Derek Reginald Lamb (20 June 1936 – 5 November 2005) was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the

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's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner '' Special Delivery'', directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted

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's '' Every Child''. He also created numerous animated sketches for ''

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'', sometimes in collaboration with John Canemaker. In 1983, he and a former wife, animator Janet Perlman, formed an independent production company. Among their productions was the ''

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'' series, which aired on

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in the United States. Lamb and Fedorenko collaborated on the first animation sequences for an IMAX film, ''Skyward'', first presented at

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, Japan. With Fedorenko and Perlman, Lamb created the animated

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of the

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series ''

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'' based on the art of Edward Gorey, and a series of network ID's for YTV in 1991. Lamb was also a musician. In 1962, he released an album of songs on Folkways Records titled ''She Was Poor But She Was Honest'' after its

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, which included songs drawn from London music halls and pubs. Two years before his death, Lamb appeared, as himself, in the 2004 Oscar-winning animated documentary short film '' Ryan'', directed by Canadian-based animation filmmaker

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. From his first marriage, he had two sons: Richard Steven Lamb (born in London on 27 September 1963) and Thomas Derek Lamb (born in Cambridge on 3 March 1966). He died at the age of 69 from cancer, at a friend's home in

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on 5 November 2005.

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Canadian Film Encyclopedia
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