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Raymond Cusick

Known For
Art

Known Credits
12

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 28, 1928 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Raymond Cusick

Biography

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.

Known For

Art

2023Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour...Production Design
1987Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington...Production Design
1983The Gathering Seed...Production Design
1982Rolling Home...Art Direction
1981London Is Drowning...Production Design
1980To Serve Them All My Days...Production Design
1979On Giant's Shoulders...Production Design
1975Madame Bovary...Production Design
1969Get Off My Cloud...Production Design
1968The Jazz Age...Production Design
1966Too Many Cooks...Production Design
1965Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan...Production Design
1965Out of the Unknown...Production Design
1965Doctor Who: The Chase...Production Design
1965Doctor Who: The Romans...Production Design
1965Doctor Who: The Rescue...Production Design
1964Doctor Who: Planet of Giants...Production Design
1964Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction...Art Designer
1964Doctor Who: The Daleks...Production Design
1963Doctor Who...Production Design

Acting

2010Cusick in Cardiffas Self
2010Daleks! Beyond the Screenas Self (As Ray Cusick)
2010Daleks! Conquer and Destroyas Self (As Ray Cusick)
2010Shawcraft: The Original Monster Makersas Self
2009The Sets of Marinusas Himself
2009What Has 'The Romans' Ever Done For Us?as Self
2009Mounting the Rescueas Self
2006Creation of the Daleksas Himself
2006Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDISas Self
2006Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'as Self
1999Carnival of Monstersas
1992Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Yearsas Self