# Derek Lamb

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**Derek Reginald Lamb** (20 June 1936 – 5 November 2005) was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the [National Film Board of Canada](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada)'s English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner *[Special Delivery](/source/Special_Delivery_(1978_film))*, directed by [John Weldon](/source/John_Weldon_(animator)) and [Eunice Macaulay](/source/Eunice_Macaulay), and produced and scripted [Eugene Fedorenko](/source/Eugene_Fedorenko)'s *[Every Child](/source/Every_Child_(film))*. He also created numerous animated sketches for *[Sesame Street](/source/Sesame_Street)*, sometimes in collaboration with [John Canemaker](/source/John_Canemaker).

In 1983, he and a former wife, animator [Janet Perlman](/source/Janet_Perlman), formed an independent production company. Among their productions was the *[Sports Cartoons](/source/Sports_Cartoons)* series, which aired on [Nickelodeon](/source/Nickelodeon) in the United States. Lamb and Fedorenko collaborated on the first animation sequences for an IMAX film, *Skyward*, first presented at [Expo '85](/source/Expo_'85) in [Tsukuba, Ibaraki](/source/Tsukuba,_Ibaraki), Japan.

With Fedorenko and [Perlman](/source/Perlman), Lamb created the animated [title sequence](/source/Title_sequence) of the [PBS](/source/PBS) series *[Mystery!](/source/Mystery!)* based on the art of [Edward Gorey](/source/Edward_Gorey), and a series of network ID's for [YTV](/source/YTV_(Canadian_TV_channel)) in 1991.

Lamb was also a musician. In 1962, he released an album of songs on [Folkways Records](/source/Folkways_Records) titled *She Was Poor But She Was Honest* after its [title track](/source/She_Was_Poor_but_She_Was_Honest), which included songs drawn from London music halls and pubs.[1]

Two years before his death, Lamb appeared, as himself, in the 2004 Oscar-winning animated documentary short film *[Ryan](/source/Ryan_(film))*, directed by Canadian-based animation filmmaker [Chris Landreth](/source/Chris_Landreth).

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 [Poulsbo, Washington](/source/Poulsbo,_Washington) on 5 November 2005.[2][3]

## References

1. Lamb, Derek (1962). ["She Was Poor but She Was Honest: Nice, Naughty and Nourishing Songs of the London Music Hall and Pubs"](https://folkways.si.edu/derek-lamb/she-was-poor-but-she-was-honest-nice-naughty-and-nourishing-songs-of-the-london-music-hall-and-pubs/celtic-world/music/album/smithsonian). *[Smithsonian Folkways](/source/Smithsonian_Folkways)*. Retrieved 18 June 2020.

1. ["OSCAR WINNER LAMB LOSES CANCER FIGHT"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110606155001/http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/oscar-winner-lamb-loses-cancer-fight). *Contact Music*. 6 November 2005. Archived from [the original](https://www.contactmusic.com/derek-lamb/news/oscar-winner-lamb-loses-cancer-fight) on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2009.

1. ["Tribute to Derek Lamb"](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/tribute-derek-lamb). *[Animation World Network](/source/Animation_World_Network)*. 22 December 2005. Retrieved 8 June 2022.

## External links

- [Derek Lamb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482943/) at IMDb
- [Canadian Film Encyclopedia](https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091340/http://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=1412&navid=87) [online publication, The Film Reference Library of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]

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