Nigel Phelps

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nigel Phelps
Occupation	Production Designer
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1962(1962-03-16)
Age	62
Birthplace	Lincolnshire
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Nigel Phelps Biography

Nigel Phelps is one of the most popular and richest Production Designer who was born on March 16, 1962 in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

Nigel Phelps is an English production designer, set designer and conceptual illustrator. Phelps is best known creating the drawings of Gotham City as art director on Tim Burton’s Batman (1989), for which the film’s art department was honored with an Academy Award. Phelps is also a three time MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction nominee.

In the aftermath of Batman Phelps designed the themes for the 1991 Planet Hollywood restaurant in New York. In 1992 DC Comics commissioned Phelps created a new Gotham City that debuted in three issue Destroyer story arc. Phelps was unable to design sets for Batman Returns as he was still employed by Furst in 1991, who had signed an exclusive contract with Columbia Pictures. During this time Phelps had moved to the L.A. area and eventually became a production designer in his own right, making his debut designing Mega-City One in Judge Dredd.

Nigel Phelps Net Worth

Nigel Phelps is one of the richest Production Designer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nigel Phelps 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Phelps originally intended to be a painter. When his grant ran out at art college he had to take a job to put himself through school. During this time he met screenwriter Paul Mayersberg, who was intending to direct his first feature, Captive. Mayersberg hired Phelps as a storyboard artist and mentored Phelps on editing, camera angles and lighting by showing him films like Touch of Evil and The Lady from Shanghai. Mayersberg introduced him to Anton Furst, who hired him as a draftsman/set designer for Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves (1984). This is where his long partnership with Furst was established, as his lead draftsman Phelps would create the set drawings for Furst to sometimes later add details and accents to. Phelps went on to create numerous drawings for Stanley Kubrick’s approval during the long production of Full Metal Jacket. Tim Burton was a fan of Phelps’s drawings from Company of Wolves and was unable to attain his involvement in Beetlejuice, which was filmed in the United States. When production of Burton’s Batman was set up at Pinewood Studios he was hired as art director and gained worldwide attention and acclaim for his drawings of the city and interior sets.

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Nils Ranked on the list of most popular Production Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Nigel Phelps celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.