Peter Foldès

Peter Foldès

Directing

Birthday

1924/08/22

Day of death

1977/03/29 (52 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Budapest, Hungary

Also know as

Peter Foldes

Biography

Budapest-born Peter Foldes (1924-1977) was one of a number of Hungarian artists (another was the film's composer Mátyás Seiber) who ended up working with fellow countryman John Halas on the latter's animated films after he moved to Britain in 1946. After leaving Halas, Foldes made a number of animated films in collaboration with his British wife Joan (b. 1924), starting with the allegorical Animated Genesis (1952), On Closer Inspection (1953) and A Short Vision (1956). A Short Vision became one...Read more

Acting
L'Animographe, ou Je suis né dans une boîte à chaussures
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(2022) The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

as Self (archive footage)