Career
Oxley began working in set design in 1948, as an art decorator in the movie London Belongs to Maine. He would also oversee the art decoration of the 1949 movie, Passport to Pimlico. Oxley had been working for some years as set decorator for British Broadcasting Corporation when he was chosen, as an in-house joke, to model for the character of "Big Brother" in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
"Big Brother" was not actually a participating character in the program
His face was only shown on various posters and billboards seen during the adaptation. Oxley worked at several other productions as a production designer with the British Broadcasting Corporation, ending with 1969"s Paul Temple.
1969 marked the year in which Oxley retired from working on television or movie sets. His last work in that area was as a set decorator for the made-for-television movie The Naked Sun.
