Career
His association with famed director John Ford led to an Oscar nomination, shared with John McCarthy, Junior. and Charles South. Thompson, for Best Art Direction-Secretariat Direction, Color, for 1952"s The Quiet Manitoba This brought an upsurge in his film work and allowed Hotaling the opportunity to work on such A-list projects as Ford"s The Searchers (1956), Delmer Daves" 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and William Wyler"s The Big Country (1958). Hotaling died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.