Robert Verrall
Production
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
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movieThe Way It Is
1986
Producer
movieThe Cap
1985
Producer
movieThe Masculine Mystique
1984
Executive Producer
John Cat
1984
Executive Producer
movieIncident at Restigouche
1984
Executive Producer
movieThe Wars
1983
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
1980
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
1979
Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
1979
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
1979
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Helen Law
1979
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Stunt Family
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Toronto
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Bill Miner
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Captain Cook
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Logger
1978
Executive Producer
movieCanada Vignettes: Faces
1978
Executive Producer
movieFace of the Earth
1975
Executive Producer
movieGoldwood
1975
Executive Producer
movieThe Bear's Christmas
1974
Executive Producer
moviePropaganda Message
1974
Executive Producer
Tickets s.v.p
1973
Executive Producer
movie11 Steps to Survival
1973
Executive Producer
movieTilt
1972
Executive Producer
Paul Kane Goes West
1972
Executive Producer
movieExeter
1972
Executive Producer
movieThe Specialist
1971
Producer
movieChristmas at Moose Factory
1971
Executive Producer
movieHot Stuff
1971
Producer
movieAshes of Doom
1970
Producer
movieThe Sky Is Blue
1969
Producer
movieTo See or Not to See
1969
Producer
movieBoomsville
1968
Producer
movieCosmic Zoom
1968
Producer
movieIn a Box
1968
Producer
movieKurelek
1967
Producer
Directing6
Visual Effects2
moviePercé on the Rocks
1964
Animation