Peter Murton

Peter Murton (September 24, 1924 — December 15, 2009) 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 .
== Career ==
Murton worked as an art director for production designer on the film Dr. Strangelove. Murton then did art direction on the next two 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. 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.
Murton worked with producer on six films: three Bond films, the first two films, and Saltzman's unmade pet project The Micronauts.
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 ==
* Art director ()
== Filmography ==
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Year 	Title 	Function 	Role 	Notes
2010 	Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime 	Production designer 	 	Film
1994 	 	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 ==
* Peter Murton is the father of Simon Murton, conceptual designer in .
== External links ==
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== References ==
Category:Art department