---
name: "Paul Cripps"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-cripps"
fi1m_id: "paul-cripps"
imdb_id: "nm0187915"
tmdb_id: 1426835
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T14:16:00.729461+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."
---

# Paul Cripps

## Identity

Paul Cripps

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-cripps
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-cripps
- **IMDb ID:** nm0187915
- **TMDB ID:** 1426835
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1426835

Production designer. Born in Woodstock, near Oxford, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Tom Shankland](https://film.one/person/tom-shankland.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 69 (2), 2010s 78 (2), 2020s 78 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 2, Crime 2, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $10m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1426835

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Missing*](https://film.one/tv/the-missing-2014.md) (83), [*Ted Lasso*](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md) (78)
- **Disney+:** [*Bones*](https://film.one/tv/bones.md) (70)
- **Discovery+:** [*Sugar Rush*](https://film.one/tv/sugar-rush.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Paul Cripps is a British production designer and art director. He grew up in Woodstock, near Oxford, and studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art before completing a master's in film and television design at the Royal College of Art. He began his career art directing entertainment programmes such as TFI Friday and The Brits, later moving into drama and beginning his work as a production designer on the Channel 4 series As If.

Cripps has worked as production designer on series including The Missing (2014), Skins and Ted Lasso (2020). He has also contributed art direction to films such as 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2010). He received three Primetime Emmy nominations for outstanding production design on Ted Lasso.

*Sources: imdb.com, variety.com, creativemediamanagement.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Ted Lasso* (2020), Fi1m 78, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md)
- *The Missing* (2014), Fi1m 83, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-missing-2014.md)
- *Never Let Me Go* (2010), Fi1m 73, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/never-let-me-go.md)
- *Bones* (2005), Fi1m 70, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *Sugar Rush* (2005), Fi1m 68, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/sugar-rush.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *SAS Rogue Heroes* (2022), series, Production Design
- *The Score* (2022), Production Design
- *Ted Lasso* (2020), series, Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md)
- *The Missing* (2014), series, Production Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-missing-2014.md)
- *Skins: Rise* (2013), Production Design
- *Skins: Fire* (2013), Production Design
- *uwantme2killhim?* (2013), Production Design
- *The Poison Tree* (2012), series, Production Design
- *Dredd* (2012), as Art Direction
- *The Borrowers* (2011), Production Design
- *Albatross* (2011), Production Design
- *The Scouting Book for Boys* (2010), Production Design
- *Never Let Me Go* (2010), as Art Direction — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/never-let-me-go.md)
- *Sinchronicity* (2006), series, Production Design
- *Bones* (2005), series, Production Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *Sugar Rush* (2005), series, Production Design — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/sugar-rush.md)
- *24 Hour Party People* (2002), Supervising Art Director
- *Wild About Harry* (2000), as Art Direction
- *Pantyhead*, Art Department Assistant

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