Peter Lamont

Peter Lamont

Birth : 1929-11-12, London, England

Death : 2020-12-18

History

Oscar winning production designer better known for his work on the James Bond films.

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Peter Lamont

Movies

Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style
Self
A look at a museum exhibition that celebrates the Bond franchise from a design perspective: costumes, sets, concept art, props, etc. We get a multi-sensory experience, immersing audiences in the creation and development of Bond style over its auspicious 50 year history.
Ian Fleming: The Secret Road to Paradise
A documentary about Ian Fleming.
James Bond in the Bahamas
A documentary about James Bond in the Bahamas.
Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo
Short behind the scenes making-of documentary about the filming of the sinking house palazzo and the Venetian piazza chase from the James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006).
Casino Royale
Production Design
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Location Scouting with Peter Lamont
Scouting locations with Peter Lamont.
Location Scouting with Peter Lamont
Narrator
Location Scouting with Peter Lamont during Octopussy.
Building a Better Bond
Teaser promotional documentary made for theaters and exhibitors, shot in 1994 during pre-production to promote the then upcoming James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
Location Scouting with Peter Lamont
Location scouting with Peter Lamont on License to Kill.
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
Self
This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film. Every possible element towards what went into making the movie is included here and gives fans an overload of information to fill their brains with.
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Self
A documentary about Die Another Day.
Die Another Day
Production Design
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
Self
A documentary about Die Another Day.
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film 'Licence to Kill'.
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"
Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only"
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"
Inside 'Octopussy'
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.
Inside 'A View to a Kill'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "A View to a Kill"
Designing Bond: Peter Lamont
A documentary about the work of Peter Lamont.
Ken Adam: Designing Bond
A look at the Oscar-winning production designer.
Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
The World Is Not Enough
Production Design
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
Wing Commander
Production Design
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
Inside 'Live and Let Die'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"
Titanic
Production Design
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Made for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
GoldenEye
Production Design
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon
The World of James Bond
Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
True Lies
Production Design
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
Eve of Destruction
Production Design
Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When she is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot becomes an unstoppable killing machine. Colonel Jim McQuade is assigned to stop the robot and with the help from Dr. Simmons they have to predict where she will go next.
Licence to Kill
Production Design
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
The Living Daylights
Production Design
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
Aliens
Production Design
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.
A View to a Kill
Production Design
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
Octopussy
Production Design
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
For Your Eyes Only
Production Design
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
Sphinx
Supervising Art Director
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
The Boys from Brazil
Art Direction
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Art Direction
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Art Direction
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
The Man with the Golden Gun
Art Direction
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
The Dove
Art Direction
The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey he meets and falls in love with a young woman (Patti Ratteree, played by Deborah Raffin) who is also traveling around the world. The story follows Robin around the world to many beautiful locals, as he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.
Live and Let Die
Art Direction
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Sleuth
Art Direction
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.
Diamonds Are Forever
Set Decoration
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Fiddler on the Roof
Set Decoration
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Set Decoration
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Assistant Art Director
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Draughtsman
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.