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Raymond Cusick
Raymond Patrick Cusick (28 April 1928 – 21 February 2013) was an English designer for the BBC. He is best known for designing the Daleks, for the science fiction television series…
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Raymond Patrick Cusick (28 April 1928 – 21 February 2013) was an English designer for the BBC. He is best known for designing the Daleks, for the science fiction television series Doctor Who. Cusick joined the BBC in 1960 as a staff designer and was responsible for the set design of many Doctor Who stories, creating not just futuristic settings but also historical sets and dioramas. Another BBC in-house designer, future filmmaker Ridley Scott, had been assigned to design the Daleks in 1963, but scheduling conflicts saw the job handed to Cusick. Cusick worked on other BBC television programmes including The Pallisers, The Duchess of Duke Street, On Giant's Shoulders, When the Boat Comes In, Rentaghost and Miss Marple. As Cusick was a salaried BBC employee at the time he designed the Daleks, he was not paid royalties. Given the large revenue generated by merchandise featuring Cusick's Dalek design, he felt that he should have been paid a royalty (as was script writer Terry Nation, who created the concept of the Daleks but did not design them). When Cusick left Doctor Who in 1966, unhappy with the lack of recognition he had received for his work on the series, the show's producer and head designer did arrange for the BBC to recognise his contribution with an ex-gratia payment of around £100. In the late 1970s, he was a designer for the James Burke BBC programme Connections.
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2023
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Movie Production Design
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2010
Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
Movie Self (As Ray Cusick)
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2010
Daleks! Beyond the Screen
Movie Self (As Ray Cusick)
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2010
Shawcraft: The Original Monster Makers
Movie Self
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2010
Cusick in Cardiff
Movie Self
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2009
The Sets of Marinus
Movie Himself
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2009
What Has 'The Romans' Ever Done For Us?
Movie Self
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2009
Mounting the Rescue
Movie Self
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2006
Creation of the Daleks
Movie Himself
- 2006
- 2006
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1999
Carnival of Monsters
Movie
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1992
Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years
Movie Self
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1987
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Movie Production Design
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1983
The Gathering Seed
TV show Production Design
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1982
Rolling Home
Movie Art Direction
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1981
London Is Drowning
Movie Production Design
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1980
To Serve Them All My Days
TV show Production Design
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1979
On Giant's Shoulders
Movie Production Design
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1975
Madame Bovary
TV show Production Design
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1969
Get Off My Cloud
Movie Production Design
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1968
The Jazz Age
TV show Production Design
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1966
Too Many Cooks
Movie Production Design
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1965
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Movie Production Design
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1965
Out of the Unknown
TV show Production Design
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1965
Doctor Who: The Chase
Movie Production Design
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1965
Doctor Who: The Romans
Movie Production Design
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1965
Doctor Who: The Rescue
Movie Production Design
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1964
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Movie Production Design
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1964
Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction
Movie Art Designer
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1964
Doctor Who: The Daleks
Movie Production Design
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1963
Doctor Who
TV show Production Design
