---
name: "Roger Murray-Leach"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roger-murray-leach"
fi1m_id: "roger-murray-leach"
imdb_id: "nm0494861"
tmdb_id: 8936
wikidata_id: "Q7358701"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "25 June 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T15:37:13.559501+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."
---

# Roger Murray-Leach

## Identity

Roger Murray-Leach

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roger-murray-leach
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roger-murray-leach
- **IMDb ID:** nm0494861
- **TMDB ID:** 8936
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7358701
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murray-Leach, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358701, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8936

Production designer. Born 25 June 1943 in United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 25 June 1943, United Kingdom
- **Active:** 1963–1988
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 81 (1), 1980s 84 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 81 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Action & Adventure 1, Crime 1, History 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $229m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murray-Leach, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358701, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8936

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Local Hero*](https://film.one/film/local-hero.md) (86)
- **Apple TV:** [*A Fish Called Wanda*](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md) (83)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md) (81)

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## Biography

Roger Murray-Leach (born 25 June 1943) is a British production designer. He trained as an architect before joining the BBC design department in 1966.

At the BBC he worked on *Doctor Who* from 1975, designing sets for serials under producer Philip Hinchcliffe, and on *Blake's 7*, for which he designed the Liberator spacecraft. He left the BBC staff in the early 1980s and moved into feature films.

His film credits as production designer include *Local Hero* (1983), *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), *The Mighty Quinn* (1989) and *Fierce Creatures* (1997). He was art director on *The Killing Fields* (1984) and received a BAFTA nomination for the 1981 television series *Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years*.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), Fi1m 83, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md)
- *The Killing Fields* (1984), Fi1m 82, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-fields.md)
- *Local Hero* (1983), Fi1m 86, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/local-hero.md)
- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis* (2021), Production Designer, Production Design
- *James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty* (2014), Production Design
- *The Film-Maker's Son* (2013), Production Design
- *The Tin Men and the Witch* (2010), Actor
- *Florence Nightingale* (2008), Production Design
- *A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil* (2007), Actor
- *C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia* (2005), Production Design
- *Serial Thrillers* (2004), Actor
- *The Story of Doctor Who* (2003), Actor
- *Trust* (2000), Production Design
- *Ain't Misbehavin'* (1997), series, Production Design
- *Fierce Creatures* (1997), Production Design
- *Good King Wenceslas* (1994), Production Design
- *Twenty-One* (1991), Production Design
- *Goldeneye* (1989), Production Design
- *The Mighty Quinn* (1989), Production Design
- *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), Production Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md)
- *Hearts of Fire* (1987), Production Design
- *Blake's 7: Duel* (1986), Production Design
- *Defence of the Realm* (1986), Production Design
- *Blake's 7: The Beginning* (1985), Production Design
- *The Killing Fields* (1984), as Art Direction — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-fields.md)
- *A Christmas Carol* (1984), Production Design
- *Local Hero* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/local-hero.md)
- *Tangiers* (1982), Production Design
- *Langrishe, Go Down* (1978), Production Design
- *Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm* (1978), series, Production Design
- *Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang* (1977), Production Design
- *Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin* (1976), Production Design
- *Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom* (1976), Production Design
- *Doctor Who: Planet of Evil* (1975), Production Design
- *Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen* (1975), Production Design
- *Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment* (1975), Production Design
- *Doctor Who: The Ark in Space* (1975), Production Design
- *Doctor Who* (1963), series, Production Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

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