Dale Hennesy (August 24, 1926 – July 20, 1981) was an American production designer and art director.
Dale Hennesy | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 24, 1926 |
| Died | July 20, 1981 (aged 54) |
| Occupation(s) | Production designer, art director |
| Years active | 1958-1981 |
| Children | Carolyn Hennesy |
Hennesy was the son of designers and layout artists for Walt Disney. He began working in motion pictures as an illustrator at Twentieth Century Fox, including illustration work on The King and I and South Pacific.[2] He won the Academy Award for best art direction for Fantastic Voyage (1966), for which he created sets depicting the interior of the human body. He was also nominated for his art direction in creating the futuristic sets of Logan's Run (1976) and Annie (1982).[3] He designed a $1-million tenement row street scene for Annie that was subsequently used in many motion pictures and was named Hennesy Street in his honor.[4]
Hennesy died suddenly of an abdominal aneurysm in 1981 during production of Annie.[5]
Selected filmography
edit- Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963, art director)[6]
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1964, art director)[6]
- Good Neighbor Sam (1964, production designer)[6]
- Fantastic Voyage (1966, art director)[6]
- The F.B.I. (1966, art director)
- In Like Flint (1967, art director)[6]
- Cover Me Babe (1969, art director)[6]
- Dirty Harry (1971, art director)[6]
- The Christian Licorice Store (1971, art director)[6]
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972, production designer)[6]
- Slither (1973, art director)[6]
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973, art director)[6]
- Sleeper (1972, production designer)[6]
- Time to Run (1973, production designer)[6]
- Young Frankenstein (1974, production designer)[6]
- Logan's Run (1976, art director)[6]
- King Kong (1976, production designer)[6]
- Fire in the Sky (1978, production designer)[6]
- Who'll Stop the Rain (1978, production designer)[6]
- Billion Dollar Threat (1979, art director)[6]
- The Competition (1980, production designer)[6]
- Wholly Moses! (1980, production designer)[6]
- The Island (1980, production designer)[6]
- Annie (1982, production designer)[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Stephens, Michael L. (January 1, 1998). Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-7864-0312-7.
Born in Washington, D.C., Hennesy...
- ^ "Set Designer Turned Reality Into Illusion". Los Angeles Times. July 27, 1981. p. II-2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- ^ "Hennesy Street". Warner Brothers. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
- ^ "HOLLYWOOD PUTS ITS MONEY ON ANNIE". The New York Times Magazine. May 2, 1982. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Dale Hennesy Filmography". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 18, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
External links
edit- Dale Hennesy at IMDb
- Dale Hennesy at AllMovie