Special effects supervisor and coordinator who started work at a local theater known as The Hackney Empire, in East London, training to be a theater electrician. After five years at that job, he got a job at Pinewood Film Studios and got involved with small special effects on a couple of movies. After this job at Pinewood he got a start with Gerry Anderson's puppet series "Thunderbirds" as a special effects assistant, helping to build and assemble the sets. Notable film credits include CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (1969), THE OMEN (1976), SUPERMAN (1978), ARABIAN ADVENTURE (1979), FLASH GORDON (1980), THE APPOINTMENT, EYE OF THE NEEDLE and RAGTIME (all 1981), CONAN THE BARBARIAN, BRITANNIA HOSPITAL and TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER (all 1982), MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE and CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER (both 1983), INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984), BRAZIL (1985), LABYRINTH (1986), ISHTAR (1987), WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT and A FISH CALLED WANDA (both 1988), INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989 - mechanical effects supervisor), AIR AMERICA (1990), YEAR OF THE COMET, PATRIOT GAMES and ALIEN3 (all 1992), FIRST KNIGHT (1995), 101 DALMATIANS (1996 - mechanical effects supervisor), SPLITTING HEIRS (1993), FIRST KNIGHT (1995), 101 DALMATIANS (1996), THE SAINT and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE (both 1997), THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK and ELIZABETH (both 1998), HOTEL SPLENDIDE and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (both 2000), FROM HELL (2001), I SPY (2002), and DOOM (2005).  Visual Effects 1984: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (w. Dennis Muren, Lorne Peterson & Michael McAlister)  Visual Effects 1988: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (w. Ken Ralston, Richard Williams & Edward Jones)  Nominated for Visual Effects 1992: ALIEN3 (w. Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff, Jr.) 3 nominations, 2 Awards