{"id":49290,"date":"2018-10-03T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=49290"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:27:18","slug":"dwyer-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/10\/dwyer-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwyer Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

John M. Dwyer<\/strong>, award-winning set decorator for the original series, Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>, and six of the Star Trek<\/em> movies, died on September 15 aged eighty-three.<\/p>\n

The cause of death was complications from Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n

Born in Los Angeles, with a father and grandfather who worked in Hollywood, Dwyer joined the Navy and was on the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany<\/em> during the Korean War.<\/p>\n

When he returned home, he attended Chouinard Art Institute<\/em> and began working at Universal Studios<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dwyer joined the original series during its second season and began work on The Trouble With Tribbles<\/em> episode. He dressed sets for thirty-eight original series episodes, and was nominated with Walter M. Jeffreys<\/strong> for an Emmy<\/em> for their work on All Our Yesterdays.<\/em><\/p>\n

“In the original series we had to be really inventive, because we were dealing with stuff that nobody knew anything about,” he said in a Star Trek<\/em> DVD featurette. “There was no space shows, and we didn’t have any money, so you had to scrounge; in effect, scrounge everything that you got.”<\/p>\n

He worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> for one season, and on the following Trek movies: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection<\/em>, and Star Trek: Nemesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Other shows and movies on which he worked include 9 1\/2 Weeks, Alien: Resurrection, Angel Heart, Beverly Hills Cop, Black Rain, Hollow Man, Kojak, Larger Than Life, McHale’s Navy, Patriot Games, Rocky V, The Eiger Sanction, The Virginian, Tammy, Two-Minute Warning,<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n

Dwyer won an Emmy in 1981 for The Gangster Chronicle<\/em>s. He was nominated for an Academy Award<\/em> (with John W. Corso<\/strong>) for 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2002, Dwyer retired after having worked in Hollywood for almost a half century.<\/p>\n

Dwyer is survived by his wife Anita, and his son Matthew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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