Peter Lord
British animator · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Born 1953 · age 73
Sir Peter Duncan Fraser Lord is a British animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine team Wallace & Gromit.
Peter Lord is read about 245 times a day, in 21 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy BottomFilm, 2026Producer2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the NuggetFilm, Producer2021
Robin RobinFilm, Producer2018
Early ManFilm, Producer2014Ray's Big IdeaFilm, Producer2012“Once you start thinking about what kids will find funny it’s very dangerous territory and you’ll end up with a film that lacks sincerity.”In their words25 April 2012Q&A with Peter Lord, director of ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’2011
Arthur ChristmasFilm, Producer2010
Wallace & Gromit's World of InventionSeries, Producer2008
Chop Socky ChooksSeries, Producer2006
Great British MenuSeries
Flushed AwayFilm, 2006Writer, Producer2003
Creature ComfortsSeries, Creator2002
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking ContraptionsSeries, Producer
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking ContraptionsFilm, 2002Producer1999
HumdrumFilm, Producer1997
Classic AlbumsSeries1996
A Close ShaveFilm, Producer1995
The Morph FilesSeries, Director, Creator1993
Not Without My HandbagFilm, Producer1990
Going EquippedFilm, Director1986
BabylonFilm, Director1980
The Amazing Adventures of MorphSeries, Director1979
Down and OutFilm, Director1978
The South Bank ShowSeries1967
OmnibusSeries1953Born11 April 1953People around Peter
Close ties
David Sproxton Also in Down and Out and Early Bird
Nick Park Also in The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave
Mark Burton Also in Chicken Run (2000)
Paula Abdul Peter produced Rush Rush (1991)
Bob Baker Also in The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave
Richard Starzak Also in Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Sam Fell Directed Flushed Away (2006)
Jeffrey Katzenberg Produced Chicken Run (2000)
Theodore Shapiro Peter produced The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
David Bowers Directed Flushed Away (2006)
Jake Eberts Produced Chicken Run (2000)
Steve Box Also in Stage Fright (1997)
Graham Fellows Peter produced Stage Fright (1997)
Karey Kirkpatrick Also in Chicken Run (2000)
Known for
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The Wrong Trousers 1993
A Close Shave 1996
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
A Matter of Loaf and Death 2008
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions 2002
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
104 credits on file
Television 12
Media & music
Photos 1
In their own words 1
, I like the process. It’s a very comfortable world to work in. I like the people as well. I’m surrounded by great artists and craftspeople who do it. Really experienced people.
Awards
About this person
He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
