Peter Foldes (22 August 1924 in Budapest – 29 March 1977 in Paris) was a Hungarian-British director and animator.
After leaving Halas, Foldes made a number of animated films in collaboration with his British wife Joan (b.
[1] A Short Vision became one of the most influential British animated films ever made, when it was screened on US television as part of the popular Ed Sullivan Show.
Although children were advised to leave the room while it played, it still caused outrage and alarm with its graphic representation of the horrors of nuclear war.
In 1997, scientists Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein earned an Academy Award for their technical achievement in computer animation with Foldes for their "pioneering work" on Hunger.