---
name: "Stan Jolley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stan-jolley"
fi1m_id: "stan-jolley"
imdb_id: "nm0427164"
tmdb_id: 352394
wikidata_id: "Q7597706"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "17 May 1926"
died: "4 June 2012"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T17:33:17.167036+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."
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# Stan Jolley

## Identity

Stan Jolley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stan-jolley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stan-jolley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0427164
- **TMDB ID:** 352394
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7597706
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Jolley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7597706, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427164/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/352394

Production designer. Born 17 May 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 4 June 2012.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 17 May 1926, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 4 June 2012
- **Active:** 1980–1985
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Jolley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7597706, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427164/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/352394

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Witness*](https://film.one/film/witness.md) (84)

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## Biography

Stan Jolley was an American art director and production designer. Born Stanford Jolley Jr on 17 May 1926 in New York City, he was the son of character actor I. Stanford Jolley. After serving in the US Navy during the Second World War and graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in industrial design, he began his career as a set designer.

Jolley worked for seven years at Walt Disney Studios from 1953, contributing to film and television projects as well as the design of Disneyland attractions including the Golden Horseshoe saloon, Autopia and interiors of Sleeping Beauty Castle. He was art director on the Oscar-nominated short *Donald in Mathmagic Land* (1959). After leaving Disney he worked on numerous films and television series as art director and production designer.

His credits include production design on *Caddyshack* (1980), *Witness* (1985) – for which he received an Academy Award nomination – and *Dutch* (1991), and art direction on *Superman* (1978). He also served as production designer on the series *MacGyver*. Jolley died on 4 June 2012 in Rancho Mirage, California.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Witness* (1985), Fi1m 84, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/witness.md)
- *Taps* (1981), Fi1m 63, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/taps.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *The Grass Harp* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Dutch* (1991), Production Design
- *The Good Mother* (1988), Production Design
- *The Abduction of Kari Swenson* (1987), Production Designer
- *MacGyver* (1985), series, Director, Production Design
- *Witness* (1985), Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/witness.md)
- *No Man's Land* (1984), Production Design
- *Last of the Great Survivors* (1984), Production Design
- *Taps* (1981), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/taps.md)
- *Cattle Annie and Little Britches* (1981), Production Design, Production Designer
- *Caddyshack* (1980), Production Design
- *Americathon* (1979), Production Design
- *Like Normal People* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Superman* (1978), as Art Direction
- *Rescue from Gilligan's Island* (1978), Production Design
- *Happily Ever After* (1978), Production Design
- *The Swarm* (1978), Production Design
- *Flood!* (1977), Production Design
- *The Amazing Howard Hughes* (1977), Production Design
- *The Amazing Howard Hughes* (1977), series, Production Design
- *Drum* (1976), Production Design
- *Framed* (1975), Production Design
- *The Swiss Family Robinson* (1975), Production Design
- *Adventures of the Queen* (1975), Production Design
- *A Knife for the Ladies* (1974), Producer, Production Design
- *Terror in the Wax Museum* (1973), Production Design
- *Walking Tall* (1973), Production Design
- *The War Between Men and Women* (1972), Production Design
- *City Beneath the Sea* (1971), as Art Direction
- *Lawman* (1971), Production Design
- *The Phynx* (1970), as Art Direction · Production Design
- *Young Billy Young* (1969), as Art Direction
- *The Good Guys and the Bad Guys* (1969), Production Design, Associate Producer
- *Ride Beyond Vengeance* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Broken Sabre* (1965), as Art Direction
- *Mail Order Bride* (1964), as Art Direction
- *Donald in Mathmagic Land* (1959), as Art Direction
- *The Ape* (1940), as Boy in Soda Shop

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1986: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Witness*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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