Ray Simm

{{Short description|British art director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Ray Simm | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1947-1976 (film) }} '''Ray Simm''' was a British [[art director]].<ref>Gallagher p.537</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fd4ea2b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518202844/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fd4ea2b|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 May 2017|title=Ray Simm|website=BFI}}</ref> He was nominated three times for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Production Design]] for ''[[The Slipper and the Rose]]'', ''[[The Wrong Box]]'' and ''[[Darling (1965 film)|Darling]]'', for which he won.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1977/film/production-design|title=1977 Film Production Design | BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film/british-art-direction-colour|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1966/film/british-art-direction-black-and-white|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''[[The Faithful City]]'' (1952) * ''[[Brandy for the Parson]]'' (1952) * ''[[You're Only Young Twice (film)|You're Only Young Twice]]'' (1952) * ''[[The Wedding of Lilli Marlene]]'' (1953) * ''[[Laxdale Hall]]'' (1953) * ''[[Conflict of Wings]]'' (1954) * ''[[A Yank in Ermine]]'' (1955) * ''[[The Extra Day]]'' (1956) * ''[[The Rising of the Moon (film)|The Rising of the Moon]]'' (1957) * ''[[Bonjour Tristesse (1958 film)|Bonjour Tristesse]]'' (1958) * ''[[Idol on Parade]]'' (1959) * ''[[Killers of Kilimanjaro]]'' (1959) * ''[[Jazz Boat]]'' (1960) * ''[[The Angry Silence]]'' (1960) * ''[[Tarzan the Magnificent]]'' (1960) * ''[[The Hellfire Club (film)|The Hellfire Club]]'' (1961) * ''[[Whistle Down the Wind (film)|Whistle Down the Wind]]'' (1961) * ''[[The Mark (1961 film)|The Mark]]'' (1961) * ''[[All Night Long (1962 film)|All Night Long]]'' (1962) * ''[[The Dock Brief]]'' (1962) * ''[[The L-Shaped Room]]'' (1962) * ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962) * ''[[Billy Liar (film)|Billy Liar]]'' (1963) * ''[[Seance on a Wet Afternoon]]'' (1964) * ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964) * ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]'' (1965) * ''[[Darling (1965 film)|Darling]]'' (1965) * ''[[The Wrong Box]]'' (1966) * ''[[Deadfall (1968 film)|Deadfall]]'' (1968) * ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot (film)|The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'' (1969)) * ''[[The Breaking of Bumbo]]'' (1970) * ''[[The Reckoning (1970 film)|The Reckoning]]'' (1970) * ''[[Fragment of Fear]]'' (1970) * ''[[Dulcima]]'' (1971) * ''[[Straw Dogs (1971 film)|Straw Dogs]]'' (1971) * ''[[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|No Sex Please, We're British]]'' (1973) * ''[[Hennessy (film)|Hennessy]]'' (1975) * ''[[The Slipper and the Rose]]'' (1976) {{div col end}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Tag Gallagher. ''John Ford: The Man and His Films''. University of California Press, 1988.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0799596}}

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