Roy Oxley
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Roy Oxley (9 March 1905 – 1980)Template:Citation needed was a production designer at BBC Television who became famous after the BBC chose him to model for a photograph to be shown during their adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Oxley began working in set design in 1948, as an art decorator in the film London Belongs to Me.Template:Citation needed He also supervised the art decoration of the 1949 film, Passport to Pimlico.<ref>Ede, Laurie N. (2010). No Sets Please, We're British! Realist Traditions of British Film Production Design. Design Principles & Practice: An International Journal 4(4): 395–404, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}</ref>
Oxley had been working for some years as set decorator for BBC when he was chosen, as an in-house joke, to model for the character of "Big Brother" in Nineteen Eighty-Four.<ref>Tom Fordy (8 May 2022). How the 'unadulterated horror' of Orwell created TV's first moral panic. The Sunday Telegraph, p. 24</ref><ref>Graeme Burk, Robert Smith. Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die—An Unofficial Companion, p. 91 (ECW Press; 2013) Template:Isbn</ref><ref name=Ryan>David Ryan. George Orwell on Screen: Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television, pp. 30–31 (McFarland; 2018) Template:Isbn</ref> "Big Brother" was not actually a participating character in the programme; his face was only shown on various posters and billboards seen during the adaptation.
Oxley worked at several other productions as a production designer with the BBC, including seven episodes of the Douglas Wilmer version of Sherlock Holmes, various episodes of Z-CarsTemplate:Citation needed and an adaptation for television of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood.<ref>Wrigley, Amanda (2014). Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, 'a Play for Voices' on Radio, Stage and Television. Critical Studies in Television 9(3): 77–88 {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}</ref> In 1969, he won a BAFTA Award for Production Design for his work of the BBC play The Portrait of a Lady.<ref>Television | Design in 1969, BAFTA (Retrieved 2 October 2022)</ref>
Personal life
He was married to Gladys Jean Jones; they had two children.<ref name=Ryan />
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External links
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