Richard Conway

Richard Conway (15 January 1942IMDb-2021DWM 565) was the visual effects designer on the Doctor Who television stories The Seeds of Doom, The Robots of Death, Underworld and The Invasion of Time. In addition, he was an uncredited visual effects assistant on The Green Death (DWM 320), Planet of the Spiders (INFO: Planet of the Spiders) and Terror of the Zygons. (INFO: Terror of the Zygons)
== Career ==
He went on to have a long and distinguished career in special effects, mostly for theatrical films, and was still active until 2015. Amongst the many films on which he's provided a leading role in the special effects department are: ; with Chipo Chung; with Rowan Atkinson; Richard Curtis' Love Actually with Bill Nighy; and with Bill Paterson, Jonathan Pryce and Don Henderson. For this latter film, he received an Academy Award nomination, making him one of the few people associated with Doctor Who to ever be considered for the prize.
He won a BAFTA film Award for his work on . He is also a double Emmy winner — once for Alice in Wonderland (1999), featuring Joanna Lumley and Sheila Hancock, and again for the 1998 mini-series , starring .
== Death ==
He passed away in 2021. (DWM 565)
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== Footnotes ==
Category:Doctor Who visual effects designers
Category:Emmy Award winners
Category:BAFTA award winners
Category:Academy Award nominees
Category:Saturn Award nominees
Category:BAFTA award nominees
Category:Doctor Who visual effects assistants