---
name: "Andrew Sanders"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/andrew-sanders"
fi1m_id: "andrew-sanders"
imdb_id: "nm0761455"
tmdb_id: 957624
wikidata_id: "Q107000803"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "8 June 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T21:33:56.577258+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Andrew Sanders

## Identity

Andrew Sanders

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/andrew-sanders
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** andrew-sanders
- **IMDb ID:** nm0761455
- **TMDB ID:** 957624
- **Wikidata ID:** Q107000803
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107000803, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957624

Production designer. Born 8 June 1943 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 8 June 1943, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1981–1995
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (1), 1990s 84 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Family 1, Fantasy 1, History 1, Horror 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $209m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107000803, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957624

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Witches*](https://film.one/film/the-witches.md) (82)

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## Biography

Andrew Sanders is a British production designer and art director. Born on 8 June 1943 in Aldershot, Hampshire, he trained as an actor, studying drama at Manchester University before working in theatre, including at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He began in film as an art department assistant and art director on titles including *Quadrophenia* (1979) and *Chariots of Fire* (1981), later serving as production designer on *The Witches* (1990), *Spider* (2002) and *The Golden Bowl* (2000). His art direction credits include *The Last Temptation of Christ* (1988), *Sense and Sensibility* (1995) and *Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence* (1983). Sanders has collaborated with directors such as Nicolas Roeg, Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ang Lee and David Cronenberg. His work on *The Golden Bowl* earned an Evening Standard British Film Award for best technical achievement.

*Sources: imdb.com, encyclopedia.com, en.kinorium.com, catalog.afi.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Sense and Sensibility* (1995), Fi1m 85, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/sense-and-sensibility.md)
- *The Witches* (1990), Fi1m 82, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-witches.md)
- *Chariots of Fire* (1981), Fi1m 78, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/chariots-of-fire.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Day of the Flowers* (2013), Production Design
- *The City of Your Final Destination* (2009), as Caroline's Escort · Production Design
- *The White Countess* (2005), Production Design
- *Blind Flight* (2004), Production Design
- *Spider* (2002), Production Design
- *Possession* (2002), as Art Direction
- *The Golden Bowl* (2000), Production Design
- *All the Little Animals* (1999), Production Design
- *The Wings of the Dove* (1997), Supervising Art Director
- *Victory* (1996), Supervising Art Director
- *Surviving Picasso* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Sense and Sensibility* (1995), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/sense-and-sensibility.md)
- *Little Buddha* (1993), Supervising Art Director
- *K2* (1991), Production Design
- *The Sheltering Sky* (1990), as Art Direction
- *The Witches* (1990), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-witches.md)
- *The Last Temptation of Christ* (1988), as Art Direction
- *Castaway* (1986), Production Design
- *Thirteen at Dinner* (1985), Production Design
- *The Hit* (1984), Production Design
- *Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence* (1983), as Art Direction
- *Shock Treatment* (1981), as Art Direction
- *Chariots of Fire* (1981), as Art Direction — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/chariots-of-fire.md)
- *Bad Timing* (1980), as Art Direction
- *Quadrophenia* (1979), Assistant Art Director
- *Ned Kelly* (1970), as Art Direction

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