Biography
Dale Hennesy (August 24, 1926 – July 20, 1981) was an American production designer and art director.
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. 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). 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.Hennesy died suddenly of an abdominal aneurysm in 1981 during production of Annie.
Filmography
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Movies 25
Annie (1982)
The Competition (1980)
Wholly Moses (1980)
The Island (1980)
The Billion Dollar Threat (1979)
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
King Kong (1976)
Logan's Run (1976)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Sleeper (1973)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Slither (1973)
Time to Run (1973)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Christian Licorice Store (1971)
Simon, King of the Witches (1971)
Cover Me Babe (1970)
Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
In Like Flint (1967)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Under the Yum-Yum Tree (1963)
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Known ForArt
GenderMale
Birthday1926-08-24
Deathday1981-07-20 (54 years old)
Birth PlaceWashington, D.C., United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Art Direction, Color
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