Nick Park | Biography, Movies, & Facts
Nick Park, in full Nicholas Wulstan Park, (born December 6, 1958, Preston, Lancashire, England), British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit. Park demonstrated an early ability to draw, and by age 13 he was animating his cartoon creation Walter the Rat with his mother’s standard 8-mm movie camera. When he was 15, one of his homemade films was shown on television as part of a BBC young animators’ film competition. After graduating from the Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University), Park attended the National Fil...
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