Housesitter Housesitter Housesitter is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein, and starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved architect by claiming to be his wife. Newton Davis (Steve Martin) is a struggling architect. After building his dream house for himself and his longtime girlfriend Becky (Dana Delany) in his hometown, he is crushed when she refuses to marry him. He is unable to bring himself to live in the house, and leaves it abandoned and with
George Goldie (architect) Edwin Child (1843–1911) joined him in partnership. In 1880 Goldie's son Edward (1856–1921) entered the partnership, having first been apprenticed in 1875. Edward Goldie's work includes Hawkesyard Priory in Armitage, Staffordshire, built for the Dominican Order 1896–1914, and the church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea, built in 1895. Goldie died at Saint-Servan, Brittany and was buried at Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets. George Goldie (architect) George Goldie (9 June 1828 – 1 March 1887) was a nineteenth-century English ecclesiastical architect who specialised in Roman Catholic churches. Goldie was born in York, the grandson of the architect Joseph Bonomi the