Richard Bazley (born 28 November 1962 in Devon, England) is an Emmy-nominated film director and a storyboard artist. Although now a Director of Live Action and animation his background is in animation and his credits include

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'' and a lead animator and sequence director on the Warner Bros. film ''

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Work

Bazley who works on both sides of the Atlantic set up Bazley Films in the US and UK and produced the animated short The Journal of Edwin Carp narrated by

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(House). It was the first animated short created in

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to be released theatrically. Bazley also cowrote flash cartoons and games with James Robertson and Bill Turner. Bazley moved into directing on commercials and series with popular commercials for Sky and Go Compare. In 2012 he Directed two Episodes of Full English at Rough Draft Studios (USA), a TV show made for the UK's

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(2012). On this Bazley teamed up with Alex Scarfe, the son of

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with whom he had worked closely on Disney's

. Through Argosy Film Group Bazley directed the ''Lost Treasure Hunt'', an animated half-hour pilot for a proposed TV series. ''Lost Treasure Hunt'' was created by the animators behind

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, and Frozen. Bazley developed several feature films and is attached as director. In 2011 Bazley teamed up with Gary Kurtz (prod. ''

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'') and Paul Goodenough to set up the film production company, based in London and Los Angeles. GBK Hybrid's first short Centurion Resurrection filmed in Bath has played at numerous film festivals and won numerous awards. The Chimeran, a live action/animation hybrid is the first film in development. Described as somewhere between Planet of the Apes and District 9 this is clearly not just another creature movie. With Gary Kurtz's involvement it ensures that the film has depth and character with many sociological issues that take it out of the realms of regular science fiction. In 2022 Bazley directed the multi-award-winning film ''Censure'' featuring

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. To date the film has won over 40 awards. Richard's grandfather, George Bazley, was a famous Cornish wrestler in the 1920s."Wrestling: Effect of feats by Cornishmen", Western Morning News, 23 December 1926, p. 10.Western Morning News, 29 November 1927.Cornubian and Redruth Times, 19 July 1923.

Filmography

TV commercials

TV shows

Short films

Bibliography

References

External links

Interview published by The Film Maker's Workshop on 24 December 2014 on YouTube in which Richard Bazley talks about transitioning from animation to live action
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