William O. Wallace | |
Birth Date: | 9 August 1906 |
Birth Place: | Central Falls, Rhode Island, US |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California |
Other Names: | William G. Wallace |
Occupation: | Set decorator |
Yearsactive: | 1941–1967 |
William O. Wallace (August 9, 1906 – November 4, 1968) [1] was an American set decorator who worked throughout the 1940s and 1950s in multiple Hollywood productions. He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956. He moved into television in the late 1950s, and was chief set decorator on Maverick.