For close to thirty years, Wiard Ihnen worked in American cinema as an art director, set director and production designer. Born in Jersey City, the son of an architect, he first studied his father's craft at Columbia. He then attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Following that, Ihnen studied painting. Working as an architect, he designed a few estates in New York. Ihnen began working with Adolph Zukor at the Manhattan studios of Famous Players-Lasky in 1919 and remained there through the early '30s when he moved to the Long Island-based Astoria studios of Paramount. Eventually Ihnen worked for a number of major studios and worked with some of the world's greatest filmmakers including Fritz Lang, John Ford and Josef von Sternberg. Ihnen won Oscars for his work on Wilson (1944) and Blood on the Sun (1945). He retired from film in the early 1960s. Ihnen was married to Edith Head, one of Hollywood's most influential designers.
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The Gallant Hours
Art Director |
1960 | |||
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The King and Four Queens
Art Director |
1956 | |||
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Crashout
Art Director |
1955 | |||
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The Indian Fighter
Art Director |
1955 | |||
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Top of the World
Art Director |
1955 | |||
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A Lion Is in the Streets
Production Designer, Set Designer |
1953 | |||
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I, the Jury
Art Director |
1953 | |||
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War Paint
Production Designer |
1953 | |||
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Rancho Notorious
Production Designer |
1952 | |||
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Art Director |
1950 | |||
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Only the Valiant
Production Designer |
1950 | |||
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The Time of Your Life
Art Director |
1948 | |||
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Art Director |
1946 | |||
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Along Came Jones
Production Designer |
1945 | |||
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Blood on the Sun
Art Director |
1945 | |||
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It's a Pleasure
Art Director |
1945 | |||
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Jane Eyre
Art Director |
1944 | |||
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Wilson
Art Director |
1944 | |||
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Crash Dive
Art Director |
1943 | |||
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Iceland
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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Roxie Hart
Art Director |
1942 | |||
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The Magnificent Dope
Production Designer |
1942 | |||
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Man Hunt
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Moon over Miami
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Western Union
Art Director |
1941 | |||
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Hudson's Bay
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Johnny Apollo
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Maryland
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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The Return of Frank James
Art Director |
1940 | |||
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Art Director |
1939 | |||
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Stagecoach
Set Designer |
1939 | |||
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The Return of the Cisco Kid
Art Director |
1939 | |||
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Every Day's a Holiday
Production Designer |
1937 | |||
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Love on Toast
Art Director |
1937 | |||
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Midnight Madonna
Art Director |
1937 | |||
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The Outcast
Art Director |
1937 | |||
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Dancing Pirate
Art Director |
1936 | |||
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Cradle Song
Production Designer |
1933 | |||
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Duck Soup
Art Director |
1933 | |||
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One Sunday Afternoon
Art Director |
1933 | |||
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Blonde Venus
Art Director |
1932 |
