Roy Forge Smith was born in 1929. He trained as a fine artist and an architect in London before working in the art department of BBC television in the early 1960s. His first film credit was as an assistant art director on 'The Wrong Box' and throughout the 1960s and 1970s worked on a number of British films including for the Monty Python team. In 1980 he moved to Canada and then n the mid-1980s to Los Angeles, working in both film an d television, his last credits being for the TV series 'Ghost Hunter' in the late 2000s.