David Lane

Directing

February 4, 1940

Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK

4 movies

Biography

David Lane is a British television and film director, best known for his association with series produced by Gerry Anderson's AP Films. Lane directed several episodes of Thunderbirds, including "Attack of the Alligators!", as well as the two films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6.

🎬 David Lane's Filmography

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Featuring new interviews with key cast and crew, and drawing on a wealth of unseen archive materials, this comprehensive retrospective explores the genesis, production and legacy of the series like never before.

Spectrum is 20: The Death and Life of New Captain Scarlet

2026

Mined from the archives of Century 21 Films, this bumper collection of extended interviews and documentary shorts provides further insight into the worlds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the secrets of their classic productions revealed.

Century 21 Revisited

2025

7.3

The definitive documentary about the iconic television series developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their production companies (AP Films and Century 21 Pictures). Supermarionation was a revolutionary technique used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and, most famously, Thunderbirds.

Filmed in Supermarionation

2014

On the eve of the demolition of the site of Gerry Anderson's AP Films and Century 21 studios in Slough, original crew wander around and reminisce their time there. Includes archive footage and new sequences made with the original Thunderbirds puppets.

Century 21 Slough

2018