PETER WALPOLE
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
FILM & TELEVISION
PETER WALPOLE - PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Peter has worked with many notable Directors, including a collaboration with Lana & Lilly Wachowski on nine separate projects. Peter moved up through the art department and then fully production designed SENSE 8: THE FINALE with the Wachowskis. It was a highly anticipated two-and-a-half hour conclusion to the popular Netflix series and was shot in Naples. Paris, Belgium and Berlin.
Peter then spent six months of intensive research, design and location scouting for the Amazon/Amblin project CORTEZ, which takes place in 1520. It is currently on hold.
He was then available to continue his collaboration with Lana Wachowski on the critically acclaimed, THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS. As the co-Production Designer, he spent 18 months designing and shooting in San Francisco and Berlin.
SENSE 8: THE FINALE brought Peter the Best Production Design award from the British Film Designers Guild. Additionally, he has been nominated for an Emmy for his work on DINATOPIA and received a nomination from the Art Directors Guild (ADG) for his work on CLOUD ATLAS.
Peter has worked in over 30 countries across the globe from England to Australia, on such films including Star Wars, A Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones, Alien Vs Predator, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, Jason Bourne and Sense8.
In 2023 Peter production designed, Legendary Pictures’ feature film The Book of Clarence, directed by Jeymes Samuel (The Harder they Fall) . The film stars Lakeith Stanfield , Benedict Cumberbatch and James McAvoy and was filmed in Italy’s Cinecittà Studio and on location in Matera.
Peter Walpole 2024
AWARDS
British Film Designers Guild Winner - Best Production Design, International TV Drama for Sense8 Finalé
AWARD NOMINATIONS
‘Prime Time Emmy’ for Dinotopia [Outstanding Art Direction for a Mini Series] in 2002.
‘The Art Directors Guild of America’ [Excellence in Production Design] for Cloud Atlas 2013.
OVERSEAS LOCATION WORK
Finland, France, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Venice, Italy, Turkey, Prague, Thailand, Morocco, Tunisia, Ireland, Philippines, South Africa, Australia, Mallorca, Malta, Romania, Latvia, Germany, Spain, Tenerife, Hungary, Iceland, South Korea, India, Mexico, Kenya and the United States of America.