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Peter Lord, CBE (born 4 November 1953) is an English animator, film producer, director and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit. He also directed The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
Lord is the executive producer of every Aardman work, including Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.
Life and career[]
Lord was born in Bristol, England. In co-operation with David Sproxton, a friend of his youth, he realised his dream of "making and taking an animated movie". He graduated in English from the University of York in 1976.[1] He and Sproxton founded Aardman as a low-budget backyard studio, producing shorts and trailers for publicity. Their work was first shown as part of the BBC TV series Vision On. In 1977 they created Morph, a stop-motion animated character made of Plasticine, who was usually a comic foil to the TV presenter Tony Hart. With his amoral friend Chas, he appeared in a series of children's art programmes including Take Hart, Hartbeat and Smart. From 1980-1981, Morph appeared in his own TV series The Amazing Adventures of Morph.
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 clay animation characters from stop motion techniques (though directed by Stephen Johnson their claymation is shown in the music video "Sledgehammer" (1986) by Peter Gabriel). In 1991 Lord animated Adam, a 6-minute clay animation that was nominated for an Academy Award. Park created the "odd-couple" Wallace and Gromit-shorts in co-operation with Lord and Sproxton. All three together worked as producers, editors and directors. Other awarded productions by Peter Lord are Chicken Run (2000), the first feature film from Aardman and the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
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 Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, where he met Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki has long been a fan of the Aardman Animation works.[2][3] In 2013 Lord was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards for Pirates! Band of Misfits.
Lord was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006.
On 9 July 2015, Lord received a Gold Blue Peter badge.[4]
In August 2016, Lord was appointed a visiting professorship at Volda University College.[5]
Filmography[]
Feature films[]
| Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Story | ||||
| Chicken | Story | |||||
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | |||||
| 2006 | Monsters Very Furry | Story | ||||
| Flushed Away | Story | |||||
| 2008 | A Matter of Loaf and Death | Executive producer | ||||
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | |||||
| 2012 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Actor: "Additional voices" | ||||
| 2013 | The Croods | Special thanks | ||||
| 2015 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Executive producer | ||||
| 2018 | Early Man |
TV series[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Take Hart | Animator |
| 1977-1978 | Animated Conversations | Director; 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 | 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 | Executive producer; script writer |
Shorts[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 & Brian Sibley: Cracking Animation (1998) Thames & Hudson; Template:ISBN
References[]
- ↑ University of York press release. york.ac.uk. Retrieved on February 18, 2010.
- ↑ INTERVIEW – In Conversation With Merlin Crossingham, Lead Animator At Aardman Animation. Alternative Magazine. Retrieved on December 29, 2015.
- ↑ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aardman exhibits, new Miyazaki anime on view". Japan Times. 24 November 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/peter-lord-earns-blue-peter-badge/
- ↑ Brandal, Per Arne. – Mr. Aardman, Peter Lord, appointed professor in Volda (nn). Archived from the original on March 17, 2017.
External links[]
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| Short films | Animated Conversations: Down and Out (1977) • Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl (1978) • Conversation Pieces: On Probation (1983) • Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch (1983) • Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days (1983) • Conversation Pieces: Early Bird (1983) • Conversation Pieces: Late Edition (1983) • Sweet Disaster: Babylon (1986) • Sledgehammer (1986) • My Baby Just Cares for Me (1987) • Barefootin' (1987) • Lip Synch: Going Equipped (1987) • Lip Synch: Creature Comforts (1989) • Lip Synch: War Story (1989) • Lip Synch: Ident (1989) • Lip Synch: Next (1989) • Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989) • Adam (1991) • Loves Me, Loves Me Not (1993) • Not Without My Handbag (1993) • Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993) • Pib and Pog (1993) • Pop (1993) • Wat's Pig (1993) • The Morph Files (1995) • Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995) • Owzat (1997) • Stage Fright (1997) • Humdrum (1998) • Al Dente (1998) • Viva Forever (1998) • Minotaur and Little Nerkin (1999) • Angry Kid (1999) • The Non-Voters - BBC Election Coverage (2004) • The Pearce Sisters (2007) • Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) • Dot (2010) • Gulp (2011) • The Itch of The Golden Nit (2011) • Under the Oak Tree (2011) • Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012) • A Pig's Tail (2012) • The Pirates!: So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012) • Darkside trailer (2013) • Sphere (2013) • Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015) • Robin Robin (2021) • Star Wars: Visions - I Am Your Mother (short film) (2023) • JH Movie Collection: League of Visions - Good to Be Alive (short film) (2023) |
| Television series / series of shorts | Animated Conversations (1977–78) • The Amazing Adventures of Morph (1980–81) • Conversation Pieces (1983–84) • Lip Synch (1989) • The Artbox Bunch (1995–96) • Rex the Runt (1998–01) • Angry Kid (1999–present) • Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002–03) • Creature Comforts (2003–07) (episodes) • The Presentators (2003–04) • Planet Sketch (2005-08) • Purple and Brown (2005–08) • Pib and Pog (2006) • Shaun the Sheep (2007–present) (episodes) • Chop Socky Chooks (2008) • Timmy Time (2009–12) (episodes) • Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention (2010) • DC Nation Shorts: DC's World's Funnest (2012–14) • Counterfeit Cat (2016–17) |
| Feature films | Chicken Run (2000) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) • Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) (accolades) • Early Man (2018) • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) • Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) |
| Computer-animated films | Flushed Away (2006) • Arthur Christmas (2011) • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018) • The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) • The JH Movie Collection Movie: The Fate of the Tour (2020) |
| Franchises | Morph (1977–present) • Creature Comforts (1989–2011) • Wallace and Gromit (1989–present) • Angry Kid (1998–2019) • Chicken Run (2000-present) • Shaun the Sheep (2007–present) • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018–2021) |
| People | Peter Lord • Nick Park • Barry Purves • David Sproxton |
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