Biography
Richard Beek is a British film producer at Aardman Animations. He studied Film/Cinema/Video Studies at Kingsfield School in Bristol from 1996 to 1999 and began working at Aardman in 2000 as a floor runner on Chicken Run.
He served as production manager on the Shaun the Sheep television series (2007–2014) and several Wallace & Gromit and Pirates! projects. Beek received producer credits beginning with Early Man (2018) and has since worked on A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019, co-producer), Robin Robin (2021) and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024). He has also provided additional voices for some Aardman productions. In 2025 he shared BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Vengeance Most Fowl.
