Richard Conway

Richard Conway was the visual effects designer on the Doctor Who television stories The Seeds of Doom, The Robots of Death, Underworld and The Invasion of Time. In addition, he and Colin Mapson were the uncredited visual effects assistants on The Green Death. (DWM 320)

He went on to have a long and distinguished career in special effects, mostly for theatrical films, and was still active until 2015. Amongst the many films on which he's provided a leading role in the special effects department are: ; with Chipo Chung;  with Rowan Atkinson; Richard Curtis' Love Actually with Bill Nighy; and  with Bill Paterson, Jonathan Pryce and Don Henderson. For this latter film, he received an Academy Award nomination, making him one of the few people associated with Doctor Who to ever be considered for the prize.

He won a BAFTA film Award for his work on. He is also a double Emmy winner — once for Alice in Wonderland (1999), featuring Joanna Lumley and Sheila Hancock, and again for the 1998 mini-series, starring.