Catacombs Credits GuideCrew
Catacombs Credits GuideLane joined AP Films as a director in 1964. He directed episodes of Thunderbirds and UFO and both Thunderbirds films. He became a producer of Joe 90 and The Secret Service, and was associate producer on the 5 Star 5 film project. He also wrote episodes of UFO, and he edited The Investigator and Into Infinity. He was asked to direct on Space: 1999, but preferred to work in editing on Year 1. In Year 2 he acted as a middle man between the directors, many of whom were new to science fiction and effects, and the special effects crew.
He was a visual coordinator on Superman (1978) and Supergirl (1984). More recently he has worked as a producer of television commercials.
Born 1930, Watts entered the film business in 1950 as a focus puller. He has worked on many television series, including The Baron (1965), The Avengers, The Champions (1968), Randall & Hopkirk Deceased (1968), Department S (1970), Jason King (1971), The Adventurer (1972) and The Zoo Gang (1974). He joined Gerry Anderson on the series The Protectors and also worked on Into Infinity and Space Police. Other work included Return Of The Saint (1978), Hammer House Of Horror (1980), Hammer House Of Mystery & Suspense (1984) and the U.S. miniseries Internal Affairs (1990).
He worked on the films Educating Rita (1982) and Daryl (1985). He died in 1994.
Worked on The New Avengers (1976), Anderson's Terrahawks, and the Bond film The Living Daylights (1987).
The Persuaders (1971), The Adventurer (1972)
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Elms was a pop musician with the group "Christie", and had a number one hit with "Yellow River". He was also married to Sylvia Anderson's daughter, and she was keen to have him contribute to Space 1999. Elms also did the electric guitar solo on the title music and a guitar arrangement of the theme used in Matter Of Life And Death. His attempt to score the episode Ring Around The Moon was not wildly successful, as the session musicians refused to work with him. Alan Willis had to take over, composing a score based on his themes. |
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Born in Vienna, Gernreich escaped the Nazis by emigrating to the USA in 1938. He became a dancer and after designing dancing costumes he designed clothes for a film. In association with Walter Bass he became one of the world's top designers. Most famous of his often radical ideas was the topless swimsuit. For the Osaka Expo 1970 he caused a sensation with his unisex clothes for the year 2000. In 1967 he appeared as himself in an episode of Batman. In early 1973 he was asked by the Andersons and Abe Mandell to design the Moon City costumes. Gernreich died in 1985. Sylvia Anderson on Rudi Gernreich: |
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Born in 1946, Foss is famous for his airbrush paintings for science fiction book covers, depicting immense, complex spacecraft and robots. He also did the illustrations for Alex Comfort's Joy Of Sex in 1971. He did several paintings as designs for Space: 1999, the early Dune film project in the late 1970s, and the films Superman (1978) and Alien (1979).
Worked on The Adventurer (1972), The New Avengers (1977) and the film Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981), Return Of The Jedi (1983), The Chain (1985), Living Daylights (1987), License To Kill (1989), GoldenEye (1995), Titanic (1997).
After designing in Paris for 10 years, Porteous entered television design with Emergency Ward 10. She has worked on the films Leo The Last (1969), Performance (1970), Branigan (1975), Clash Of The Titans (1981), Octopussy (1983), Supergirl (1984), A View To A Kill (1985), Aliens (1986), and The Living Daylights (1987). She was costume designer for the series The Gravy Train Goes East (1991), and the film Judge Dredd (1995). She is the wife of actor Peter Porteous who played Petrov in Space: 1999.
"One of the most interesting things I did for television was Space: 1999. The budget and time to do things were considerably less (than film). It was a question of designing a new planet every two weeks with very little money and it was pretty hard work. The first series had no costume designer as such, and in the second series everyone was a bit older and I was brought in to try to make it look a bit more fashionable using the basic garments. And that's the only reason I was taken on at first. They said they'd got Francesca Annis who played one of the alien ladies in it - Maya, the lady who changed shape. - and would I do a costume for her? So I did, and the one for her dad, and then they said would I like to stay and do the series? Maya had an extraordinary hairstyle and eyebrows which were just little dots, and wonderful make up. That was fun to do, although it was very limited, but we did some good things."
She was interviewed in TV Zone no 9 (June 1993).
Television includes The Avengers, Paradise Postponed (1986). Films include From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Zardoz (1973), Superman (1978), Excaliber (1981), Return Of The Soldier (1982), Clash Of The Titans (1982), Shirley Valentine (1989).
Superman (1978), Clash Of The Titans (1982), Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom (1984), TV movie Woman In Black (1989).
TV series The Prisoner (1967), Worlds Beyond (1986), films Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1969), Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell (1974), DreamChild (1985), Biggles (1985), Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989).
TV series Worlds Beyond (1986), Minder (1991), film Octopussy (1983).
From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968), The Go-Between (1971), The Slipper and The Rose (1976), The Monster Club (1980), The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957), Warlords Of Atlantis (1978), Clash Of The Titans (1981), Octopussy (1983), American Gothic (1988).
Script supervisor on For Your Eyes Only (1981), Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom (1986), Lionheart (1987).
Taylor held chairs of Physics at Southampton University and Rutgers University, New York, before becoming Professor of Mathematics at King's College, London. He has also acted in plays and films, has directed stage productions in Oxford and Cambridge, and has written science fiction plays. He has appeared in discussions and documentaries on popular science issues, He is particularly interested in the fringe sciences and the supernatural, and was initially very open minded, though he later expressed more sceptical views. His books include The Shape Of Minds To Come (1971), The New Physics (1972), Black Holes: The End Of The Universe? (1973) and Super Minds (1975).
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