---
name: "Martin Laing"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martin-laing"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T17:06:51.234737+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."
---

# Martin Laing

Production designer. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 1997–2009
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2000s 49 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Laing_(production_designer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3295501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8525

## Biography

Martin Laing is a British production designer. He is the son of Academy Award-winning production designer Robert W. Laing. After attending design college in London, he joined the film industry in 1985 and moved to Los Angeles in 1993.

Laing worked as an art director on *Titanic* (1997) and received the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Award for his contribution. As production designer his credits include *Ghosts of the Abyss* (2003), *City of Ember* (2008), *Terminator Salvation* (2009), *Clash of the Titans* (2010) and *This Means War* (2012). He was nominated for a Satellite Award for *City of Ember*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, editorial.rottentomatoes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Terminator Salvation* (2009), Fi1m 49, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-salvation.md)
- *Titanic* (1997), Fi1m 84, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/titanic.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Vacation Friends 2* (2023), Production Design
- *The Rescue* (2020), Production Design
- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows* (2016), Production Design
- *This Means War* (2012), Production Design
- *Clash of the Titans* (2010), Production Design
- *Terminator Salvation* (2009), Production Design — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-salvation.md)
- *City of Ember* (2008), Production Design
- *Ghosts of the Abyss* (2003), Production Design
- *Pearl Harbor* (2001), Supervising Art Director
- *The Haunting* (1999), as Art Direction
- *In Dreams* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Titanic* (1997), as Promenade Deck Steward, Art Direction — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/titanic.md)
- *Judge Dredd* (1995), Assistant Art Director
- *True Lies* (1994), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/true-lies.md)
- *The Bourne Identity* (1988), series, Assistant Set Designer

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/martin-laing