Vincent Peranio

Vincent Peranio (born 1945) is an American film and television production designer, art director, set designer, and actor.[1]

Vincent Peranio
Born1945
Baltimore, Maryland
NationalityAmerican
Other namesVince Peranio
OccupationProduction design
Known forFilm
Television
Dreamlanders

Peranio began his career designing film sets for John Waters. Because of his work with Waters, he is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members.

Biography

Peranio was born in 1945 in Baltimore.

Peranio's first credited project is the creation of Lobstora, a room-sized rapacious lobster in Waters' Multiple Maniacs (1970).

After Multiple Maniacs, Peranio developed a successful career creating the sets for all subsequent films of Waters and other films and TV shows, including Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights and the crime dramas, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Corner, and the HBO television production The Wire.[2][3]

At times, Peranio's brother Ed Peranio assisted with prop construction and creating effects, as well as portraying minor roles in the early Waters films.[4]

Filmography

Production design

Art direction

Actor

Television production design

Other
  • Edith's Shopping Bag (1976) (Himself)
  • The Bedroom Window (1987) (set buyer: Baltimore)
  • Divine Trash (1998) (himself)
  • Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street' (1998) (as himself)
  • It Came from Baltimore (2005) (Himself)
  • All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame' (2005) (Himself)
  • The Wire: It's All Connected (2006) (Himself)
  • The Roots of 'Hairspray' (2007) (Himself)

References
  1. "Vincent Peranio". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  2. "New York Times Filmography". The New York Times. June 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
  3. "Vincent Peranio". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
  4. "Ed Peranio". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
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