Keith Wilson (production designer)


Keith George Wilson was a British production designer of television and film.

Life and career

After studying theatre design at the Medway College of Art, Rochester, Wilson began his career at AP Films in the early 1960s, working as an art department assistant on Fireball XL5 and subsequent Gerry Anderson productions. For the production of Joe 90 and The Secret Service, Wilson took over from Bob Bell as Century 21's art director. In the 1970s, he was an uncredited costume designer on UFO and devised sets for Space: 1999 and Star Maidens.
Not wanting to be typecast as a science fiction designer, in the late 1970s Wilson began working in other genres of feature films. He continued to work as a production designer until the 2000s. His final production design credit was The Hills Have Eyes 2. He died on 6 July 2011, aged 69.

Film and TV credits

The Hills Have Eyes 2 The Ten Commandments A Christmas Carol The Blackwater Lightship Dinotopia Victoria & Albert In the Beginning Mary, Mother of Jesus The Seventh Scroll Miracle at Midnight Oliver Twist The Apocalypse Watch Supply & Demand The Little Riders The Governor The Old Curiosity Shop Remember Stalin Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors L'Amérique en otage Great Expectations The Lady and the Highwayman Steal the Sky A Hazard of Hearts The Lion of Africa Gulag Out of the Darkness Exploits at West Poley Friday Film Special: Haunters of the Deep Slayground Memoirs of a Survivor Riding High Yesterday's Hero A Man Called Intrepid International Velvet Space: 1999 The New Avengers Star Maidens Madhouseset dresserUFO The Secret Service Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Awards

Wilson won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special for the TV film Stalin. He had been nominated for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special for Great Expectations. He later received a CableACE Award for Art Direction in a Dramatic Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries for The Old Curiosity Shop.