Dianne Wager

Dianne Wager (October 16, 1931 – August 23, 2011) was an art director, production designer, and set designer for motion pictures and television.

Wager was born in Milwaukee in 1931. She moved to Los Angeles and studied set design and set illustration at the Chouinard Art Institute. In 1964, she was hired by Twentieth Century Fox as a set designer on the television series, Peyton Place. While at Fox, she also worked on the Batman television series and the feature film Fantastic Voyage.

Through the 1970s, Wager worked with Oscar-winning production designer Dale Hennesy. When Hennesy died in 1981 during the production of Annie.

Selected works

Peyton Place (1964-1969, set designer, 514 episodes) Fantastic Voyage (1966, set designer) Sleeper (1973, set design) King Kong (1976, set designer) The Island (1980, set designer) Rhinestone (1984, set designer) Project X (1987, assistant art director) The Parent Trap (1998, set designer) Galaxy Quest (1999, set designer) The Green Mile (1999, set designer) Heartbreakers (2001, set designer) Jurassic Park III (2001, set designer) The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002, set designer) Stuart Little 2 (2002, set designer) Something's Gotta Give (2003, set designer) John Adams (2008, assistant art director) Changeling (2008, set designer)