Robert Verrall
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Documenting John Grierson
2014
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
Producer (Production)
2009
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
Producer (Production)
1987
The Way It Is
Producer (Production)
1986
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
Producer (Production)
1986
The Cap
Producer (Production)
1985
The Masculine Mystique
Executive Producer (Production)
1984
John Cat
Executive Producer (Production)
1984
Incident at Restigouche
Executive Producer (Production)
1984
The Wars
Executive Producer (Production)
1983
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
Executive Producer (Production)
1980
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
Executive Producer (Production)
1979
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
Producer (Production)
1979
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Executive Producer (Production)
1979
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
Executive Producer (Production)
1979
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Logger
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Faces
Executive Producer (Production)
1978
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
Executive Producer (Production)
1977
Face of the Earth
Executive Producer (Production)
1975
Goldwood
Executive Producer (Production)
1975
The Bear's Christmas
Executive Producer (Production)
1974
Propaganda Message
Executive Producer (Production)
1974
The Family That Dwelt Apart
Producer (Production)
1973
Tickets s.v.p
Executive Producer (Production)
1973
11 Steps to Survival
Executive Producer (Production)
1973
Tilt
Executive Producer (Production)
1972
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
Producer (Production)
1972
The Specialist
Producer (Production)
1971
Christmas at Moose Factory
Executive Producer (Production)
1971
Hot Stuff
Producer (Production)
1971
Ashes of Doom
Producer (Production)
1970
Where There's Smoke
Director (Directing)
1970
The Sky Is Blue
Producer (Production)
1969
To See or Not to See
Producer (Production)
1969
Boomsville
Producer (Production)
1968
Cosmic Zoom
Producer (Production)
1968
In a Box
Producer (Production)
1968
Around Perception
Producer (Production)
1968
Kurelek
Producer (Production)
1967
Energy and Matter
Director (Directing)
1966
Percé on the Rocks
Animation (Visual Effects)
1964
Appetizers
Director (Directing)
1960
A is for Architecture
Director (Directing)
1959
Age of the Beaver
Animation (Visual Effects)
1952