About

Known credits:
52
Birthday:
1928-01-13
Place of birth:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Robert Verrall

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2014 Documenting John Grierson Actor N/A
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Directing
1970 Where There's Smoke Directing Director N/A
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1968 Cosmic Zoom Directing Director 58
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1966 Energy and Matter Directing Director N/A
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1960 Appetizers Directing Director N/A
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1959 A is for Architecture Directing Director N/A
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1948 A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D. Directing Director N/A
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Production
2009 Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?' Production Producer N/A
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1987 Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place Production Producer N/A
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1986 The Way It Is Production Producer N/A
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1986 Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child Production Producer N/A
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1985 The Cap Production Producer 58
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1984 The Masculine Mystique Production Executive Producer N/A
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1984 Incident at Restigouche Production Executive Producer 58
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1984 John Cat Production Executive Producer N/A
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1983 The Wars Production Executive Producer 58
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1980 Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic Production Executive Producer N/A
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1979 Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora Production Executive Producer N/A
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1979 Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine Production Executive Producer N/A
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1979 Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth Production Producer 59
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1979 Canada Vignettes: Wop May Production Executive Producer 59
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable Production Executive Producer N/A
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family Production Executive Producer N/A
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Toronto Production Executive Producer 59
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook Production Executive Producer 59
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Logger Production Executive Producer 59
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1978 Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf Production Executive Producer 59
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Faces Production Executive Producer 59
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1978 Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner Production Executive Producer 59
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1977 Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer Production Executive Producer 59
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1975 Goldwood Production Executive Producer N/A
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1975 Face of the Earth Production Executive Producer N/A
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1974 The Bear's Christmas Production Executive Producer N/A
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1974 Propaganda Message Production Executive Producer 59
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1973 The Family That Dwelt Apart Production Producer 59
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1973 Tickets s.v.p Production Executive Producer N/A
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1972 The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop Production Producer 59
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1972 Tilt Production Executive Producer N/A
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1971 The Specialist Production Producer N/A
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1971 Hot Stuff Production Producer 58
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1971 Christmas at Moose Factory Production Executive Producer 58
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1970 Ashes of Doom Production Producer 59
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1969 The Sky Is Blue Production Producer N/A
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1969 To See or Not to See Production Producer 58
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1968 Boomsville Production Producer N/A
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1968 Cosmic Zoom Production Producer 58
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1968 In a Box Production Producer N/A
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1968 Around Perception Production Producer 59
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1967 Kurelek Production Producer 58
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Editing
1948 Time and Terrain Editing Editor N/A
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Visual Effects
1964 Percé on the Rocks Visual Effects Animation N/A
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1952 Age of the Beaver Visual Effects Animation N/A
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