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- Derek Reginald Lamb was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner Special Delivery, directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted Eugene Fedorenko's Every Child.
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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 's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner Special Delivery, directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted ...
Apr 7, 2012 · Derek Lamb, animator, producer, teacher, administrator (born at County Kent, UK 20 June 1936; died at Poullsbo, Wa 5 Nov 2005). Derek Lamb was inspired by the films of Norman MCLAREN, and came to Canada to join the NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA (NFB) in 1959.
- Karl Cohen
- Animator/Animation Historian
- Oscar-Nominated Director
- John Weldon
- Animator
- Co-Creator of Bob & Margaret
- Animation Producer
- UC Berkeley and Author of Walt in Wonderland
- Writer
- Visual Effects Artist
ASIFA-San Francisco Derek lost his battle with cancer, but over the years he won the admiration of millions who saw his work for the National Film Board of Canada, Sesame Streetand others producers. He was admired as an exceptional animation writer and as a director with a keen sense for timing comedy. He was an excellent teacher at Harvard (1966-7...
I got to know Lamb when he was working in NYC. He gave me one of my first animation jobs, a 1975 Sesame Streetspot (The Angry Goat) that suggested to children that it is sometimes okay to express anger. He designed and directed it. I animated it and learned a hell of a lot working with him, especially his professional and meticulous approach to the...
I was a former student of his from Harvard. Derek was my animation teacher at Harvard long ago, and later one of my producers at the Film Board in Montreal. What was significant about Dereks teaching was his energy and enthusiasm, which made things happen. He wasnt a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word, imparting information or know how or be...
Oscar-winning animation director Derek was my boss for almost five years, in the seventies. He ran the NFB animation studio in Montreal during a period of huge productivity and artistic heights. He was a strange sort of boss; he had too much fun, and, as a consequence, so did the rest of us. He loved anecdotes, jokes and outright pranks. On one occ...
Derek was a master storyteller. He was a writer who thought visually he could draw as well as write, and so his talents were ideal for animation. He knew instinctively how to tell a story and play out the humor to best effect. He also had a keen eye for talent, and gathered the best people around him, getting them to produce their best work. And so...
When I was just 17, Derek invited me to work at the NFB in Montreal where I met so many fantastic artists who shaped and influenced my career forever. For me, Dereks stewardship of the NFBs illustrious animation department was the most fertile and most exciting in its history. He was a true creative producer in the best sense. A real inspiring pers...
Derek was the guiding spirit behind so many of the greatest works produced at the NFB, he pioneered the animation program at Harvard which brought forth Caroline Leaf and Eli Noyes, and he continued to work, himself, on the kinds of films that opened the developing world to animation. Even with all this behind him, I found him always modest and gra...
I was very saddened to hear the news about Derek. I met him when he came to Harvard to teach in the late 1960s. I never knew him well, but even from afar, he was an unforgettable fellow. He was the first professional animator I ever met, and he set the standard for patience, kindness, and sheer creative intelligence.
I knew him as a colleague of my parents and from a few meetings in Paris where I lived for most of my adult life. He was someone that I felt a real connection with. In fact we had dinner together the night my daughter was born and he was one of the first people to visit me in hospital. The reason he was in Paris was because he was writing a treatme...
My Dad was a huge inspiration to my career as an artist. He was constantly working on new ideas and enjoyed telling stories. He would always tell a funny story to friends and it was fun to hear them over and over, they never got tiring. He never compromised when it came to creating art. Sometimes we would go to a copy place on St. Catherine Street ...
Nov 22, 2005 · For many years associated with the National Film Board of Canada, Mr. Lamb earned an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for "Every Child" (1979). The six-minute film was directed by Eugene...
Nov 16, 2005 · Derek Lamb, an Academy Award-winning producer of animated short films and the influential former executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio,...
Nov 17, 2005 · Born in Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom, Lamb began working as an animator with the National Film Board of Canada, producing animated films for the BBC. Working as a writer, director, and producer, he created both experimental and commercial films in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Films directed by Derek Lamb Available for online viewing on NFB.ca.
