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
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
(2022) The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
as Self (archive footage)