William Flannery
William Edward Flannery (November 17, 1898 – January 25, 1959) was an American art director and architect for William Randolph Hearst. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Picnic. The main mansion was demolished, but part of the property survives as the Annenberg Community Beach House.
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William Flannery
- Name
- William Flannery
- Born
- 17 November 1898
- Birthplace
- Ohio
- Died
- 25 January 1959
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California
- Occupation
- Art director
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction and Color
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Flannery married silent film actress Mary Mercedes Campbell and they had a son Patrick John, born in 1927. During the Great Depression he became an art director.
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• Name — William Flannery • Born — 17 November 1898 • Birthplace — Ohio • Died — 25 January 1959 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California • Occupation — Art director • Years Active — 1937-1959
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William Flannery lived from 1898 to 1959 and was a production designer. William Flannery was born in 1898 in Staat Ohio. William Flannery died in 1959 in Los Angeles, California.
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• Film • Forlorn River (1937) • Sons of the Legion (1938) • Campus Confessions (1938) • Disbarred (1939) • Ambush (1939) • Persons in Hiding (1939) • Undercover Doctor (1939) • Million Dollar Legs (1939) • $1000 a Touchdown (1939) • All Women Have Secrets (1939) • Women Without Names (1940) • Untamed (1940) • Golden Gloves (1940) • North West Mounted Police (1940) • World Premiere (1941) • 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 (1945) • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) • Sister Kenny (1946) • Abie's Irish Rose (1946) • Arch of Triumph (1948) • The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950) • Valentino (1951) • My Son John (1952) • 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) • 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) • Television • Damon Runyon Theater (2 episodes, 1955)) • Playhouse 90 (1 episode, 1957) • The Ford Television Theatre (15 episodes, 1956-1957) • Father Knows Best (5 episodes, 1956) • Shirley Temple's Storybook (4 episodes, 1958)) • The Donna Reed Show (1 episode, 1959)
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