Robert Fuest (30 September 1927 – 21 March 2012) was an English film and television director, screenwriter, production designer, and painter,[1] who worked mostly in the horror, fantasy and suspense genres.

[1] Born in London, Fuest served his national service in post-war Germany with the Royal Air Force, air-lifting coal over the Berlin Wall, after which he attended Wimbledon and Hornsey Schools of Art.

[citation needed] In the early sixties, he designed sets for television programmes such as ITV Play of the Week and Armchair Theatre.

Fuest later admitted (on a DVD commentary for the Avengers episode "Game") that Hammond's visual style proved a major influence, and opened him up to the stylistic possibilities of film and TV.

The latter movie received such scathing reviews[4] it may have ended his career,[5] as Fuest immediately thereafter found himself relegated to directing fairly anonymous television work.