Peter Lamont

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Peter Lamont (born November 12, 1929 in London ) is a British film architect .

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Lamont, of Scottish descent, came to film in 1946. There he got to know the industry from the bottom up and initially took on various assistant jobs. Later he worked as a decorative painter and draftsman (among others for Ist ja crazy - our torpedo is coming back "," Hypno "," O Darling, what a traffic ", Alluring Laurel ) until he worked as a draftsman for the first time with the James Bond - production her Majesty's secret . then came in contact designed Lamont decorations to 1971 as art director , from 1972 as a set designer recently, he was on. James Bond 007: Casino Royale involved (2006), after which he ended his career.

Until 1979 Lamont remained assigned to the 'Bond' chief designer Ken Adam , after his departure to Hollywood in 1980 Lamont moved up to the chief architect of the 007 films. Lamont, on the other hand, delivered one of his most important works beyond the agent film series, when he created an unreal and at the same time terrifying, artificial light-flooded world of grottos and shafts in the second part of the alien series, Aliens - The Return . Another Hollywood large-scale production, no less heavy on special effects, followed at the end of 1993, when Lamont was hired for the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film True Lies . In 1996, with meticulous attention to detail, he designed the structures for the most expensive film of all time, the quarter-billion-dollar film Titanic . Peter Lamont received an Oscar for this achievement .

His son Neil Lamont also works as a film architect.

Awards (selection)

Oscars

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • 1998 - Received the LAFCA Award for Titanic

Satellite Awards

  • 1998 - Award for Titanic

Filmography (selection)

As a production designer

As an art director

As a set decorator

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 552.

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personal data
SURNAME Lamont, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art director, production designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH London