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Lighting designer who worked with Laurence Olivier on the construction and design of the National Theatre in London

Richard Pilbrow, who has died aged 90, was the doyen of British theatrical lighting designers, and one of the last survivors of the team assembled by Sir Laurence Olivier in the 1960s to design the new National Theatre on the South Bank. He was also the author of the lighting designer’s bible, Stage Lighting (1970), nicknamed “the Old Testament”, and its revised 1997 edition, “the New Testament”.