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William Kiernan is a Actor and Set Decoration American born on 2 april 1908 at New York City (USA)

William Kiernan

William Kiernan
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Nationality USA
Birth 2 april 1908 at New York City (USA)
Death 19 november 1973 (at 65 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

William Kiernan (2 April 1908 – 19 November 1973) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Best films

Funny Girl (1968)
(Set Decoration)
The Way We Were (1973)
(Set Decoration)
The Jolson Story (1946)
(Set Decoration)
Pal Joey (1957)
(Set Decoration)
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
(Set Decoration)
Salome (1953)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Jean Louis
Jean Louis
(37 films)
Morris Stoloff
Morris Stoloff
(24 films)
Charles Nelson
Charles Nelson
(15 films)
Arthur Morton
Arthur Morton
(14 films)
Walter Holscher
Walter Holscher
(14 films)
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Filmography of William Kiernan (71 films)

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Actor

The McMasters, 1h30
Directed by Alf Kjellin
Origin USA
Genres War, Western
Actors Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine, Nancy Kwan, Jack Palance, John Carradine
Roles Bartender
Rating59% 2.9942152.9942152.9942152.9942152.994215
De retour de la guerre de Sécession, Benjie, un soldat noir, revient dans le ranch de son patron. Tous deux décident de s'associer pour gérer le travail et partager les bénéfices. Cependant le voisinage s'oppose fermement à cette situation...

Art

The Way We Were, 1h58
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.4991953.4991953.4991953.4991953.499195
Told partly in flashback, it is the story of Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford). Their differences are immense: she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong anti-war opinions, and he is a carefree WASP with no particular political bent. While attending the same college, she is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill, which she finds captivating, although he doesn't work very hard at it. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes. Their attraction is evident, but neither of them act upon it, and lose touch after graduation.
The Wrath of God, 1h51
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Frank Langella, Victor Buono, John Colicos, Gregory Sierra
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.99562.99562.99562.99562.9956
Van Horne (played by Mitchum), a bank robber dressed like a Roman Catholic priest, is spared from a firing squad in 1922 in an unnamed Central America nation and sent to kill a local desperado.
The Cowboys, 2h3
Directed by Mark Rydell, Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Robert Carradine
Roles Set Decoration
Rating73% 3.697163.697163.697163.697163.69716
When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to find replacement drovers for his upcoming 400-mile (640 km) long cattle drive. He rides into deserted Bozeman, Montana. There, Anse Peterson (Slim Pickens) suggests using local schoolboys. Andersen visits the school but departs unconvinced. The next morning, a group of the boys show up at Andersen's ranch to volunteer for the drive. Andersen tests the boys' ability to stay on a bucking horse. As the boys successfully take turns, Cimarron (A Martinez), another young man slightly older than the others, rides up. After successfully subduing and riding the test horse, Cimarron gets into a fight with Slim (Robert Carradine), the oldest of the boys. Andersen, though impressed by Cimarron's abilities, has misgivings because of his angry nature and sends him away. Andersen reluctantly decides to hire the boys.
Kotch
Kotch (1971)
, 1h53
Directed by Jack Lemmon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer, Biff Elliot
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.2961153.2961153.2961153.2961153.296115
Joseph P. Kotcher un veuf de 72 ans vit chez ses enfants et leur rend la vie impossible. À la suite d'une dispute, Kotch quitte le domicile familial et fait l'expérience de vivre seul.
Sometimes a Great Notion, 1h53
Directed by Paul Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about families
Actors Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel, Linda Lawson
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.448333.448333.448333.448333.44833
The economic stability of Wakonda, Oregon, is threatened when the local logging union calls a strike against a large lumber conglomerate. When independent logger Hank Stamper and his father Henry are urged to support the strikers, they refuse, and the townspeople consider them traitors. Hank struggles to keep the small family business alive and consequently widens the rift between himself and his complacent wife Viv, who wants him to put an end to the territorial struggle but is resigned to his doing things as he sees fit. Also complicating matters is Leland Stamper, Henry's youngest son and Hank's half-brother, who returns home with a college education and experience in urban living. A heavy drinker, Lee eventually reveals he attempted suicide after his mother killed herself and has been suffering from deep depression ever since. Despite the fact that he is uncomfortable living with a family he barely knows, Lee joins forces with them when they are forced to battle both the locals, who have burned their equipment, and the elements, which threaten their efforts to transport their logs downriver.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo (1970)
, 1h54
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.347133.347133.347133.347133.34713
The film opens during the American Civil War. Col. Cord McNally (John Wayne) has instructions telegraphed to his close friend, Lt. Ned Forsythe (Peter Jason), in charge of the Union troops on a Union army payroll train. However, Confederates led by Capt. Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum) hijack the train. They have an elegant plan of listening in on the telegraph wires, greasing the tracks to stop the train, disconnecting the payroll wagon from the engine so it would roll back down the hill, using a hornet's nest to force the Union guards to jump off the train, then catching the train with many ropes tied to trees. In the process, Lt. Forsythe is fatally injured.
The April Fools, 1h35
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Myrna Loy, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Charles Boyer
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.049843.049843.049843.049843.04984
Howard Brubaker (Lemmon) is married to Phyllis (Sally Kellerman), who doesn't love him. Catherine (Deneuve) is the stunning wife of an equally uncaring husband, Howard's philandering boss Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford).
Funny Girl
Funny Girl (1968)
, 2h31
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel
Roles Set Decoration
Rating73% 3.6980253.6980253.6980253.6980253.698025
Set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I, the story opens with Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) awaiting the return of husband Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif) from prison, and then moves into an extended flashback focusing on their meeting and marriage.
Reflections in a Golden Eye, 1h48
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster, Gordon Mitchell
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.3471553.3471553.3471553.3471553.347155
The film tells of six central characters, their failures, obsessions and darkest desires. Set at a US Army post in the South in the 1930s, it features Major Weldon Penderton (Brando) and his wife Leonora (Taylor). Other central characters are Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon (Brian Keith) and his depressed wife Alison (Julie Harris), the Langdons' houseboy Anacleto (Zorro David), and Private Ellgee Williams (Robert Forster).
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, 1h26
Directed by Richard Quiney, Alexander Mackendrick
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse, Barbara Harris, Hugh Griffith, Jonathan Winters, Lionel Jeffries
Roles Set Decoration
Rating49% 2.473132.473132.473132.473132.47313
Described by the author as a "farce in three scenes", the story involves an overbearing mother who travels to a luxury resort in the Caribbean, bringing along her son and her deceased husband, preserved and in his casket.
The Sand Pebbles, 3h2
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako Iwamatsu, Charles Knox Robinson III
Roles Set Decoration
Rating74% 3.7470753.7470753.7470753.7470753.747075
In 1926, Machinist's Mate First Class Jake Holman transfers to the Yangtze River Patrol gunboat USS San Pablo. The ship is nicknamed the "Sand Pebble" and its sailors "Sand Pebbles".
This Property Is Condemned, 1h50
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham, Alan Baxter
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.494473.494473.494473.494473.49447
The film is a frame story in which an unkempt girl, Willie Starr (Mary Badham), tells the story of her dead sister Alva (Natalie Wood) to Tom, a boy who she meets on the abandoned railroad tracks of Dodson, Mississippi in the 1930s. The viewer sees this story in flashback.
How to Murder Your Wife, 1h58
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes La bande dessinée
Actors Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Claire Trevor, Eddie Mayehoff, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.2479853.2479853.2479853.2479853.247985
Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) is a successful, happily unmarried cartoonist enjoying the comforts of a well-to-do existence in an urban townhouse, including the services of his loyal and attentive valet, Charles Firbank (Terry-Thomas). Stanley's comic strip, Bash Brannigan, is a secret-agent thriller characterized by a high level of realism: no matter how outrageous the plot may seem, Stanley will not allow Brannigan to do anything physically impossible or use gadgets that don't exist. He hires actors and sets up elaborate enactments of storylines, playing Brannigan himself, while Charles takes photographs Stanley will use as models.
Ensign Pulver, 1h44
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Tommy Sands, Millie Perkins
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9524852.9524852.9524852.9524852.952485
U.S. Navy Ensign Frank Pulver (Robert Walker, Jr.) feels unappreciated, as usual. Even when he personally aims a sharp object into the hindquarters of the hated Captain Morton (Burl Ives), the happy crew cannot imagine that the all-talk, no-action Pulver could be behind it. A poll to guess at the identity of the "ass-sassin" results in votes for almost everyone except Pulver, which he bitterly resents.