Robert Verrall

Known for ProductionBorn 1928-01-13 (age 98) 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable

Tickets s.v.p

Tilt

Time and Terrain

Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic

Goldwood

The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop

The Specialist

Appetizers

Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place

Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child

The Way It Is

Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine

Canada Vignettes: Helen Law

Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

Face of the Earth

The Bear's Christmas

Propaganda Message

Christmas at Moose Factory

Where There's Smoke

The Family That Dwelt Apart

Age of the Beaver

A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.

Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer

Incident at Restigouche

The Cap

The Masculine Mystique

11 Steps to Survival

Boomsville

Kurelek

Percé on the Rocks

Around Perception

Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth

Cosmic Zoom

Hot Stuff

Canada Vignettes: Wop May

Canada Vignettes: Logger

To See or Not to See

Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

Canada Vignettes: Faces

Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

Canada Vignettes: Toronto

The Wars

Ashes of Doom

Documenting John Grierson

Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'

John Cat