Peter Murton, Acclaimed Production Designer, Passes Away

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PETER MURTON, ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION DESIGNER, ...

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Peter Murton (left) with fellow Bond production design masters Peter Lamont and Ken Adam at a recent James Bond event at Pinewood Studio's Theatre Seven.

We have just learned that our dear friend, production designer Peter Murton, passed away just before Christmas. Peter worked on many early Bond films in the art department, and was the production designer for The Man With The Golden Gun. A regular guest at the many Bondstars events at Pinewood Studios, Peter always entertained the fans with his stories about working on movies such as Death on the Nile, Superman 2 and 3, The Lion in Winter, The Ipcress File and many, many more he was involved with in a career spanning some sixty years. He worked alongside Retro's Dave Worrall a few years back on The Eagle Has Landed DVD documentary, for it was Peter who transformed the private Oxfordshire village of Mapledurham into the fictional hamlet of Studley Constable as seen in the film.Cinema Retro mourns the passing of this great artist.