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Jan 01, 0001 Died on 21 Apr 2018 (aged 2017)

British television director and film editor

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About Desmond Saunders

  • Desmond "Des" Saunders (24 June 1926 – 21 April 2018) was a British television director and film editor.He had a long association with producer Gerry Anderson, having served as a director for the series Supercar (1961–62), Stingray (1964–65), Thunderbirds (1965–66), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68), Joe 90 (1968–69) and Terrahawks (1983–86).
  • Saunders was also production controller for Joe 90 and co-wrote one of the episodes, "Lone-Handed 90".
  • He briefly worked as a production supervisor for The Secret Service (1969). Elsewhere in television, Saunders had both production and post-production roles for The Protectors (1972–73). His film editing credits are: RX for Murder (1958), A Woman's Temptation (1959), Escort for Hire (1960), Compelled (1960), Tarnished Heroes and So Evil, So Young (both 1961) and Voyage of the Damned (1976).
  • He was sound editor for Floods of Fear (1959).While working on puppet series for Anderson, the A.P.
  • Films team received constant requests to make the puppets more real.
  • Once, Saunders chose all of the male puppets and put little penises on them.
  • When the girls came in during the morning, there was, as Saunders describes, "the most terrible uproar".
  • In response, he said: "Well, you know, you gotta bring them to life somehow, haven't you?".He died on 21 April 2018 at the age of 91.

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