Voytek, or Wojciech Roman Pawel Jerzy Szendzikowski (15 January 1925 in Warsaw, Poland – 7 August 2014 in London, United Kingdom), was a leading production designer, for British stage and television, for which he also directed, wrote and produced.
Arriving in Scotland in 1946,[1] he enrolled at Dundee Art College, before joining the Old Vic's Theatre School the following year as a stage design student.
He worked on plays featuring many stars of the era including Diana Dors, Patrick Macnee and Leo McKern, with screenplays written by William Saroyan, Michael Meyer and many other young writers.
In 1961, he won a Guild of Television Producers and Directors Award for his contribution to the series;[2] while the same year he collected the TV drama design Bafta for The Rose Affair, a modern, styled version of Beauty and the Beast.
His later stage work included Ronald Eyre's production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971, and The Marquis of Keith by Wedekind (1974, also for the RSC).