Joy Batchelor

Known for DirectingBorn 1914-05-22Died 1991-05-14Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger. Together they created over 2000 shorts/films, and produced roughly 70 propaganda pieces during World War II for the British government. She helped co-write, write, animate, produce, and direct many of their productions. One of her projects as an art director was Cinerama Holiday (1955). Joy directed and wrote Ruddigore (1967), a television-film adaptation of W.S. Gilbert's opera of the same name, which became the first opera to be adapted into an animated film. She later worked in television, directing series, including animated shows like The Jackson 5ive (1971). Batchelor died on 14 May 1991, just two days after her 77th birthday.Read more

Movies & web series

Abu's Dungeon

Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard

Coastal Navigation

Filling the Gap

DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space

Dustbin Parade

Music Man

Ruddigore

Automania 2000

Animal Farm

Midsummer Nightmare

The Figurehead

Charley in New Town

The Magic Canvas

Train Trouble

Handling Ships

The Monster of Highgate Ponds

Secrets of British Animation

6 Little Jungle Boys

The Christmas Visitor

Your Very Good Health

Charley's March of Time

Dolly, Put the Kettle On

The Candlemaker

Charley Junior's Schooldays

Ode to Joy

European Folk Tales

The Five

Dying for a Smoke

Little Tom Thumb

Hamilton in the Music Festival

Piping Hot

Down a Long Way

The Moving Spirit

Fowl Play

The Shoemaker and the Hatter

R.A.F.: First Line of Defence

Farmer Charley

Charley's Black Magic

Fly About the House

Robinson Charley

A Modern Guide to Health

Cold Comfort

Christmas Wishes

Abu and the Poisoned Well

Fable of the Fabrics