Mark Burton (writer)

For other people named Mark Burton, see Mark Burton (disambiguation).

Mark Burton
Burton in 2015
Nationality	British
Occupation	Screenwriter, composer
Notable work	Shaun the Sheep Movie

Mark Burton is a British screenwriter specialising in comedy.

Television and radio career

After turning up at BBC Radio's Light Entertainment Department, Burton teamed up with John O'Farrell and the two were commissioned for Week Ending by Harry Thompson (who later named his two pet rats Burton and O’Farrell). The pair won the BBC Light Entertainment Contract Award, and went on to write or contribute to a number of radio series, including Little Blighty on the Down, McKay the New and with Pete Sinclair, the multi-award winning A Look Back at the Nineties and Look Back at the Future in which Burton also performed.^[1] Burton also created the BBC Radio 4 panel game We've Been Here Before presented by Clive Anderson.

Burton and O’Farrell were commissioned for Spitting Image in 1988 and the following year became two of the lead writers on the show. They also wrote for Clive Anderson Talks Back, Nick Hancock on Room 101, Murder Most Horrid, and co-wrote some of the Heads to Heads for Alas Smith and Jones. In 1993, they left Spitting Image and became the first writers credited for the scripted parts of Have I Got News For You. Also for Hat Trick Productions they wrote a BBC1 sitcom The Peter Principle starring Jim Broadbent (known as The Boss in the US).

Screenwriting

The pair are credited for ‘additional dialogue’ for the Aardman film Chicken Run, but after a decade of collaboration, Burton and O'Farrell began to work on separate projects. Although he continued to do some TV comedy scriptwriting (with credits for 2DTV, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Mike Bassett: Manager) Burton began to focus on screenwriting, most notably with the DreamWorks animation Madagascar. Other major screenplay credits include Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (which won an Oscar in 2006 for Best Animated Feature Film), Gnomeo and Juliet and Aliens in the Attic. He adapted the novel of his former writing partner for the ITV film 'May Contain Nuts' and also wrote and produced the BBC short film One of those Days.

Composing

Burton is a musician and songwriter, having composed the music for the comedy rock musical The Next Big Thing which he wrote and produced with Pete Sinclair. He also shares the credit for the original music in 'One Of Those Days' and has written songs and parodies for a number of radio shows.

References

↑ Alphabetical Name Index, "RadioHaHa".

External links

Mark Burton (IV) at the Internet Movie Database
Berlin Associates — Burton's profile on his agent's website
- BBC Short film 'One Of Those Days'.

Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production

Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 12592198 ISNI: 0000 0000 6301 4793 SUDOC: 132263742 BNF: cb150586950 (data)

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