Peter Murton

Peter Murton (September 24, 1924 &mdash; December 15, 2009) was a cinema production designer and art director. He worked as art director (along with Frank Bollinger, and Mark Zuelzke for Yuma) in the 1994 feature film.

Career
Murton worked as an art director for production designer on the  film Dr. Strangelove. Murton then did art direction on the next two films - Goldfinger and Thunderball - which Adam also did the production design. Murton was promoted to production designer on the 1974 Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. The production team chose Thailand as a primary location, following Murton's suggestion, after he saw pictures of the Phuket bay in a magazine. Bond film historian Steven Jay Rubin faults The Man with the Golden Gun for not making good use of Murton's sets, especially the solar energy room. "Murton's interiors were well up to the standards expected on a Bond film." Rubin believes that the responsibility for the film's artistic failure "lay elsewhere." Murton wrote an article discussing Bond film gimmicks.

Murton worked with producer on six films: three Bond films, the first two  films, and Saltzman's unmade pet project The Micronauts.

On King Kong Lives Murton had to create forty miniature sets, which proved a challenge. Never in his career had he to create so many miniatures at once. Further, few of the art department crew had any experience making models.

Involvement in the Stargate universe

 * Art director

Filmography
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