Clifford Hatts

Clifford Hatts was born on 10/11/1921 in London to shipping clerk Harold and his gymnast wife Harriet. In 1933 he started to attend Woolwich Polytechnic Junior School of Art and, after war service with the RAF, went on to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1949. In 1955 he joined the then new ITV as a designer, receiving praise for his set for the play 'Mother Courage' and subsequently worked on a variety of television plays from Shakespearean histories to Doctor Who and 'Quatermass and the Pit'. He received a BAFTA award in 1961 and an O.B.E. in 1980. He died on July 27 2015.