Production
Robert Verrall
1928-01-13 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
Cosmic Zoom
What on Earth!
The Family That Dwelt Apart
Ashes of Doom
Hot Stuff
To See or Not to See
Around Perception
The Drag
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
Canada Vignettes: Faces
The Wars
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Canada Vignettes: Logger
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
Christmas at Moose Factory
Movie credits · 61
Documenting John Grierson
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
The Way It Is
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
The Cap
The Masculine Mystique
John Cat
Incident at Restigouche
The Wars
Laughter in My Soul
The Way It Is
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
Canada Vignettes: Logger
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
Canada Vignettes: Faces
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
Face of the Earth
Goldwood
The Bear's Christmas
Propaganda Message
The Family That Dwelt Apart
Tickets s.v.p
11 Steps to Survival
Tilt
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
Paul Kane Goes West
Exeter
The Specialist
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