# animate! › Films › Dad’s Dead by Chris Shepherd › full production credits

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/dadsdead/credits

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, live action and animation, digital compositing, memory, friendship, violence, peer pressure, psychological thriller, filmmaker, animation director

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**Dad’s Dead** a film by Chris Shepherd

2002, 6 min 36 sec

### a film by Chris Shepherd

### direction

**director**
Chris Shepherd

### script

**writer**
Chris Shepherd

### cast in picture

**hand artist**
Thomas Sturges-Allard

**narrator’s mother**
Kay D’Arcy

**old man**
Dave Kent

**children's book dog**
Goldie

**Johnno's dad**
John Murphy

**Johnno's mum**
Dallas Messias

**children's book boy**
Joe Robson Rutherford

**children's book lady**
Charlotte McDougall

**Johnno**
Chris Freeney

**newsreader**
Julie Maisey

### voice-over

**narrated by**
Ian Hart

### live-action personnel

**director of photography**
Peter Ellmore

**camera operator**
Neil Riley
Mark Swaffield
James Lewis

**additional photography**
David Clapham

**gaffer**
Dean Ford

**prop maker**
Andy Gent
Maria Manton

**runner**
Katrina Mernagh

**live-action effects**
Denis Russo

**production assistant**
Emma Hutchkison
Anja Nicolas

**casting director**
Lin Cordoroy

### image personnel

**animation and compositing**
Suzanne Deakin
Kirsten Kelly
James Newport
Alan Andrews
Leigh Hodgkinson
Chris Shepherd

**film grade and transfer**
Gary Brown

**editor**
Seb Dutchy

**Inferno editor**
Giles Cheetham

### incorporated image material

Kajagoogoo and Osmonds stills appear courtesy of Redferns Photo Library
**Doctor Who** cards appear courtesy of BBC Worldwide

### sound personnel

**music**
John Moore

**sound designer**
Andy Humphreys

### production personnel

**video post co-ordination**
Matt Adams, Soho 601

**producer**
Maria Manton, Slinky Pictures

**production company**
Slinky Pictures

### support

**special thanks**
Moving Image Development Agency, North West Arts Board, Liverpool Housing Action Trust, Liverpool City Council, Ealing Film Office, Sanctuary Sound, Video Europe, Cutting Edge, Sandra Harris, Babs Warmingham

Dave Groundsel, Roger Hagon, Xpression, Denis Russo, Suzanne Deakin, Michelle Yu, Sarah Peacock, Jeff Goldner, Jake Shepherd, pupils from Mission Grove Primary School London, Debra Harding, Jane Hicks, Simon Wilson & Les @ Corinth Tower, Soho 601, Digital Film Lab, 750 mph

**very special thanks**
Yvette Burrows & Chris Manton

**primary funding**
an animate! production for the Arts Council of England and Channel 4

© Chris Shepherd 2003

**Dad’s Dead** film, stills and other materials © Chris Shepherd 2003