Robert Verrall
Production
Born 1928-01-13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Robert Verrall (born January 13, 1928, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator, director and film producer who worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1945 to 1987. Over the course of his career, his films garnered a BAFTA Award, prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, and six Academy Award nominations.
One of the first to join the NFB's fledgling animation unit, under Norman McLaren, Verrall would work as animator on such notable NFB animated shorts as The Romance of Transportation in Canada and produce such shorts as Cosmic Zoom, Hot Stuff as well as the Academy Award-nominees The Drag and What on Earth!. His NFB animation credits as executive producer included The Family That Dwelt Apart and Evolution, also Oscar nominees.[1][2][3][4]
Verrall was named director of English-language NFB animation in 1967, and director of NFB's English-language production overall, in 1972. In the 1980s he acted as executive producer on a number of NFB co-productions, including the film adaption of The Wars, and The Tin Flute. His documentary production credits include Alanis Obomsawin's 1986 Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child. He is the father of David Verrall, who would himself go on to head the NFB's English-language animation unit.
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Filmography
Producing
49 credits
Exeter
The Way It Is
Kurelek
The Wars
Boomsville
Ashes of Doom
The Way It Is
The Masculine Mystique
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law
What on Earth!
Around Perception
The Cap
Paul Kane Goes West
Cosmic Zoom
John Cat
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
11 Steps to Survival
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
The Drag
Incident at Restigouche
Face of the Earth
Christmas at Moose Factory
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
To See or Not to See
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
The Specialist
In a Box
The Sky Is Blue
Propaganda Message
Hot Stuff
Tilt
Tickets s.v.p
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
The Family That Dwelt Apart
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
Canada Vignettes: Faces
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
The Bear's Christmas
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
Canada Vignettes: Logger
Goldwood
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
Directing
6 credits
Appetizers
Cosmic Zoom
A is for Architecture
Where There's Smoke
Energy and Matter
A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.
Acting
2 credits
Other credits
2 credits
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