Robert Verrall

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Birthday 1928-01-13 (96 years old)

Place of Birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Known For

Producer

1986
The Way It Is

as Producer

1985
The Cap

as Producer

1984
John Cat

as Executive Producer

1984
The Masculine Mystique

as Executive Producer

1984
Incident at Restigouche

as Executive Producer

1983
The Wars

as Executive Producer

1979
Canada Vignettes: Wop May

as Executive Producer

1979
1978
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

as Executive Producer

1978
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

as Executive Producer

1978
Canada Vignettes: Toronto

as Executive Producer

1978
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

as Executive Producer

1978
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

as Executive Producer

1978
Canada Vignettes: Logger

as Executive Producer

1978
Canada Vignettes: Faces

as Executive Producer

1977
1975
Face of the Earth

as Executive Producer

1975
Goldwood

as Executive Producer

1974
The Bear's Christmas

as Executive Producer

1974
Propaganda Message

as Executive Producer

1973
Tickets s.v.p

as Executive Producer

1972
Tilt

as Executive Producer

1971
Christmas at Moose Factory

as Executive Producer

1971
The Specialist

as Producer

1971
Hot Stuff

as Producer

1970
Ashes of Doom

as Producer

1969
The Sky Is Blue

as Producer

1969
1968
In a Box

as Producer

1968
Cosmic Zoom

as Producer

1968
Around Perception

as Producer

1968
Boomsville

as Producer

1967
Kurelek

as Producer

Director

1970
1968
Cosmic Zoom

as Director

1966
Energy and Matter

as Director

1960
Appetizers

as Director

1959

Visual Effects

1964
Percé on the Rocks

as Animation

1952
Age of the Beaver

as Animation

Editor

1948