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name: "Vincent Peranio"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vincent-peranio"
fi1m_id: "vincent-peranio"
imdb_id: "nm0672781"
tmdb_id: 10368
wikidata_id: "Q7932002"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:36:10.761107+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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# Vincent Peranio

## Identity

Vincent Peranio

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vincent-peranio
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vincent-peranio
- **IMDb ID:** nm0672781
- **TMDB ID:** 10368
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7932002
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Peranio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7932002, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672781/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10368

Production designer. Born 1 January 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1945, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- **Active:** 1972–2002
- **Also known as:** Vincent Perranio
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 64 (1), 2000s 90 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Peranio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7932002, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672781/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10368

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Wire*](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md) (90)

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## Biography

Vincent Peranio is an American production designer and art director. Born in 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1968. He began his career creating sets and props for filmmaker John Waters, becoming one of the regular crew members known as the Dreamlanders.

Peranio served as production designer on Waters' films including *Pink Flamingos* (1972), *Female Trouble* (1974), *Hairspray* (1988), *Cry-Baby* (1990), *Serial Mom* (1994), *Pecker* (1998), *Cecil B. Demented* (2000) and *A Dirty Shame* (2004). He also worked on other features such as *Liberty Heights* (1999) and *Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2* (2000).

His television credits include production design on *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993–1999), *The Corner* (2000) and all five seasons of *The Wire* (2002–2008). He is married to art director Dolores Deluxe and retired after a career spanning more than four decades.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Pink Flamingos* (1972), Fi1m 64, as Accordian Player — [page](https://film.one/film/pink-flamingos.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Wire* (2002), Fi1m 90, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Washingtonienne* (2009), Production Design
- *This Filthy World* (2006), Production Design
- *A Dirty Shame* (2004), Production Design
- *Something the Lord Made* (2004), Production Design
- *The Wire* (2002), series, Production Design — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md)
- *Shot in the Heart* (2001), Production Design
- *Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2* (2000), Production Design
- *Cecil B. Demented* (2000), Production Design
- *Young Americans* (2000), series, Production Design
- *Liberty Heights* (1999), Production Design
- *Pecker* (1998), Production Design
- *Serial Mom* (1994), Production Design
- *Cry-Baby* (1990), Production Design
- *Hairspray* (1988), as Art Direction · Production Design
- *The Adventure of the Action Hunters* (1987), as Art Direction
- *The House on Sorority Row* (1982), as Art Direction
- *Polyester* (1981), as Art Direction
- *The Private Eyes* (1980), as Art Direction
- *The Prize Fighter* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Desperate Living* (1977), Set Designer, Art Direction
- *Female Trouble* (1976), as Guy Who Dies for Art (uncredited) · Production Design, Set Designer, Art Direction
- *Love Letter to Edie* (1975), as Sailor in Bar, Art Direction
- *Pink Flamingos* (1972), as Accordian Player, Art Direction · Production Design, Set Designer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/pink-flamingos.md)
- *Multiple Maniacs* (1970), as Freak · Prop Designer, Creature Design

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