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Peter Lamont

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Forenames(s): Peter
Family name: Lamont
Interview no: 795
Interview date(s): 28 July 2018
Interviewer(s): Paul Frith
Production Media: video
Duration (mins): 85
Access Restriction: Any reuse of Eastman Colour Project interviews must be cleared with interviewee

Peter Curtis Lamont was a British set decorator, art director, and production designer most noted for working on 18 James Bond movies, from Goldfinger(1964) to Casino Royale (2006). The only Bond film that he did not work on during that period was Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) because he was work on Titanic..

Throughout his near 60-year career, Lamont was nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on Fiddler On The Roof (1971), The SpY Who Loved Me(1977), and Aliens (1986).[3] He was nominated a fourth time and won for Titanic (1997). His memoir, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.

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