Stan Jolley

Stan Jolley Jr. (born May 17, 1926 in New York City , † June 4, 2012 in Rancho Mirage , California ) was an American art director and production designer .

Life

Stan Jolley was the son of actor I. Stanford Jolley . He first grew up in New York City and moved to Hollywood with his family in the 1930s . During World War II he served in the United States Navy . While in college , he was already working as a trainee production designer for Warner Bros. He graduated from the University of Southern California 's School of Architecture with an industrial design degree . He then worked for 21st Century Fox and then moved to the Walt Disney Company . There he worked on the original Disneyland Resort in Anaheim , California . This field of activity also included the designs for various roller coasters and buildings in Frontierland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.

By 1960, Jolley was still working for Disney, including the Oscar-nominated documentary - short film Donald in Mathmagic Country (1959), the miniseries The Nine Lives of Sheriff Baca (1958) and the family drama Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) . He then worked for American television, in particular for television series such as Mr. Ed and Mini-Max . In the latter, he was responsible for the opening sequence in the pilot, which was later adopted for the television series. As a production designer, he worked on the biographical action film The Great from the Dark and the crime series MacGyver .

His films as art director and production designer include Caddyshack - Wahnsinn ohne Handicap (1980), Die Kadetten von Bunker Hill (1981) and Die Grasharfe (1995). For the film drama The Only Witness (1985) he received an Oscar nomination in the category “Best Production Design” .

Stan Jolley died of stomach cancer at the age of 86 .

Filmography

• 1959: Donald in Mathmagic Land (German DVD title Donald in the Land of Math Magic )
• 1959: The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
• 1960: Toby Tyler (Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus)
• 1968–1970: Planet of the Giants (Land of the Giants)
• 1972: Rabbits (Night of the Lepus)
• 1978: The Swarm (The Swarm)
• 1980: Madness without a handicap (Caddyshack)
• 1981: The Great from the Dark (Walking Tall)
• 1981: The Cadets of Bunker Hill (Traps)
• 1985: The Only Witness
• 1985-1986: MacGyver
• 1995: The Grass Harp (The Grass Harp)

Web links

• Stan Jolley in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Dennis McLellan: Stan Jolley dies at 86; one of Disneyland's original designers. Los Angeles Times , June 10, 2012, accessed January 21, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Scott Wolf: A Mouse Clubhouse Exclusive interview from 2009: STAN JOLLEY A tour of Stan's home - PART 1. (No longer available online.) Mouse Clubhouse, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 21, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.