Biography:
 Date of birth 15 January 1931 London, England, UK
Date of death 10 September 1995 London, England, UK.
 

                     MEDDINGS: Well, I got into it by accident really, because when I came into the
                     film industry, the only way I could get in was to do titles for pictures and this
                     was really boring as far as I was concerned, since I had trained as an artist. It
                     was actually Les Bowie who started me off by getting me a job with him doing
                     matte paintings. This was really the job I wanted to do. I wanted to be an artist
                     in the film industry. Originally I wanted to be in the Art Department. Having met
                     Les I decided that the sort of work he was doing - matte paintings - was the
                     type of work I wanted to do. When we started doing matte paintings, it was a
                     highly skilled job, but people were afraid of mattes. They always remembered
                     the worst matte that they'd ever seen, so they would avoid putting mattes into
                     their pictures if they could get away with doing it some other way. Now, of
                     course, matte painting has become a very important part of the film industry.
                     With pictures like STAR WARS, they have to use a lot of matte shots and very
                     good ones. At this particular time there were very few mattes on pictures, so
                     in between doing matte paintings, we had to find something else to do. Les
                     was also very good at doing miniatures and I would help him. That's how I got
                     involved with miniatures. Although I do all types of effects, I seem to have got
                     myself lumbered, for want of a better word, with just doing miniatures on a
                     picture. On a Bond picture, I supervise all of the effects.
 

Biographical information from a interview that you can red at:
http://www.ianfleming.org/mkkbb/magazine/81acm3.shtml
 

Another Derek Medding´s biography.
http://ufoseries.com/marketing/invasionBook.txt

http://tb1_5.tripod.com/dm.html

Supergirl`s director, Jeannot Schwartz talks about Meddings.
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/palace/3454/jeannotsupergirl.html
 
 
 
 

Filmography:

- GoldenEye (1995) (miniature effects supervisor)

Derek Meddings seated on a snow landscape miniature.
 

- The NeverEnding Story III (1994) (visual effects supervisor)
- Cape Fear (1991) (miniature special effects supervisor: The Magic Camera Company)
- Hudson Hawk (1991) (visual effects and miniature supervisor)
- The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) (visual effects supervisor)
- Batman (1989) (special visual effects)
- High Spirits (1988) (special visual effects)
- Mio min Mio (1987) (special effects) ( Mio in the Land of Faraway)
- Spies Like Us (1985) (visual effects supervisor)
- Santa Claus (1985) (miniature effects director) (visual effects director)
- Supergirl (1984) (special visual effects)
- Krull (1983) (visual effects supervisor)
- Superman III (1983) (additional model effects) (uncredited)
- For Your Eyes Only (1981) (visual effects supervisor)
- Superman II (1980) (miniature effects supervisor)
- Moonraker (1979) (visual effects supervisor)
- Superman (1978) (model effects)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) (special visual effects)

 

- Shout at the Devil (1976) (models and special effects)
-  Aces High (1976) (special effects)
- The Land That Time Forgot (1975) (special effects supervisor)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) (miniatures)
- Live and Let Die (1973) (special effects)
- Z.P.G. (1972) (special effects)
- Fear Is the Key (1972) (special effects)
- "UFO" (1970) TV Series (visual effects director) (visual effects supervisor)

 

A sample of Derek Meddings art work for TV Series UFO.
 

- Doppelgänger (1969) (visual effects) (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) (USA)
- "The Secret Service" (1969) TV Series (visual effects director)
- "Joe 90" (1968) TV Series (supervising visual effects director)
- Thunderbird 6 (1968) (visual effects director)
- "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" (1967) TV Series (visual effects supervisor)
- Thunderbirds Are GO (1966) (visual effects director)
- "Thunderbirds" (1964) TV Series (special effects supervisor)
- "Stingray" (1963) TV Series (special effects director)
- "Fireball XL5" (1962) TV Series (special effects)
- "Supercar" (1960) TV Series (special effects)
- Dracula (1958) ( matte painting)
- The Crawling eye (1958) (matte painter/ miniatures)
 
 
 

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