Stuart Craig, an Oscar-winning manufacturing designer greatest recognized for his work on Harry Potter and Incredible Beasts movies, died on Sunday seventh September aged 83.

Fellow manufacturing designer and artwork director Neil Lamont shared he died after an extended battle with Parkinson’s illness, as he penned a tribute on the British Movie Designers Guild’s Fb web page.

He wrote: “It’s with nice unhappiness, that I report that my buddy and mentor, Manufacturing Designer Stuart Craig handed away final evening, seventh September 2025, aged 83, following an extended battle with Parkinson’s illness.”

He revealed he and Craig first labored collectively on The English Affected person, including: “The experiences I had on this movie, not solely allowed me to see Stuart’s expertise, his stunning sketches, pencil drawings and imaginative and prescient, but in addition the best way which he carried out himself in all walks of life, within the Studio, the automobile, eating places. A real gentleman, with grace, kindness and humility.

“Stuart was very beneficiant together with his time and recommendation, at all times taking the time to share his information and assist these round him. … I guess that anybody you ask, ‘which designer would you wish to work with probably the most’ the reply 100 [percent] could be Stuart Craig, and anybody who met him will bear in mind their encounter eternally. I replay all mine, on a regular basis, he won’t ever be forgotten.”

Craig was additionally recognized for his work on Harmful Liaisons, Notting Hill, and 1982 movie Gandhi, for which he gained his first Academy Award for his set design work. He was additionally nominated for hit Nineteen Eighties movie The Elephant Man.

Throughout his profession, Craig labored because the manufacturing designer on He labored on 2001’s Sorcerer’s Stone, 2002’s Chamber of Secrets and techniques, 2004’s Prisoner of Azkaban, 2005’s Goblet of Hearth, 2007’s Order of the Phoenix, 2009’s Half-Blood Prince, 2010’s Deathly Hallows: Half 1 and 2011’s Deathly Hallows: Half 2.

He additionally labored on the Potter spin-off Incredible Beasts, together with 2016’s Incredible Beasts and The place to Discover Them, 2018’s The Crimes of Grindelwald and 2022’s The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore.

Different hit movies he labored on embrace The Elephant Man, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Cry Freedom, Chaplin and The Secret Backyard.

Craig is remembered by his spouse, Patricia Stangroom, and their two youngsters.