QuoteAn Oscar winner and four-time nominee, he also worked on 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'Aliens.'
Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-lamont-legendary-production-designer-on-bond-films-and-titanic-dies-at-91A few years ago I attended a film festival where Peter Lamont was giving a talk as promotion for his new book. Unfortunately, though the festival had managed to secure some big names (Lamont, director John Glenn, Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant) it wasn't very well advertised and only a few people turned up. Ever the professional he still gave his talk to a room of no more than 10 people, talking us through a rich history of movie work from Bond through to Titanic (for which he won an oscar). At the end of it all my Popcorn Digest cohost and I approached him for a chat. He ended up talking to us over lunch for about an hour, with a lot of focus on Aliens and his efforts to keep within a strict and limiting budget.
However, towards the end of our conversation he did mention that he felt he was forced out of the industry one movie too soon (due to health concerns). Though his career was one littered with amazing accomplishments he never got to leave the business on his own terms. Shortly thereafter his son Neil (who was working on The Force Awakens at the time) came to collect him and off he went. After the embarrassment the festival had left him with he could have been very bitter and rightfully upset about the whole thing. Instead he was a true professional, making the most out of what little he had. But I guess after his work on Aliens, that was something he was used to.
