Leonard Tucker, who has died aged 94, was one of the British theatre’s leading lighting designers and the first lighting manager at the National Theatre. He joined Laurence Olivier in that capacity at the Old Vic in 1963 and continued under Peter Hall when the NT moved on to the South Bank in 1976.
His career followed the rapid developments in technology in the 1970s, the age of computerised lighting boards and the haphazard application of video and CGI visual effects, though he was distinctly “old school” in this area.
