Peter Stratford
Peter Reginald Stratford (born 27 April 1959; age 66) is a Set Designer and Art Director who worked as Set Designer on Star Trek Beyond under production designer Scott Chambliss since September 2014. [1]
Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Stratford studied architecture before he went to film and television productions. Among his first experiences are working as draftsman on Pin (1988, with Terry O'Quinn, John Pyper-Ferguson, Hélène Udy, and Jonathan Banks), appearing in a featured role in the action thriller Power Games (1989), and working as stand-in for Donald Sutherland on Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990, prosthetic makeup by Barney and Rob Burman). Today, Stratford is living in Vancouver, Canada, his home since 1997.
Stratford worked as draftsman and assistant art director on projects such as Being at Home with Claude (1992), the television movie Armen and Bullik (1993), the drama Love and Human Remains (1993), Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994), the drama Voices (1995), Silent Trigger (1996), Bleeders (1997), A Walk on the Moon (1999), Joan of Arc (1999), Insomnia (2002, with Paul Dooley), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004, with Bill Mondy), and Earthsea (2004, with Alan Scarfe).
Between 2006 and 2008, Stratford worked as assistant art director on Battlestar Galactica as well as on the spin-off movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007). On Galactica, he worked with fellow Trek alumni Ronald D. Moore, Kate Vernon, Dean Stockwell, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Doug Drexler, Pierre Drolet, Gary Hutzel, Sean Jackson, Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, Rick Worthy, Jacques Gravett, Rob Bonchune, Michelle Forbes, Jane Espenson, Gabriel Koerner, David Takemura, Kyle Toucher, Lee Stringer, and Bruce Davison.
Stratford's credits as art director include the drama The Education of Little Tree (1997, with James Cromwell), Secret Agent Man (2000, starring Dina Meyer and Paul Guilfoyle, with Musetta Vander and John de Lancie) and Breaking News (2002), The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000, with Hallie Todd), House of the Dead (2003, with Clint Howard and Adam Harrington), and Alone in the Dark (2005, starring Christian Slater).
As set designer, Stratford worked on Rainbow (1995, with Saul Rubinek), Habitat (1997, starring Alice Krige, with Kenneth Welsh, Katherine Trowell and Christopher Heyerdahl), I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998), Texas Rangers (2001, with Anthony Crivello and Breon Gorman), The Fog (2005), the pilot episode of Eureka (2006, starring Salli Elise Richardson and Joe Morton), with Matt Frewer and Rob LaBelle), The Wicker Man (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, with Patrick Stewart and produced by Stan Lee and Bryan Singer), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), 2012 (2009), Red Riding Hood (2011, starring Virginia Madsen and Billy Burke, with Michael Shanks, Lauro Chartrand, Monika Spruch and Kacey Rohl), The Cabin in the Woods (2012, with Chris Hemsworth and Tim de Zarn), Big Time Movie (2012), and White House Down (2013).
Later credits as set designer include Falling Skies (2014), The 100 (2014, with Joseph Gatt), and Backstrom (2015), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014, with Keri Russell, Enrique Murciano, Kirk Acevedo and Michael Papajohn), Tomorrowland (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino, and production design by Scott Chambliss), and Warcraft (2016, with Clancy Brown).