Syd Cain
| Syd Cain | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sydney Basil Cain 16 April 1918 Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom |
| Died | 21 November 2011 (aged 93) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Production designer |
| Years active | 1962–1980 |
Sydney B. "Syd" Cain (16 April 1918 – 21 November 2011) was a British production designer who worked on more than 30 films, including four in the James Bond series in the 1960s and 1970s.
Cain was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire. After enlisting in the Royal Air Force, he survived a plane crash in Rhodesia during World War II, which broke his back, and also later survived being struck by lightning.
He entered the world of film after the war as a draughtsman. His worked his way up to being an assistant art director with Albert R. Broccoli's and Irving Allen's Warwick Films beginning with Cockleshell Heroes. He became one of Warwick's stock company working on several of Warwick's films including location work on Fire Down Below. He became a full fledged art director after an injury to the planned art director just prior to the filming of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962). After work on the spy spoof Road to Hong Kong Cain rejoined Broccoli's Eon Productions.
Cain's name was accidentally missed off the titles for Dr No, and the producer Cubby Broccoli instead gave him a solid gold pen as it would have cost too much to re-create the titles. For From Russia with Love, Cain designed a $150,000 set for a chess match which repeated the "chess pawn" motif throughout the room. He worked on a number of James Bond movies creating numerous gadgets.
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