query: occupation derek meddings
supports: AP Films or APF, later becoming Century 21 Productions, was a British independent film production company of the 1950s until the early 1970s. The company became world famous with its imaginative children's action-adventure marionette television series  most notably "Thunderbirds"  produced for British independent broadcasting companies Associated-Rediffusion, Granada, ABC Weekend Television and Associated Television. At its height, the company employed more than 200 staff. A portmanteau (; plural "portmanteaus" or "portmanteaux" ) or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word. 
  as in "smog", coined by blending "smoke" and "fog", or "popportunity", from "popping" and "opportunity", or "motel", from "motor" and "hotel". In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes. Sylvia Beatrice Anderson (née Thomas; 27 March 1927  15 March 2016) was an English television and film producer, writer, voice actress and costume designer, best known for her collaborations with Gerry Anderson, her husband between 1960 and 1981. A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and on television. The attachment of the strings varies according to its character or purpose. Gerry Anderson, MBE (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929  26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He was known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Supermarionation (a portmanteau of "super", "marionette" and "animation") is a puppetry technique devised in the 1960s by British production company AP Films. It was used extensively in the company's numerous Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-produced action-adventure series, the most famous of which was "Thunderbirds". The term was coined by Gerry Anderson. Derek Meddings ( 15 January 1931 -- 10 September 1995 ) was a British film and television special effects designer , initially noted for his work on the `` Supermarionation '' TV puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson , and later for the 1970s and 1980s James Bond and Superman film series .
candidates: artist costume designer designer director entertainment film producer hotel puppeteer puppetry television writer
answer: artist