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Robert Verrall
Producer, Director, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn January 13, 1928 (97 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2013 | Canada Vignettes: Faces · as Executive Producer |
| 1987 | |
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| 1985 | Bayo · as Executive Producer |
| 1984 | The Masculine Mystique · as Executive Producer |
| 1984 | Incident at Restigouche · as Executive Producer |
| 1984 | Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair · as Executive Producer |
| 1983 | The Tin Flute · as Executive Producer |
| 1982 | The Wars · as Executive Producer |
| 1981 | The Man Who Discovered America · as Executive Producer |
| 1981 | Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Going the Distance · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Canada Vignettes: Wop May · as Executive Producer |
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| 1979 | Canada Vignettes: Ma chère Albertine · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Canada Vignettes: Logger · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Canada Vignettes: The Performer · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | No Apple for Johnny · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | Goldwood · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | Face of the Earth · as Executive Producer |
| 1974 | The Bear's Christmas · as Executive Producer |
| 1974 | Propaganda Message · as Executive Producer |
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| 1973 | Tickets s.v.p · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | Man: The Polluter · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | The Twitch · as Executive Producer |
| 1972 | Hard Rider · as Executive Producer |
| 1972 | The Underground Movie · as Executive Producer |
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| 1971 | Christmas at Moose Factory · as Executive Producer |
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