Eileen Diss, RDI (13 May 1931 – 5 November 2024) was a British set designer for stage, television and film.
[4] Initially focusing on children's programmes such as Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School and Blue Peter, her scope was later broadened and she worked on Zoo Quest, the first major programme to feature David Attenborough, and The Grove Family (1954–1957), Britain's first television soap.
[3] Diss left the BBC in 1957[1] or 1959,[5] and from then onwards worked freelance in theatre, television and on film.
[2] She specialised in period dramas, and she could spend months acquiring suitable items of furniture, ornaments, and other background paraphernalia to create her "meticulous, poetically imagined sets".
[1] He was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and then with British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).