked as a set designer for CBS after moving to Hollywood, California. He later won five Emmys and was nominated for four more in the category Outstanding Art Direction for his work on Benjamin Franklin, Cher, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Soap, Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, Blind Ambition, Sarah, Plain and Tall and Miss Rose White.

Checchi died in June 1993 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 67.