Known For
Art
Known Credits
12
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 28, 1928 (98 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Daleks! Beyond the Screen
Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
Shawcraft: The Original Monster Makers
Carnival of Monsters
Creation of the Daleks
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'
Mounting the Rescue
What Has 'The Romans' Ever Done For Us?
Cusick in Cardiff
| 2023 | Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour...Production Design | |
| 1987 | Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington...Production Design | |
| 1983 | The Gathering Seed...Production Design | |
| 1982 | Rolling Home...Art Direction | |
| 1981 | London Is Drowning...Production Design | |
| 1980 | To Serve Them All My Days...Production Design | |
| 1979 | On Giant's Shoulders...Production Design | |
| 1975 | Madame Bovary...Production Design | |
| 1969 | Get Off My Cloud...Production Design | |
| 1968 | The Jazz Age...Production Design | |
| 1966 | Too Many Cooks...Production Design | |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan...Production Design | |
| 1965 | Out of the Unknown...Production Design | |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Chase...Production Design | |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Romans...Production Design | |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Rescue...Production Design | |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: Planet of Giants...Production Design | |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction...Art Designer | |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Daleks...Production Design | |
| 1963 | Doctor Who...Production Design |
| 2010 | Cusick in Cardiffas Self | |
| 2010 | Daleks! Beyond the Screenas Self (As Ray Cusick) | |
| 2010 | Daleks! Conquer and Destroyas Self (As Ray Cusick) | |
| 2010 | Shawcraft: The Original Monster Makersas Self | |
| 2009 | The Sets of Marinusas Himself | |
| 2009 | What Has 'The Romans' Ever Done For Us?as Self | |
| 2009 | Mounting the Rescueas Self | |
| 2006 | Creation of the Daleksas Himself | |
| 2006 | Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDISas Self | |
| 2006 | Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'as Self | |
| 1999 | Carnival of Monstersas | |
| 1992 | Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Yearsas Self |