James Deon Lamont, also credited as J.D. Lamont, (born 15 June 1982) is a BAFTA and EMMY winning British screenwriter and producer known for his frequent writing collaborations with Jon Foster. and for writing the
Paddington meets the Queen
sketch for the

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Career

Television & film work

James Lamont and Jon Foster are currently writing Paddington 3, after having worked on the two previous movies

Paddington Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Padd ...

and Paddington 2. In 2021 Lamont and Foster worked with Jimmy Fallon on the NBC special
5 More Sleeps 'Till Christmas
which was an adaptation of Fallon's book of the same title. Alongside writing partner Foster, Lamont wrote the Cartoon Network animated series ''

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' for which he won a BAFTA Children's Award in 2011 and 2012. '. They left the show shortly into the third season. In 2019, he co-developed the animated television series '' The Adventures of Paddington'' along with Foster for which the pair won an EMMY. The show premiered on

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, M6, and

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in the UK, and

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internationally and he will direct the third film with Foster. In 2016 the pair wrote and created their own E4 sitcom '

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' featuring

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Lamont and Foster wrote episodes for '

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' a BBC sitcom featuring

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. In 2013 the pair wrote ''

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'', along with

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Online

Lamont has written and performed for various online productions such as "Ted or Dead" for Channel Flip, "Dom Jolly's Joy Stick", Dawn Porter's Bad Girls Guides, "Ashen's Tech Dump", "Normal Activity", "Sleep Terrorist" and "Big Noises". He worked on a 30-minute webisode for Kit Kat Chunky in 2012.

Awards

Lamont, along with Jon Foster, won the 2011 and 2012 British Academy Children's Award for writing on

The Amazing world of Gumball ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' is an animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend ...

. They also won the EMMY for The Adventures of Paddington

References

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