{{short description|American production designer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Dale Hennesy | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|8|24}} | birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Stephens|first=Michael L.|title=Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXZZAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1998|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0312-7|page=160|quote=Born in Washington, D.C., Hennesy...}}</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|7|20|1926|8|24}} | death_place = [[Encino, California]] | children = [[Carolyn Hennesy]] | occupation = Production designer, art director | years_active = 1958-1981 }}
'''Dale Hennesy''' (August 24, 1926 – July 20, 1981) was an American [[production designer]] and [[Art director#In film|art director]].
==Career== 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 (1956 film)|The King and I]]'' and ''[[South Pacific (1958 film)|South Pacific]]''.<ref name=LATobit>{{cite news|title=Set Designer Turned Reality Into Illusion|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 27, 1981|page=II-2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60863798/dale-hennesy/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
He won the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|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 (film)|Logan's Run]]'' (1976) and ''[[Annie (1982 film)|Annie]]'' (1982).<ref name="oscars.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |title=The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners |access-date=July 23, 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hennesy Street|publisher=Warner Brothers|access-date=October 10, 2020|url=https://www.wbspecialevents.com/portfolio_page/hennesy-street/}}</ref>
==Death== Hennesy died suddenly of an abdominal aneurysm in 1981 during production of ''Annie''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/02/magazine/hollywood-puts-its-money-on-annie.html | title=HOLLYWOOD PUTS ITS MONEY ON ANNIE | publisher=The New York Times Magazine | date=May 2, 1982 | access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''[[Under the Yum Yum Tree]]'' (1963, art director)<ref name=BFI>{{cite web|title=Dale Hennesy Filmography|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=October 10, 2020|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bab3cbbef|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918043959/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bab3cbbef|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 18, 2017}}</ref> * ''[[John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!]]'' (1964, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Good Neighbor Sam]]'' (1964, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]'' (1966, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]'' (1966, art director) * ''[[In Like Flint]]'' (1967, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Cover Me Babe]]'' (1969, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' (1971, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[The Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)|Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)]]'' (1972, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Slither (1973 film)|Slither]]'' (1973, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Battle for the Planet of the Apes]]'' (1973, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Sleeper (1973 film)|Sleeper]]'' (1972, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Time to Run]]'' (1973, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' (1974, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Logan's Run (film)|Logan's Run]]'' (1976, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[King Kong (1976 film)|King Kong]]'' (1976, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Fire in the Sky]]'' (1978, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Who'll Stop the Rain]]'' (1978, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Billion Dollar Threat]]'' (1979, art director)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[The Competition (1980 film)|The Competition]]'' (1980, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Wholly Moses!]]'' (1980, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[The Island (1980 film)|The Island]]'' (1980, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> * ''[[Annie (1982 film)|Annie]]'' (1982, production designer)<ref name=BFI/> {{Div col end}}
==See also== * [[Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0377322}}
{{Academy Award Best Production Design}} {{Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame (2000s)}} {{Authority control}}
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