Derek Reginald Lamb (20 June 1936 – 5 November 2005) was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the
National Film Board of Canada
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's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner ''
Special Delivery'', directed by
John Weldon and
Eunice Macaulay
Eunice Macaulay (''nee'' Eunice Bagley) (July 5, 1923 – July 8, 2013) was a British-born Academy Award–winning animator whose credits range from animation to writing, directing, and producing.
Biography
Eunice Bagley was born in St Helens in ...
, and produced and scripted
Eugene Fedorenko
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's ''
Every Child''. He also created numerous animated sketches for ''
Sesame Street
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'', sometimes in collaboration with
John Canemaker
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.
In 1983, he and a former wife, animator
Janet Perlman
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, formed an independent production company. Among their productions was the ''
Sports Cartoons'' series, which aired on
Nickelodeon
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in the United States. Lamb and Fedorenko collaborated on the first animation sequences for an IMAX film, ''Skyward'', first presented at
Expo '85 in
Tsukuba, Ibaraki
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, Japan.
With Fedorenko and Perlman, Lamb created the animated
title sequence
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of the
PBS
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series ''
Mystery!
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'' based on the art of
Edward Gorey
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, and a series of network ID's for
YTV in 1991.
Lamb was also a musician. In 1962, he released an album of songs on
Folkways Records
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History
The Folkways Records & Servic ...
titled ''She Was Poor But She Was Honest'' after its
title track
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, which included songs drawn from London music halls and pubs.
Two years before his death, Lamb appeared, as himself, in the 2004 Oscar-winning animated documentary short film ''
Ryan'', directed by Canadian-based animation filmmaker
Chris Landreth
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.
From his first marriage, he had two sons: Richard Steven Lamb (born in London on 27 September 1963) and Thomas Derek Lamb (born in Cambridge on 3 March 1966). He died at the age of 69 from cancer, at a friend's home in
Poulsbo, Washington
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The area was historically ...
on 5 November 2005.
References
External links
*
Canadian Film Encyclopedia nline publication, The Film Reference Library of the Toronto International Film Festival Group
1936 births
2005 deaths
British film producers
British animated film directors
British animated film producers
Artists from London
British animators
Harvard University faculty
Deaths from cancer in Washington (state)
National Film Board of Canada people
Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award
20th-century British businesspeople
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