Cast & creator
Ian Whittaker
Best known for Alien, Sense and Sensibility, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Ian Roy Whittaker (13 July 1928 – 16 October 2022) was a British set decorator and actor. He won an Academy Award and was nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction. Whittaker died of prostate cancer on 16 October 2022, at the age of 94.
66
film credits
3
television credits
16
1953–2009 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (69)
Showing 69 of 69 credits
Alien
Set Decoration
1979
Sense and Sensibility
Set Decoration
1995
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Gault
1956
Highlander
Set Decoration
1986
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Set Dresser
1975
The Remains of the Day
Set Decoration
1993
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Animatronics Designer
1988
The Devils
Set Dresser
1971
To Sir, with Love
Set Dresser
1967
Mirrors
Set Decoration
2008
Anna and the King
Set Decoration
1999
Dangerous Beauty
Set Decoration
1998
Only You
Set Decoration
1994
Howards End
Set Decoration
1992
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Set Decoration
1999
3 Men and a Little Lady
Set Decoration
1990
Dragonslayer
Set Decoration
1981
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Production Design
1986
Juggernaut
Set Dresser
1974
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Set Dresser
1968
The Razor's Edge
Set Decoration
1984
Without a Clue
Set Decoration
1988
Mahler
Art Direction
1974
The Watcher in the Woods
Set Decoration
1980
Into the Storm
Set Decoration
2009
From Time to Time
Set Decoration
2009
The Importance of Being Earnest
Set Decoration
2002
Strange Experiences
Dora's Son
1955
Hanover Street
Set Decoration
1979
Our Mother's House
Set Decoration
1967
The Tempest
Art Direction
1979
Being Julia
Set Decoration
2004
Valentino
Set Dresser
1977
Cuba
Set Decoration
1979
Murder Is Easy
Art Direction
1982
The Old Man and the Sea
Set Decoration
1990
The Revenge of Frankenstein
Boy
1958
Under the Cherry Moon
Set Decoration
1986
Possession
Set Decoration
2002
Downhill Racer
Art Direction
1969
Thomas & Friends: James and the Red Balloon and Other Thomas Adventures
Modeling
2003
The Boy Friend
Set Dresser
1971
The Tiger's Tail
Production Design
2006
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
A.C.2 Milliken
1954
On the Fiddle
Lancing
1961
The Return of the Soldier
Art Direction
1983
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Set Dresser
1976
Richard's Things
Art Direction
1980
Hands of a Murderer
Set Decoration
1990
Catch Us If You Can
Set Dresser
1965
Akenfield
Art Direction
1974
Savage Messiah
Set Dresser
1972
Further Up the Creek
Lofty
1958
The Rainbow
Art Direction
1989
The Secret of Blood Island
Mills
1964
The Missionary
Set Decoration
1982
Joseph Andrews
Set Dresser
1977
Second Fiddle
Delivery Boy
1957
Victory
Set Decoration
1996
Fade to Black
Set Decoration
2006
The Silent Enemy
Ordinary Seaman Thomas
1958
Passage Home
Galley Boy
1955
It's a Great Day
Mechanic
1955
Swallows and Amazons
Set Decoration
1974
Cosh Boy
Alfie Collins
1953
Danger Within
2nd. Lt. Betts-Hanger
1959
Peril for the Guy
Rupert
1956
The Steel Bayonet
Pte. Wilson
1958A Clean Sweep
Dick Watson
1958