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 the 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 attending 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 in the Department of Industrial Design. He then began working for 21st Century Fox and then moved to Walt Disney Company. He was involved in Anaheim, California at the original Disneyland Resort. These included the designs for different roller coasters and building in Frontierland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.
He then worked until 1960 for Disney, among others for the short film Donald in the Land of Math Magic ( 1959), the mini-series The Nine Lives of Sheriff Baca (1958) and the film Toby Tyler ( 1960). He then worked for the U.S. television, especially for television shows 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 TV series. As a production designer, he worked on the series The Great out of the darkness and in the television series MacGyver.
His feature films as an art director and production designer include Caddyshack - caddyshack (1980 ), The Cadets of Bunker Hill (1981) and The Grass Harp ( 1995). For Witness (1985 ), he received an Oscar nomination.
Stan Jolley died at the age of 86 from stomach cancer.