- Born
- DiedJanuary 20, 2010 (liver cancer)
- Birth nameIan H. T. Scoones
- Ian Scoones graduated from the Medway College of Art in 1960. He was soon after engaged as assistant to special effects wizard Les Bowie at Hammer's Bray Studio. In addition to creating occasional special effects for big screen horror films (often uncredited), he also constructed some of the miniature models and landscapes used in Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds (1965). In 1970, Scoones joined the BBC Visual Effects Department, where he established his reputation with prodigious work on the cult series Doctor Who (1963). He built almost all of the spacecraft models used in the show during the Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker era, including the excellent Jaggaroth ship from "City of Death" (designed on a model stage built at BBC's Ealing facility) and the Ogron vessel from "Frontier in Space". His numerous other contributions included planetary landscapes, the TARDIS spinning through a temporal vortex in "Pyramids of Mars" and the preliminary designs for K-9.
After "Doctor Who", Scoones went on to work on Blake's 7 (1978), where the budgetary constraints were even tighter (£50 per episode). In 1980, he became special effects supervisor for Hammer House of Horror (1980). From 1994, he lived in retirement, first in Spain, then in Bulgaria, where he died in January 2010 at the age of 69.- IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis
- The British Film Industry needs a life support machine.
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