---
name: "Bill Kenney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-kenney"
fi1m_id: "bill-kenney"
imdb_id: "nm0448457"
tmdb_id: 10187
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 61
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-10-05T00:14:12.143615+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."
---

# Bill Kenney

## Identity

Bill Kenney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-kenney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-kenney
- **IMDb ID:** nm0448457
- **TMDB ID:** 10187
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448457/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10187

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1971–1997
- **Frequently works with:** [Richard Crenna](https://film.one/person/richard-crenna.md), [Sylvester Stallone](https://film.one/person/sylvester-stallone.md), [Buzz Feitshans](https://film.one/person/buzz-feitshans.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 72 (2), 1980s 58 (3), 1990s 57 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 61 to 59 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 5 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 7, Action 6, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Drama 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 14 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,227m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448457/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10187

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Eraser*](https://film.one/film/eraser.md) (58)
- **AMC+:** [*Rocky IV*](https://film.one/film/rocky-iv.md) (52)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Rambo III*](https://film.one/film/rambo-iii.md) (39)
- **Netflix:** [*Speed 2: Cruise Control*](https://film.one/film/speed-2-cruise-control.md) (36)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bill Kenney is an American production designer and art director. He began his career at Universal Studios in 1954 at the age of 18, working in various departments including labour, grip, machine shop and stock unit before advancing to set designer, assistant art director and art director. He left the studio in 1972 to work freelance.

His credits as production designer include *Body Heat* (1981), *Rambo: First Blood Part II* (1985), *Rocky IV* (1985), *Rambo III* (1988), *Cobra* (1986), *Under Siege* (1992), *Eraser* (1996) and *Speed 2: Cruise Control* (1997). Earlier work as art director encompasses *Diamonds Are Forever* (1971) and *Carrie* (1976). He is the son of a research department head at Warner Bros., Disney and Universal, and his father worked in film technicians' union IA 683. Kenney served in the US Army in Korea and retired at the age of 60.

*Sources: imdb.com, shotonwhat.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

- *Speed 2: Cruise Control* (1997), Fi1m 36, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/speed-2-cruise-control.md)
- *Eraser* (1996), Fi1m 58, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/eraser.md)
- *Under Siege* (1992), Fi1m 77, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/under-siege.md)
- *Rambo III* (1988), Fi1m 39, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/rambo-iii.md)
- *Rocky IV* (1985), Fi1m 52, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/rocky-iv.md)
- *Body Heat* (1981), Fi1m 83, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/body-heat.md)
- *Carrie* (1976), Fi1m 86, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/carrie.md)
- *Diamonds Are Forever* (1971), Fi1m 58, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/diamonds-are-forever.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Speed 2: Cruise Control* (1997), Production Design — Fi1m 36, [page](https://film.one/film/speed-2-cruise-control.md)
- *Eraser* (1996), Production Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/eraser.md)
- *Little Giants* (1994), Production Design
- *The River Wild* (1994), Production Design
- *Under Siege* (1992), Production Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/under-siege.md)
- *Oscar* (1991), Production Design
- *Lock Up* (1989), Production Design
- *Rambo III* (1988), Production Design — Fi1m 39, [page](https://film.one/film/rambo-iii.md)
- *The Big Town* (1987), Production Design
- *Cobra* (1986), Production Design
- *Rocky IV* (1985), Production Design — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/rocky-iv.md)
- *Rambo: First Blood Part II* (1985), Production Design
- *Tank* (1984), Production Design
- *Tough Enough* (1983), Production Design
- *Eddie Macon's Run* (1983), Production Design
- *Body Heat* (1981), Production Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/body-heat.md)
- *A Change of Seasons* (1980), Production Design
- *The Mountain Men* (1980), Production Design
- *Born Again* (1978), Production Design
- *Superdome* (1978), as Art Direction
- *The Choirboys* (1977), Production Design
- *Telethon* (1977), as Art Direction
- *Baker's Hawk* (1976), Production Design
- *Carrie* (1976), as Art Direction — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/carrie.md)
- *Drum* (1976), as Art Direction
- *Sweet Revenge* (1976), as Art Direction
- *Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan* (1975), series, as Art Direction
- *Hitched* (1973), as Art Direction
- *Jigsaw* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Diamonds Are Forever* (1971), as Art Direction — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/diamonds-are-forever.md)
- *Cannon* (1971), series, as Art Direction

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