William Flannery

{{Short description|American art director}} {{hatnote group| {{for|the American bridge player|William Flannery (bridge)}} {{distinguish|text=William Flanary, better known as [[Dr. Glaucomflecken]]}} }} {{use mdy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox person |image = | name = William Flannery | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1898|11|17}} | birth_place = [[Ohio]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1959|1|25|1898|11|17}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]] | occupation = Art director | yearsactive = 1937-1959 }}

'''William Edward Flannery''' (November 17, 1898 – January 25, 1959) was an American [[Art director#In film|art director]] and architect for [[William Randolph Hearst]].<ref name=bio>{{Cite web|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~oflannery/bio/bioWEF18981959.htm|title=Hall of Fame (William Edward Flannery)}}</ref> He won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]] for the film ''[[Picnic (1955 film)|Picnic]]''.<ref name="oscars.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956 |title=The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-07-23|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

As an architect, his projects included a beachside mansion for Hearst's girlfriend [[Marion Davies]]. The main mansion was demolished, but part of the property survives as the [[Annenberg Community Beach House]].

Flannery married silent film actress Mary Mercedes Campbell and they had a son Patrick John, born in 1927.<ref name=bio/> During the [[Great Depression]] he became an art director.<ref name=bio/>

==Select art direction== ;Film {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} * ''[[Forlorn River]]'' (1937) * ''[[Sons of the Legion]]'' (1938) * ''[[Campus Confessions]]'' (1938) * ''[[Disbarred (1939 film)|Disbarred]]'' (1939) * ''[[Ambush (1939 film)|Ambush]]'' (1939) * ''[[Persons in Hiding]]'' (1939) * ''[[Undercover Doctor]]'' (1939) * ''[[Million Dollar Legs (1939 film)|Million Dollar Legs]]'' (1939) * ''[[$1000 a Touchdown]]'' (1939) * ''[[All Women Have Secrets]]'' (1939) * ''[[Women Without Names (1940 film)|Women Without Names]]'' (1940) * ''[[Untamed (1940 film)|Untamed]]'' (1940) * ''[[Golden Gloves (1940 film)|Golden Gloves]]'' (1940) * ''[[North West Mounted Police (film)|North West Mounted Police]]'' (1940) * ''[[World Premiere (film)|World Premiere]]'' (1941) {{col-break}} * ''[[True to the Army]]'' (1942) * ''[[Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch]]'' (1942) * ''[[Night Plane from Chungking]]'' (1943) * ''[[Dixie (film)]]'' (1943) * ''[[Going My Way]]'' (1944) * ''[[Murder, He Says]]'' (1945) * ''[[Incendiary Blonde]]'' (1945) * ''[[Duffy's Tavern (film)|Duffy's Tavern]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' (1945) * ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' (1946) * ''[[Abie's Irish Rose]]'' (1946) * ''[[Arch of Triumph (1948 film)|Arch of Triumph]]'' (1948) * ''[[The Sun Sets at Dawn]]'' (1950) * ''[[Valentino (1951 film)|Valentino]]'' (1951) {{col-break}} * ''[[My Son John]]'' (1952) * ''[[The Savage (1952 film)|The Savage]]'' (1952 * ''[[Never Wave at a WAC]]'' (1953) * ''[[Captain Scarface]]'' (1953 * ''[[The Shanghai Story]]'' (1954) * ''[[Phffft]]'' (1954) * ''[[Tarzan's Hidden Jungle]]'' (1955) * ''[[Picnic (1955 film)|Picnic]]'' (1955) * ''[[The Harder They Fall (1956 film)|The Harder They Fall]]'' (1956) * ''[[Full of Life]]'' (1956) * ''[[Space Ship Sappy]]'' (1957) * ''[[The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock]]'' (1959) * ''[[The Crimson Kimono]]'' (1959) * ''[[Going My Way]]'' (1944) {{col-end}} ;Television {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} * ''[[Damon Runyon Theater]]'' (2 episodes, 1955)) * ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' (1 episode, 1957) * ''[[The Ford Television Theatre]]'' (15 episodes, 1956-1957) {{col-break}} * ''[[Father Knows Best]]'' (5 episodes, 1956) * ''[[Shirley Temple's Storybook]]'' (4 episodes, 1958)) * ''[[The Donna Reed Show]]'' (1 episode, 1959) {{col-end}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0281228|William Flannery}}

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