---
name: "Alfred Sweeney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alfred-sweeney"
fi1m_id: "alfred-sweeney"
imdb_id: "nm0842080"
tmdb_id: 936638
wikidata_id: "Q72096904"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "18 December 1914"
died: "13 December 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T18:17:33.974955+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alfred Sweeney

## Identity

Alfred Sweeney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alfred-sweeney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alfred-sweeney
- **IMDb ID:** nm0842080
- **TMDB ID:** 936638
- **Wikidata ID:** Q72096904
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sweeney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72096904, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842080/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/936638

Production designer. Born 18 December 1914 in Maine. Died 13 December 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 18 December 1914, Maine
- **Died:** 13 December 1984
- **Active:** 1980–1983
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $202m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sweeney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72096904, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842080/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/936638

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mr. Mom*](https://film.one/film/mr-mom.md) (62), [*Stir Crazy*](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md) (60)

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## Biography

Alfred Sweeney was an American art director and production designer. He was born on 18 December 1914 in Maine and died on 13 December 1984 in Santa Barbara, California.

He worked on approximately sixty films. Early in his career he was employed by Universal Pictures; he later freelanced. His credits include art direction on *Tarantula* (1955), *Revenge of the Creature* (1955), *Harper* (1966), *The War Wagon* (1967) and *The Bridge at Remagen* (1969), and production design on *Silver Streak* (1976), *Foul Play* (1978), *Stir Crazy* (1980), *Taps* (1981) and *Mr. Mom* (1983).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Mr. Mom* (1983), Fi1m 62, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-mom.md)
- *Taps* (1981), Fi1m 63, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/taps.md)
- *Stir Crazy* (1980), Fi1m 60, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Romantic Comedy* (1983), Production Design
- *Mr. Mom* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-mom.md)
- *Taps* (1981), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/taps.md)
- *Stir Crazy* (1980), Production Design — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md)
- *The Black Marble* (1980), Production Design
- *The Runner Stumbles* (1979), Production Design
- *North Dallas Forty* (1979), Production Design
- *Foul Play* (1978), Production Design
- *A Piece of the Action* (1977), Production Design
- *Silver Streak* (1976), Production Design
- *Let's Do It Again* (1975), Production Design
- *Breakout* (1975), as Art Direction
- *Uptown Saturday Night* (1974), Production Design
- *Oklahoma Crude* (1973), Production Design
- *The Train Robbers* (1973), as Art Direction
- *The Carey Treatment* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Cisco Pike* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Something Big* (1971), as Art Direction
- *Fools' Parade* (1971), as Art Direction
- *Rabbit, Run* (1970), as Art Direction
- *The Bridge at Remagen* (1969), Production Design
- *Bandolero!* (1968), as Art Direction
- *The Devil's Brigade* (1968), as Art Direction
- *The War Wagon* (1967), as Art Direction
- *Any Wednesday* (1966), as Art Direction
- *The Appaloosa* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Harper* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Moment to Moment* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Shenandoah* (1965), as Art Direction
- *Captain Newman, M.D.* (1963), as Art Direction
- *Showdown* (1963), as Art Direction
- *The Last Sunset* (1961), as Art Direction
- *Posse from Hell* (1961), as Art Direction
- *Solomon and Sheba* (1959), as Art Direction
- *A Time to Love and a Time to Die* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Day of the Badman* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Man in the Shadow* (1957), as Art Direction
- *The Tarnished Angels* (1957), as Art Direction
- *Gun for a Coward* (1956), as Art Direction
- *The Unguarded Moment* (1956), as Art Direction
- *I've Lived Before* (1956), as Art Direction
- *Star in the Dust* (1956), as Art Direction
- *The Kettles in the Ozarks* (1956), as Art Direction
- *Raw Edge* (1956), as Art Direction
- *The Square Jungle* (1955), as Art Direction
- *The Spoilers* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Tarantula* (1955), as Art Direction
- *The Looters* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Revenge of the Creature* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Destry* (1954), as Art Direction
- *The Yellow Mountain* (1954), as Art Direction
- *The Great Sioux Uprising* (1953), as Art Direction
- *The Black Castle* (1952), as Art Direction

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