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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.
Peter Lord is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Aardman. He co-founded the studio with his long-time collaborator, David Sproxton, in 1972. As a director, Lord has been honoured with two Academy Award ® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam, and for Wat’s Pig in 1996, and Best Animated Feature for Pirates!
Aardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On.
Peter Lord was born on 4 November 1953 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for The Amazing Adventures of Morph (1980), Chicken Run (2000) and Flushed Away (2006).
Co-Founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton first moved to Bristol in 1976 to produce their first professional production and never left. Aardman is now so deeply rooted in the city that it has become part of the studio’s DNA.
Peter Lord shares his insight and stories of UK-based Aardman Animations, in this Domestika Maestros. In the sixties, two British school friends turned university students decided to try their hand at animation.
Peter Lord is an animation legend. He co-founded Aardman at only 17 years old, co-directed Chicken Run, was animator of Morph, produced Shaun the Sheep and n...
