Peter Lord
Peter Lord Morph in 2014 | |
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Born | Peter Duncan Fraser Lord 4 November 1953 Bristol, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Animator, director, film producer |
Notable work | Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! |
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Peter Duncan Fraser Lord
Lord is the producer/executive producer of every Aardman work, including Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.
Life and career
Lord was born in
Experiments with animated clay characters synchronised with 'live' recorded soundtracks led to a series of films in the style of animated documentary. The first two were part of the BBC TV series Animated Conversations and were called "Down and Out" (1977) and "Confessions of a Foyer Girl" (1978) . These were followed in 1983 by Conversation Pieces, a series of five-minute long films produced for Channel 4. They were called "On Probation", Sales Pitch, "Palmy Days", "Late Edition" and "Early Bird".
In 1985 Nick Park joined the group.
Lord, Park and Sproxton developed and finalised their style of detailed and lovingly designed
In 2006, Lord, Sproxton and Park were all given "the Freedom of the City of Bristol". In that same year, Lord (along with Sproxton) visited the "Aardman Exhibit" at the
Lord was made a
On 9 July 2015, Lord received a Gold Blue Peter badge.[6]
In August 2016, Lord was appointed a visiting professorship at Volda University College.[7]
Three of Lord's films–War Story, Adam, and Wat's Pig–have been preserved by the Academy Film Archive.[8]
In 2021, he was featured in the film Cartoon Carnival, a documentary about the origins of animation.[9]
Filmography
Feature films
Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Other | Notes |
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2000 | Chicken Run | Story | ||||
2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | |||||
2006 | Flushed Away | Story | ||||
2011 | Arthur Christmas | |||||
2012 | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Actor: "Additional voices" | ||||
2013 | The Croods | Special thanks | ||||
2015 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Executive producer | ||||
2018 | Early Man | |||||
2019 | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Executive producer | ||||
2023 | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Executive producer |
TV series
Year | Title | Notes |
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1977-1983 | Take Hart | Animator |
1977-1978 | Animated Conversations | Director; animator |
1980-1981 | The Amazing Adventures of Morph | Animator |
1986 | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Animation director |
1986 | No. 73 | Himself |
1995 | The Morph Files | Director; executive producer |
1998 | Rex the Runt | Executive producer |
2000 | Omnibus
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Himself |
2000 | The Panel | Himself |
2002 | Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | Executive producer |
2003-2006 | Creature Comforts | Executive producer |
2006 | Planet Earth | Thanks |
2006 | Purple and Brown | Executive producer |
2007 | The Peculiar Adventures of Hector | Executive producer |
2007–present | Shaun the Sheep | Executive producer |
2008 | Chop Socky Chooks | Executive producer |
2009-2012 | Timmy Time | Executive producer |
2010 | Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention | Executive producer |
2014–present | Morph
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Executive producer; script writer |
Shorts
Year | Title | Notes |
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1983 | Sales Pitch | Director; animator |
1983 | On Probation | Director; producer; animator |
1983 | Palmy Days | Director; animator |
1983 | Late Edition | Director; animator |
1983 | Early Bird | Director; animator |
1986 | Sledgehammer | Animator |
1986 | Babylon | Director; animator |
1987 | My Baby Just Cares for Me | Director |
1989 | War Story | Director; animator |
1989 | A Grand Day Out | Special thanks |
1990 | Going Equipped | Director; animator |
1992 | Adam | Director; writer; executive producer; art director; animator; model maker |
1992 | Never Say Pink Furry Die | Executive producer |
1993 | Loves Me, Loves Me Not | Executive producer |
1993 | The Wrong Trousers | Executive producer; additional animator |
1993 | Not Without My Handbag | Executive producer |
1995 | Pib and Pog | Executive producer |
1995 | A Close Shave | Executive producer |
1996 | Wat's Pig | Director; writer; executive producer; animator |
1997 | Stage Fright | Executive producer |
1997 | Owzat | Executive producer |
1999 | Humdrum | Executive producer |
1999 | Minotaur and Little Nerkin | Thanks |
2001 | Chunga Chui Leopard Beware | Executive producer |
2001 | Ernest | Executive producer |
2005 | Tales for the Rest of Us | Executive producer |
2005 | Ramble On | Executive producer |
2006 | Off Beat | Executive producer |
2007 | The Pearce Sisters | Executive producer |
2008 | A Matter of Loaf and Death | Executive producer |
2011 | The Itch of the Golden Nit | Executive producer |
2011 | Pythagasaurus | Executive producer |
2012 | So You Want to Be a Pirate! | Executive producer |
2015 | Heroes of Christmas | Inspiration |
2015 | Special Delivery | Story; creative director; voice of "Santa" |
2015 | Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas | Executive producer |
Books
- Peter Lord & ISBN 0-500-28168-8
References
- ^ "Peter Duncan Fraser Lord personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ "University of York press release". york.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 May 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ Mulrooney, Marty (27 November 2009). "INTERVIEW – In Conversation With Merlin Crossingham, Lead Animator at Aardman Animation". Alternative Magazine. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ "Aardman exhibits, new Miyazaki anime on view". The Japan Times. 24 November 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ "No. 58014". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2006. p. 8.
- ^ "Peter Lord Earns Blue Peter Badge". 10 July 2015.
- ^ Brandal, Per Arne. "– Mr. Aardman, Peter Lord, appointed professor in Volda". www.hivolda.no (in Norwegian Nynorsk). Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ “Cartoon Carnival” and Fleischer Tribute on TCM Saturday Oct. 2nd
External links
- Peter Lord at IMDb
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- Q&A With Peter Lord about The Pirates! Band of Misfits