Derek Meddings
Derek Meddings was a British film and television special effects designer, initially noted for his work on the Supermarionation TV puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson, and later for the 1970s and 1980s James Bond and Superman film series.
Derek Meddings was born in St Pancras, London, England. Both Meddings parents had worked in the British film industry his father as a carpenter at Denham Studios and his mother as producer Alex Kordas secretary and actress Merle Oberons standin. Meddings went to art school and, in the late 1940s, also found work at Denham Studios, lettering credit titles. It was there that he met effects designer Les Bowie and joined his matte painting department.
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