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Don Homfray (1935–2012) was a BAFTA-winning production designer for the

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. Homfray was born at

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, in 1935. He studied architecture at

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and then worked for the BBC as a production designer in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. Homfray was awarded a BAFTA for his work on the 1972 BBC production of ''

War and Peace ''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...

'', and was nominated for his work on ''Germinal'' (1970) and ''Vienna 1900'' (1973). He designed seven of the plays in the

BBC Television Shakespeare The ''BBC Television Shakespeare'' is a series of British television adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television. Transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to ...

series: ''Henry IV'', Parts 1 and 2 (1979), ''Henry V'' (1979), ''Hamlet'' (1980), ''A Winter's Tale'' (1981), ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1982) and ''The Comedy of Errors'' (1983). He retired in the mid-1990s and went on to take a degree in History from the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

. He died on 12 January 2012.Harris M. Lentz III, ''Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012'' (Jefferson, North Carolina, 2013), p. 134.

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