Dale Hennesy

{{short description|American production designer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2018}}

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| name = Dale Hennesy

| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|8|24}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C.{{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...}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|7|20|1926|8|24}}

| death_place = Encino, California

| children = Carolyn Hennesy

| occupation = Production designer, art director

| yearsactive = 1958-1981

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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.{{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}} 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).{{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}} 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.{{cite web|title=Hennesy Street|publisher=Warner Brothers|access-date=October 10, 2020|url=https://www.wbspecialevents.com/portfolio_page/hennesy-street/}}

Hennesy died suddenly of an abdominal aneurysm in 1981 during production of Annie.{{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}}