Peter Lord
Birthday: 1953-11-04
Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
Biography: Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE (born 4 November 1953) is an English animator, director, producer 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 Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! Band of Misfits from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards. Lord is the producer/executive producer of every Aardman work, including Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.
Movies
Cartoon Carnival
Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicle...
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Secrets of British Animation
BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examin...
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Chaplin Today: City Lights
In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...
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Fowl Play - The Making of Chicken Run
A documentary covering the making of Chicken Run....
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The Making of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Lights, camera... chickens! Go behind the scenes with the Aardman team and director Sam Fell during ...
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that inclu...
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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips...
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Douglas: Story of a Superstar
Documentary behind the creation of Aardman's mascot for Lurpak....
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and h...
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How Wallace & Gromit Went to Hollywood
This featurette from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) details the history of Wallace and Gromit, ...
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Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So
This addition to the acclaimed & award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the maki...
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Animation Outlaws
Walt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing ...
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The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor
The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a wor...
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. Th...
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Claydream
A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential. Known a...
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Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
For over a half century, Ray Harryhausen has amazed and inspired countless filmmakers and fans aroun...
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