Crispian Sallis
- Set Decorator
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for James Cameron's 'Aliens', Bruce Beresford's 'Driving Miss Daisy' and Sir Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator' and nominated two years in succession for a Primetime Emmy for 'The Tudors', winning one.
Other films Crispian has set decorated include Oliver Stone's 'JFK', Terry Gilliam's 'Twelve Monkey's', Michael Cimino's 'Desperate Hours', Paul Anderson's 'Event Horizon', Mike Figgis' 'The Browning Version', Stephen Sommer's 'The Jungle Book', Neil Jordan's 'Breakfast on Pluto', Sir Ridley Scott's 'Hannibal' and Tony Scott's 'Revenge', 'Top Secret', as well as James Bond films, 'Octopussy' and 'A View To A Kill', Brian Helgeland's 'Legend', and many others.
Crispian started in the film industry straight from school as P.A. to the Director, Michael Winner, on 'The Big Sleep' starring Robert Mitchum, James Stewart and Oliver Reed. He then joined Ridley Scott's 'Alien' as the production office Runner before being moved to the Art Department by Sir Ridley and then UK Head of Twentieth Century Fox, Peter Beale, when they spotted him sketching the spaceship Nostromo. He has worked in film art departments ever since... Work as the Junior Draughtsman on Herbert Ross' 'Nijinsky' and Franklin Shaffner's 'Sphinx' followed. He was 20 years old when, as a Draughtsman on his first 007 film, 'For Your Eyes Only', he was asked by Production Designer Peter Lamont to set decorate his first film sets, Margaret Thatcher's kitchen in No.10 Downing Street and Q's Laboratory. This work led directly to dozens of films as the Set Decorator before he started his many films as a Production Designer, often combining the two roles.
Films as Production Designer include Nobel Laureate J.M.Coetzee's 'Waiting for the Barbarians' starring Sir Mark Rylance and Johnny Depp, directed by Ciro Guerra and produced by Michael Fitzgerald, and James Strong's 'Words of War' starring Maxine Peake, Ciaran Hinds and Jason Isaac, Eran Creevy's 'Welcome to the Punch' starring James McAvoy and Mark Strong and Brad Furman's 'Tin Soldier', starring Scott Eastwood, Jamie Foxx and Robert de Niro.
Crispian's father was the celebrated British character actor, Peter Sallis O.B.E., famous for providing the voice of Wallace in Aardman's adored Wallace and Gromit films, plus thirty-seven years as 'Clegg' in the BBC's longest ever running comedy series, 'Last of the Summer Wine'.
Other films Crispian has set decorated include Oliver Stone's 'JFK', Terry Gilliam's 'Twelve Monkey's', Michael Cimino's 'Desperate Hours', Paul Anderson's 'Event Horizon', Mike Figgis' 'The Browning Version', Stephen Sommer's 'The Jungle Book', Neil Jordan's 'Breakfast on Pluto', Sir Ridley Scott's 'Hannibal' and Tony Scott's 'Revenge', 'Top Secret', as well as James Bond films, 'Octopussy' and 'A View To A Kill', Brian Helgeland's 'Legend', and many others.
Crispian started in the film industry straight from school as P.A. to the Director, Michael Winner, on 'The Big Sleep' starring Robert Mitchum, James Stewart and Oliver Reed. He then joined Ridley Scott's 'Alien' as the production office Runner before being moved to the Art Department by Sir Ridley and then UK Head of Twentieth Century Fox, Peter Beale, when they spotted him sketching the spaceship Nostromo. He has worked in film art departments ever since... Work as the Junior Draughtsman on Herbert Ross' 'Nijinsky' and Franklin Shaffner's 'Sphinx' followed. He was 20 years old when, as a Draughtsman on his first 007 film, 'For Your Eyes Only', he was asked by Production Designer Peter Lamont to set decorate his first film sets, Margaret Thatcher's kitchen in No.10 Downing Street and Q's Laboratory. This work led directly to dozens of films as the Set Decorator before he started his many films as a Production Designer, often combining the two roles.
Films as Production Designer include Nobel Laureate J.M.Coetzee's 'Waiting for the Barbarians' starring Sir Mark Rylance and Johnny Depp, directed by Ciro Guerra and produced by Michael Fitzgerald, and James Strong's 'Words of War' starring Maxine Peake, Ciaran Hinds and Jason Isaac, Eran Creevy's 'Welcome to the Punch' starring James McAvoy and Mark Strong and Brad Furman's 'Tin Soldier', starring Scott Eastwood, Jamie Foxx and Robert de Niro.
Crispian's father was the celebrated British character actor, Peter Sallis O.B.E., famous for providing the voice of Wallace in Aardman's adored Wallace and Gromit films, plus thirty-seven years as 'Clegg' in the BBC's longest ever running comedy series, 'Last of the Summer Wine'.
