Nick Park
- 66 years old
- English
- Writer, director, producer, executive, executive producer and animator
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Nick Park working on caveman football film Early Man
Nick Park and Aardman Animation, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun The Sheep, are making Early Man, a new film about the first football match.
British Comedy Guide, 6th May 2015Nick Park on Shaun the Sheep's big screen debut
Radio Times readers voted Shaun the Sheep their children's TV favourite. Eddie Mair rounds up creator Nick Park and his flock to find out how Shaun became a big-screen star...
Eddie Mair, Radio Times, 6th February 2015See Nick Park's cameo in Shaun the Sheep: The Movie
The Wallace and Gromit creator appears in animation for the first time.
Radio Times, 29th January 2015Shaun the Sheep hits the big screen with guests
Creator Nick Park and Radio Times competition winner Jennie King both make cameo appearances in the Shaun the Sheep Movie - and this week's magazine features an exclusive Blippar animation...
Radio Times, 26th January 2015Wallace and Gromit may retire
Nick Park said he was unsure whether to continue the much-loved British comedy without actor Peter Sallis, who has voiced Wallace since 1990 when he accepted the voiceover job for £25, yet is growing increasingly frail at 93. The voice of the veteran, who starred in Last of the Summer Wine, is inextricably linked with Wensleydale-loving Wallace, - but Sallis is said to be in poor health.
Jim Norton, Daily Mail, 16th May 2014How we made Wallace and Gromit
Gromit was a cat, Wallace had a moustache, and their first adventure was meant to be like Star Wars - but with cheese. Nick Park and Peter Lord on creating a British classic.
Kate Abbott, The Guardian, 3rd March 2014Nick Park: Gromit was originally going to be a cat
Ahead of their appearance at the BBC Proms, the claymation duo's creator reveals how a feline Gromit turned into a dog.
Rosie Millard, Radio Times, 10th July 2012Aardman Animations, the studio behind many of Nick Park's triumphs, conjures another stop-motion corker that fairly swarms with clever little jokes and details. Our heroes here are a group of jauntily anthropomorphic chickens; they're plotting their escape to freedom from the tyrannical Mr and Mrs Tweedy, who run the farm on which they live. The voice cast boasts Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and Mel Gibson.
The Telegraph, 2nd September 2011Nick Park's Desert Island Discs: Cracking tunes, Gromit
Aardman Animations' Nick Park picked his castaway tracks and chatted about blagging half a ton of plasticine and a Wallace and Gromit rollercoaster.
Celine Bijleveld, The Guardian, 20th December 2010Nick Park hints at 3D Plasticine animation
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park has said that he would like to make a Plasticine animation in 3D.
Tim Masters, BBC News, 5th March 2010