David Lane is a British television and film director, best known for his association with series produced by Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson MBE is a British publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation"....

's AP Films

AP Films

AP Films or APF, later becoming Century 21 Productions, was a British independent film production company of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s...

.

Lane directed several episodes of the Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (TV series)

Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation"...

television series, including "Attack of the Alligators!", as well as the two cinema films Thunderbirds are GO

Thunderbirds Are GO

Thunderbirds Are Go is a 1966 British science-fiction film based on Thunderbirds, a 1960s television series starring marionette puppets and featuring scale model effects in a filming process dubbed "Supermarionation"...

and Thunderbird 6

Thunderbird 6

Thunderbird 6 is a 1968 British science-fiction and adventure film written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, directed by David Lane and produced by Century 21 Cinema...

. He also worked on Anderson's other series up to UFO

UFO (TV series)

UFO is a 1970-1971 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.UFO first aired in the UK and Canada...

and Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet

Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet

Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet is a United Kingdom-produced computer-generated imagery action-adventure TV series which debuted in February 2005 as part of the Ministry of Mayhem on ITV....

, and would go on to collaborate with Anderson stalwart Derek Meddings

Derek Meddings

Derek Meddings was a British television and cinema special effects expert, initially noted for his work on the "Supermarionation" television puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson, and later for the 1970s James Bond films and the Superman film series.-Early years:Both Meddings' parents had...

 on several other projects including Superman: The Movie.

In 2006, he co-founded a new production company, Pineapple Squared Entertainment, with former Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Thomas and Friends is a British children's television series, first broadcast on the ITV network in September 1984. Until 2003, it was named Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. This series was shot on 35mm film...

director David Mitton

David Mitton

David Nelson Godfrey Mitton was a British television producer and director, and an experienced model maker and author, best known for directing and producing the children's television shows TUGS and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends...

 and Michele Fabian Jones. Under this company he was working on Adventures on Orsum Island

Adventures on Orsum Island

Adventures on Orsum Island was a planned British CGI children's television series created by former Thomas and Friends and TUGS director and producer, David Mitton. This was Mitton's last work before his death in 2008. The show was being produced by Pineapple Squared Entertainment, which was...

, a CGI adventure series. However, since Mitton's death during production in 2008, it seems as though the series has been dismounted.

Lane has been a director at Lane Fabian Jones

Lane Fabian Jones (production company)

Lane Fabian Jones is a multiplatform content company with offices in the UK and USA. The company was founded by David Lane and Michele Fabian Jones and is based in London, UK.-History:...

for twenty years, a company he founded with long-term business partner Michele Fabian Jones.

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