---
name: "William Dudley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-dudley"
fi1m_id: "william-dudley"
imdb_id: "nm3561956"
tmdb_id: 1155250
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "4 March 1947"
died: "31 May 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:19:56.231111+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."
---

# William Dudley

## Identity

William Dudley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/william-dudley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** william-dudley
- **IMDb ID:** nm3561956
- **TMDB ID:** 1155250
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3561956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1155250

Production designer. Born 4 March 1947 in Islington, London, England. Died 31 May 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 4 March 1947, Islington, London, England
- **Died:** 31 May 2025
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3561956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1155250

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Persuasion*](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md) (84)

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## Biography

William Dudley (4 March 1947 – 31 May 2025) was a British theatre and production designer. He studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art, and began designing productions in 1970. He worked extensively for the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as on opera productions at the Royal Opera House, Bayreuth Festival and other venues.

Dudley received multiple Olivier Awards for his stage designs. His film credit includes production design on the 1995 BBC adaptation of *Persuasion* (directed by Roger Michell), for which he shared a BAFTA Television Award for Best Design with Brian Sykes; he also received a Royal Television Society award for the same production. He was appointed OBE in 2021 for services to stage design. He was married to theatre director Lucy Bailey.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Persuasion* (1995), Fi1m 84, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann* (2016), Set Designer
- *Sunday In the Park with George* (2013), as Projection · Set Designer
- *Persuasion* (1995), Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md)
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (1985), Scenic Artist
- *Les Contes d'Hoffmann* (1981), Production Design

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