---
name: "David Butterworth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-butterworth"
fi1m_id: "david-butterworth"
imdb_id: "nm0125326"
tmdb_id: 1181406
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T13:42:18.541067+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."
---

# David Butterworth

## Identity

David Butterworth

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-butterworth
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-butterworth
- **IMDb ID:** nm0125326
- **TMDB ID:** 1181406
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125326/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181406

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2003–2011
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125326/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181406

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Kill List*](https://film.one/film/kill-list.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

David Butterworth is a British production designer who has worked extensively in film and television. He is credited as production designer on the feature film *Kill List* (2011), directed by Ben Wheatley.

His television credits include the long-running BBC Three series *Ideal* (2005–2010), for which he designed 41 episodes, as well as *The Secret of Crickley Hall* (2012), *In the Dark* (2017), *Broken* (2017) and later series such as *Death in Paradise* (2022–2023) and *The Tower* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, berlinassociates.com, davidbutterworth.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Kill List* (2011), Fi1m 82, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/kill-list.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Unforgivable* (2025), Production Design
- *In the Dark* (2017), series, Production Design
- *The Secret of Crickley Hall* (2012), series, Production Design
- *The Body Farm* (2011), series, Production Design
- *Kill List* (2011), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/kill-list.md)
- *Inn Mates* (2010), as Decorator
- *Magnificent 7* (2005), Production Design
- *Buried* (2003), series, Production Design
- *Going Off Big Time* (2000), Production Design
- *The Ebb-Tide* (1998), as Art Direction
- *This Is the Sea* (1997), as Art Direction
- *The Peacock Spring* (1996), as Art Direction

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