Peter Lord

Peter Lord earns my deep respect as a co-founder of Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit. In an industry that rushed toward computer-generated imagery, he championed painstaking stop-motion clay animation, fingerprints and all. That stubborn devotion to handmade warmth is exactly why those films feel so human and endure across generations. His Commander of the Order of the British Empire is well deserved. To me, Lord represents a vanishing faith in craft over convenience, and the slightly imperfect charm of his work is precisely what makes it irreplaceable.

Name (English)

Peter Lord

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・ロード

Reading

ぴーたー・ろーど

Born

April 11, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Origin

Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Occupation

film director / film producer / screenwriter / animator / filmmaker

University

University of York

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lord
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1975096

Tags

• Avon
• film director
• film producer
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.