# Ray Simm

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British art director

Ray Simm Occupation Art director Years active 1947-1976 (film)

**Ray Simm** was a British [art director](/source/Art_director).[1][2] He was nominated three times for the [BAFTA Award for Best Production Design](/source/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Production_Design) for *[The Slipper and the Rose](/source/The_Slipper_and_the_Rose)*, *[The Wrong Box](/source/The_Wrong_Box)* and *[Darling](/source/Darling_(1965_film))*, for which he won.[3][4][5]

## Selected filmography

- *[The Faithful City](/source/The_Faithful_City)* (1952)

- *[Brandy for the Parson](/source/Brandy_for_the_Parson)* (1952)

- *[You're Only Young Twice](/source/You're_Only_Young_Twice_(film))* (1952)

- *[The Wedding of Lilli Marlene](/source/The_Wedding_of_Lilli_Marlene)* (1953)

- *[Laxdale Hall](/source/Laxdale_Hall)* (1953)

- *[Conflict of Wings](/source/Conflict_of_Wings)* (1954)

- *[A Yank in Ermine](/source/A_Yank_in_Ermine)* (1955)

- *[The Extra Day](/source/The_Extra_Day)* (1956)

- *[The Rising of the Moon](/source/The_Rising_of_the_Moon_(film))* (1957)

- *[Bonjour Tristesse](/source/Bonjour_Tristesse_(1958_film))* (1958)

- *[Idol on Parade](/source/Idol_on_Parade)* (1959)

- *[Killers of Kilimanjaro](/source/Killers_of_Kilimanjaro)* (1959)

- *[Jazz Boat](/source/Jazz_Boat)* (1960)

- *[The Angry Silence](/source/The_Angry_Silence)* (1960)

- *[Tarzan the Magnificent](/source/Tarzan_the_Magnificent)* (1960)

- *[The Hellfire Club](/source/The_Hellfire_Club_(film))* (1961)

- *[Whistle Down the Wind](/source/Whistle_Down_the_Wind_(film))* (1961)

- *[The Mark](/source/The_Mark_(1961_film))* (1961)

- *[All Night Long](/source/All_Night_Long_(1962_film))* (1962)

- *[The Dock Brief](/source/The_Dock_Brief)* (1962)

- *[The L-Shaped Room](/source/The_L-Shaped_Room)* (1962)

- *[A Kind of Loving](/source/A_Kind_of_Loving_(film))* (1962)

- *[Billy Liar](/source/Billy_Liar_(film))* (1963)

- *[Seance on a Wet Afternoon](/source/Seance_on_a_Wet_Afternoon)* (1964)

- *[A Hard Day's Night](/source/A_Hard_Day's_Night_(film))* (1964)

- *[Help!](/source/Help!_(film))* (1965)

- *[Darling](/source/Darling_(1965_film))* (1965)

- *[The Wrong Box](/source/The_Wrong_Box)* (1966)

- *[Deadfall](/source/Deadfall_(1968_film))* (1968)

- *[The Madwoman of Chaillot](/source/The_Madwoman_of_Chaillot_(film))* (1969))

- *[The Breaking of Bumbo](/source/The_Breaking_of_Bumbo)* (1970)

- *[The Reckoning](/source/The_Reckoning_(1970_film))* (1970)

- *[Fragment of Fear](/source/Fragment_of_Fear)* (1970)

- *[Dulcima](/source/Dulcima)* (1971)

- *[Straw Dogs](/source/Straw_Dogs_(1971_film))* (1971)

- *[No Sex Please, We're British](/source/No_Sex_Please%2C_We're_British_(film))* (1973)

- *[Hennessy](/source/Hennessy_(film))* (1975)

- *[The Slipper and the Rose](/source/The_Slipper_and_the_Rose)* (1976)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Gallagher p.537

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Ray Simm"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170518202844/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fd4ea2b). *BFI*. Archived from [the original](https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fd4ea2b) on 18 May 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["1977 Film Production Design | BAFTA Awards"](http://awards.bafta.org/award/1977/film/production-design). *awards.bafta.org*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["BAFTA Awards"](http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film/british-art-direction-colour). *awards.bafta.org*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["BAFTA Awards"](http://awards.bafta.org/award/1966/film/british-art-direction-black-and-white). *awards.bafta.org*.

## Bibliography

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

## External links

- [Ray Simm](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799596/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

v t e BAFTA Award for Best Production Design 1964–1967 Black and White Ken Adam (1964) Ray Simm (1965) Tambi Larsen (1966) No Award (1967) Colour John Bryan (1964) Ken Adam (1965) Wilfred Shingleton (1966) John Box (1967) 1968–present Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, and Anthony Masters (1968) Donald M. Ashton (1969) Mario Garbuglia (1970) Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971) Rolf Zehetbauer (1972) Natasha Kroll (1973) John Box (1974) John Box (1975) Geoffrey Kirkland (1976) Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977) Joe Alves (1978) Michael Seymour (1979) Stuart Craig (1980) Norman Reynolds (1981) Lawrence G. Paull (1982) Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983) Roy Walker (1984) Norman Garwood (1985) Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986) Santo Loquasto (1987) Dean Tavoularis (1988) Dante Ferretti (1989) Richard Sylbert (1990) Bo Welch (1991) Catherine Martin (1992) Andrew McAlpine (1993) Dante Ferretti (1994) Michael Corenblith (1995) Tony Burrough (1996) Catherine Martin (1997) Dennis Gassner (1998) Rick Heinrichs (1999) Arthur Max (2000) Aline Bonetto (2001) Dennis Gassner (2002) William Sandell (2003) Dante Ferretti (2004) Stuart Craig (2005) Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland, and Jennifer Williams (2006) Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007) Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008) Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair (2009) Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, and Doug Mowat (2010) Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011) Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012) Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013) Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014) Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015) Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016) Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, and Shane Vieau (2017) Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018) Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales (2019) Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020) Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021) Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (2022) Shona Heath, James Price, and Zsuzsa Mihalek (2023) Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales (2024) Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau (2025)

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