Nick Park Filmography

Born:
December 6, 1958
Occupation:
Animator, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:
A man whose creative brilliance is superceded only by the eccentricities on display in his work, writer/director/producer/animator Nick Park has been revolutionizing the art of claymation since 1989, when he made the Oscar-winning short Creature Comforts. Working in concert with Aardman...Read More
  • Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Their new bakery booming, Wallace and Gromit struggle to keep the business afloat as world-class cheese enthusiast Wallace gets dough-eyed for former Bake-O-Lite bread girl Piella Bakewell, and his furry partner Gromit attempts to discover why more than a dozen local bakers have gone missing in Read More

    2009
  • Trouble at Mill

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Peter Sallis

    Synopsis: Trouble At Mil is the first thirty-minute short featuring the beloved characters Wallace and Gromit since their first feature-length film. Nick Park, who has won numerous Oscar for previous Wallace and Gromit films, returns as the director once again. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

    2008
  • Creature Comforts [Animated TV Series]

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: The genesis of the clay-animation "docu-comedy" Creature Comforts was a 1989 theatrical short cocreated by Nick Park of "Wallace and Grommit" fame. This evolved into a British TV series, which first aired in 2003, which in turned spawned the American version four years later. The premise was both Read More

    2007
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Clement Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith

    Synopsis: Eccentric inventor Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and his faithful if often perplexed dog Gromit are back in their first feature-length adventure from animator Nick Park. Wallace and Gromit have launched a new business venture just in time for a major gardening competition in their neighborhood Read More

    10/7/05
  • Creature Comforts: Series 01

    Crew: Director, Show Creator

    Synopsis: The initial season of the British Claymation series Creature Comforts consists of 13 episodes, in which animated animals are interviewed on the topics that concern them most (and, as it turns out, many of the topics are of equal concern to human beings). In "The Circus," we meet an elephant Read More

    2003
  • Cracking Contraptions

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Peter Sallis

    2002
  • Chicken Run

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

    Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Ferguson, Imelda Staunton

    Synopsis: Aardman Animations, the British clay-animation studio that created a cult sensation (and won three Academy awards) with its short subjects featuring Wallace and Gromit, presents its first feature film, a mixture of comedy and adventure. Mrs. Tweedy (voice of Miranda Richardson) operates a chicken Read More

    6/21/00
  • A Close Shave

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Peter Sallis

    Synopsis: The third film to feature the claymation adventures of Wallace and Gromit, A Close Shave finds the inventor and his dog with a new business, new friends, and a new adversary. As the story begins, the team has decided to open a window-washing service, with Wallace providing clever gadgets while Read More

    1995
  • The Wrong Trousers

    Crew: Animator, Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Peter Sallis

    Synopsis: The second short film to feature the claymation antics of eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, The Wrong Trousers sees the duo become unwitting accomplices to a jewel theft. The trouble begins when, struggling to make ends meet, Wallace decides to take in a boarder - a mysterious Read More

    1993
  • A Grand Day Out

    Crew: Animator, Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: It's another bank holiday in northern England, and eccentric inventor Wallace and his faithful dog, Gromit, are sitting around the house with nothing to do. While poring over stacks of travel magazines, Wallace suggests that the pair break for a hot cup of tea and some cheese. When he discovers Read More

    1992
  • War Story

    Crew: Animator

    1989
  • Creature Comforts

    Crew: Animator, Director

    Synopsis: Creature Comforts is an Oscar-winning animated short from Aardman Animations and director Nick Park, the creator of the Wallace & Gromit series. As in his other works, Park mingles claymation and multidimensional characterizations with a dry, distinctly British sense of humor; this time around Read More

    1989
  • The Amazing Adventures of Morph

    Crew: Screenwriter

    1980

Movie data provided by AMG

Nick Park  not available

© 2007 Getty Images

Add this Person to Favorites