Marianne Ford, 82, debutante and Bohemian who found her métier as a set designer for top directors in film and TV

[Michael Rhodes]

Marianne Ford, who has died aged 82, was a leading art director for British film and television during the transition to colour TV and the birth of the commercials industry; her company Scenery was pioneering in providing props, wardrobe and decor all in one “wraparound” service, and she worked with directors including Tony Scott, Michael Seresin and Jim Henson....As Tom Baker’s partner in the 1970s she was dubbed ‘Mrs Who’ by neighbours and knitted many replicas of the Doctor’s scarf for charity sales

[Michael Rhodes]

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Marianne Ford, who has died aged 82, was a leading art director for British film and television during the transition to colour TV and the birth of the commercials industry; her company Scenery was pioneering in providing props, wardrobe and decor all in one “wraparound” service, and she worked with directors including Tony Scott, Michael Seresin and Jim Henson....As Tom Baker’s partner in the 1970s she was dubbed ‘Mrs Who’ by neighbours and knitted many replicas of the Doctor’s scarf for charity sales