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.

Filmography

• 2026Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom — Executive Producer
• 2024Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — Executive Producer
• 2023Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Executive Producer
• 2021Robin Robin — Executive Producer
• 2020Timmy's Cinema Adventure — Executive Producer
• 2019A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon — Executive Producer
• 2018Early Man — Producer
• 2015Shaun the Sheep Movie — Executive Producer
• 2015Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas — Executive Producer
• 2015Special Delivery — Writer
• 2014Ray's Big Idea — Executive Producer
• 2013The Croods — Thanks
• 2012Shaun the Sheep: Shear Madness — Executive Producer
• 2012So You Want To Be A Pirate! — Director, Executive Producer
• 2012The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! — Additional Voices (voice), Director, Producer
• 2011Arthur Christmas — Producer
• 2010Shaun the Sheep: One Giant Leap for Lambkind — Executive Producer
• 2010Shaun the Sheep: Party Animals — Executive Producer
• Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention — Executive Producer
• 2008A Matter of Loaf and Death — Executive Producer
• Chop Socky Chooks — Executive Producer
• Creature Comforts — Executive Producer
• 2007Pib and Pog: X Factor — Executive Producer
• 2007Show and Tell with Pib and Pog: Peter's Room — Executive Producer
• 2006Flushed Away — Producer, Story
• 2006Off Beat — Executive Producer
• 2006Pib and Pog: Dentist — Executive Producer
• 2006Safety in the Home with Pib and Pog: The Kitchen — Executive Producer
• 2006Show and Tell with Pib and Pog: Daddy's Study — Executive Producer
• 2005Ramble On — Executive Producer
• 2005Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Producer
• Creature Comforts — Creator
• 2002Vacation — Executive Producer
• 2002Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions — Producer
• Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions — Producer, Story Developer, Executive Producer
• Angry Kid — Executive Producer
• 2000Chicken Run — Producer, Director, Story
• 2000Chickens Go in, Pies Come Out
• 2000Fowl Play - The Making of Chicken Run
• 1999Humdrum — Executive Producer
• 1999Les chefs-d’œuvre du Studio Aardman — Director
• 1997Owzat — Executive Producer
• 1997Stage Fright — Executive Producer
• 1996A Close Shave — Executive Producer
• 1996Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation — Director
• 1996Wat's Pig — Director, Animation
• 1995Pib and Pog — Executive Producer
• The Morph Files — Director, Creator
• 1993Not Without My Handbag — Producer
• 1993Re-Cycle — Director
• 1993The Wrong Trousers — Executive Producer
• 1992Adam — Animation, Executive Producer, Director, Writer
• 1992Douglas: Story of a Superstar
• 1992Never Say Pink Furry Die — Executive Producer
• 1991Rex the Runt: Dreams — Executive Producer
• 1991Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct — Executive Producer
• 1990A Grand Day Out — Thanks
• 1990Going Equipped — Director
• 1989War Story — Director, Animation
• 1986Babylon — Director
• 1983Early Bird — Director
• 1983Late Edition — Director
• 1983On Probation — Producer, Director
• 1983Palmy Days — Director
• 1983Sales Pitch — Director
• The Amazing Adventures of Morph — Director
• 1979Down and Out — Director
• 1978Confessions of a Foyer Girl — Director
• 1975Gleebees — Director
• 1972Aardman — Director
• Omnibus

Appearances as themselves (18)

• 2026Sledgehammer Revealed — Self
• 2026Walking with Animators — Self
• 2023The Making of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Self
• 2022Claydream — Self
• 2022Kids' TV: The Surprising Story — Self
• 2021Cartoon Carnival — Self
• 2020The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor — Self
• 2019Animation Outlaws — Self
• 2018Secrets of British Animation — Self
• 2015A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman — Self - Aardman Co-Founder
• 2012Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So — Self
• 2011Adventures in Plymptoons! — Self
• Great British Menu — Self - Guest Judge
• 2006How Wallace & Gromit Went to Hollywood — Self
• 2005Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection — Self
• 2003Chaplin Today: City Lights — Self
• Classic Albums — Self
• The South Bank Show — Self