Stephen Nicholas

Nicholas in Dubai for the filming of Planet of the Dead (CON: Desert Storm)

Stephen Nicholas was the supervising art director (or in some cases the chief supervising art director) on most episodes of the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who from Rose through series 5. He has held a similar position on some series 1 episodes of Torchwood, and all of Children of Earth. He was also the chief on a few series 1 episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

He has been a documentary subject of Doctor Who Confidential at least twice, in the episodes which accompanied The Impossible Planet and Planet of the Dead.

His career began in about 1997, when he started working in the art departments of various one-off productions, mainly as a standby art director and forward dresser.

Much of his early career was dominated by an association with Peakviewing Transatlantic PLC, a South African production house. It was in this period that he apparently met and started working with long-term Doctor Who colleague, Jonathan Marquand Allison, on such projects as The Little Unicorn, The Last Leprechaun and Africa.

Credits

As chief supervising art director

• 42
• Blink
• Captain Jack Harkness
• Combat
• Countrycide
• Cyberwoman
• Daleks in Manhattan
• Day One
• The Doctor's Daughter
• End of Days
• The End of Time
• Everything Changes
• Evolution of the Daleks
• The Family of Blood
• The Fires of Pompeii
• Forest of the Dead
• Ghost Machine
• Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Gridlock
• Human Nature
• Invasion of the Bane
• Journey's End
• Last of the Time Lords
• The Lazarus Experiment
• Midnight
• Out of Time
• Partners in Crime
• Planet of the Ood
• The Poison Sky
• Random Shoes
• The Runaway Bride
• The Shakespeare Code
• Silence in the Library
• Small Worlds
• Smith and Jones
• The Sontaran Stratagem
• The Sound of Drums
• The Stolen Earth
• They Keep Killing Suzie
• Turn Left
• The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Utopia
• Voyage of the Damned

As supervising art director

• The Age of Steel
• The Almost People
• Amy's Choice
• Army of Ghosts
• Bad Wolf
• The Beast Below
• The Big Bang
• Children of Earth: Day Five
• Children of Earth: Day Four
• Children of Earth: Day One
• Children of Earth: Day Three
• Children of Earth: Day Two
• The Christmas Invasion
• Closing Time
• Cold Blood
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• Dalek
• Day of the Moon
• The Doctor Dances
• The Doctor's Wife
• Doomsday
• The Eleventh Hour
• The Empty Child
• The End of Time
• The End of the World
• Father's Day
• Fear Her
• Flesh and Stone
• The Girl Who Waited
• The Girl in the Fireplace
• The God Complex
• A Good Man Goes to War
• The Hungry Earth
• The Idiot's Lantern
• The Impossible Astronaut
• The Impossible Planet
• Let's Kill Hitler
• The Lodger
• The Long Game
• Love & Monsters
• User:Mini-mitch/Sandbox Four
• New Earth
• The Next Doctor
• Night Terrors
• The Pandorica Opens
• The Parting of the Ways
• Planet of the Dead
• The Rebel Flesh
• Rise of the Cybermen
• Rose
• The Satan Pit
• School Reunion
• User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 9
• The Time of Angels
• Tooth and Claw
• The Unquiet Dead
• The Vampires of Venice
• Victory of the Daleks
• Vincent and the Doctor
• The Waters of Mars
• The Wedding of River Song
• World War Three

As art director

• A Christmas Carol

External links

• Stephen Nicholas at the Internet Movie Database