Peter Murton
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| Biographical information | |
| Birth date |
September 24, 1924 London, England, UK |
| Death date |
15 December 2009 (age 85) England, UK |
| Gender | |
| Information about family | |
| Child | Simon Murton (son) |
| Stargate-related information | |
| Related series | Stargate |
| Occupation | Art director |
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Peter Murton (September 24, 1924 — December 15, 2009)[1] 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 Stargate.
Career[edit | edit source]
Murton worked as an art director for production designer Ken Adam on the Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove. Murton then did art direction on the next two James Bond 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.[2] 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.[3]
Murton worked with producer Harry Saltzman on six films: three Bond films, the first two Harry Palmer films, and Saltzman's unmade pet project The Micronauts.[4]
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[edit | edit source]
- Art director (Stargate)
Filmography[edit | edit source]
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| Year | Title | Function | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime | Production designer | Film | |
| 1994 | Stargate | Art director | Film | |
| 1992 | Gengis Khan | Production designer | Film | |
| 1992 | From Time to Time | Production designer | Short | |
| 1991 | Popcorn | Production designer | Film | |
| 1989 | Blind Fury | Production designer | Film | |
| 1988 | Just Ask for Diamond | Production designer | Film | |
| 1986 | King Kong Lives | Production designer | Film | |
| 1985 | Spies Like Us | Production designer | Film | |
| 1984 | The Chain | Production designer | Film | |
| 1984 | Sheena | Production designer | Film | |
| 1983 | Superman III | Production designer | Film | |
| 1980 | Superman II | Production designer | Film | |
| 1979 | Dracula | Production designer | Film | |
| 1979 | Ike | Art director | TV Mini-Series | |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile | Production designer | Film | |
| 1976 | The Eagle Has Landed | Production designer | Film | |
| 1975 | Man Friday | Production designer | Film | |
| 1974 | The Man with the Golden Gun | Production designer | Film | |
| 1974 | The Black Windmill | Art director | Film | |
| 1973 | Night Watch | Art director | Film | |
| 1972 | The Possession of Joel Delaney | Production designer | Film | |
| 1972 | The Ruling Class | Production designer | Film | |
| 1969 | Three Into Two Won't Go | Art director | Film | |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Art director | Film | |
| 1967 | Half a Sixpence | Art director | Film | |
| 1966 | Funeral in Berlin | Art director | Film | |
| 1965 | Thunderball | Art director | Film | |
| 1965 | The Ipcress File | Art director | Film | |
| 1965 | Tomorrow at Ten | Assistant editor | Film | |
| 1964 | Goldfinger | Art director | Film | |
| 1964 | Woman of Straw | Art director | Film | |
| 1964 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Art director | Film | |
| 1963 | In the Cool of the Day | production design associate | Film | |
| 1962 | Billy Budd | Art director | Film | |
| 1961 | Mr. Topaze | Art director | Film | |
| 1960 | Swiss Family Robinson | assistant art director | Film | |
| 1960 | Man in the Moon | set dresser | Film | |
| 1959 | Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | assistant art director | Film | |
| 1958 | Carry on Sergeant | set dresser | Film | |
| 1958 | The Wind Cannot Read | set dresser | Film | |
| 1958 | Rooney | set dresser | Film | |
| 1957 | Windom's Way | set dresser | Film | |
| 1957 | Across the Bridge | set dresser | Film | |
| 1950 | Night and the City | draughtsman - uncredited | Film | |
| 1948 | Good-Time Girl | draughtsman - uncredited | Film | |
| 1946 | Caravan | draughtsman - uncredited | Film | |
| 1945 | The Wicked Lady | draughtsman - uncredited | Film | |
| 1945 | Madonna of the Seven Moons | draughtsman - uncredited | Film | |
| 1944 | Love Story | draughtsman - uncredited | Film | |
Notes[edit | edit source]
- Peter Murton is the father of Simon Murton, conceptual designer in Stargate.
External links[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ anonymous (6 February 2010). "Peter Murton, Acclaimed Production Designer, Passes Away". Cinema Retro. http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/4267-PETER-MURTON,-ACCLAIMED-PRODUCTION-DESIGNER,-PASSES-AWAY.html.
- ↑ (NTSC, Widescreen, Closed-captioned) Inside The Man with the Golden Gun (DVD). The Man with the Golden Gun Ultimate Edition, Disc 2: MGM/UA Home Video. 2000.
- ↑ Murton, Peter (Summer 1966). "Gimmicks in Bond". in the Journal of the Society of Film and Television Arts (24 "Spies on the Screen"). http://www.bafta.org/heritage/features/peter-murton-on-bond-1966,3506,BA.html.
- ↑ Trott, Walt (8 September 1975). "Bonds, Bugs and Ballyhoo". European Stars And Stripes: p. 19.
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