Michael Wilson was the special effects lighting cameraman for the supermarionation television series Thunderbirds. This included the first series episode The Man from MI.5, which crossed over with the Doctor Who universe by featuring the Daleks. He returned to the DWU five years later in 1970 as the uncredited lighting cameraman on the Doctor Who television story Inferno (INFO: Inferno) and again in 1972 as the uncredited effects cameraman for The Curse of Peladon. (INFO: The Curse of Peladon)
Wilson's only other television credits were as a camera operator on The Telegoons and The Saint, although he worked on a number of films including 2001: A Space Odyssey in an uncredited capacity.