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Robert Verrall
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…
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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.
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1987
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
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1986
The Way It Is
Movie Producer
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1986
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
Movie Producer
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1985
The Cap
Movie Producer
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1984
The Masculine Mystique
Movie Executive Producer
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1984
Incident at Restigouche
Movie Executive Producer
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1984
John Cat
Movie Executive Producer
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1983
The Wars
Movie Executive Producer
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1983
Laughter in My Soul
Movie Executive Producer
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1982
The Way It Is
Movie Executive Producer
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1981
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
Movie Executive Producer
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1980
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
Movie Executive Producer
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1979
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Movie Executive Producer
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1979
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law
Movie Executive Producer
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1979
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
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1979
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
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1979
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
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1978
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Faces
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Logger
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
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1978
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
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1977
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
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1975
Face of the Earth
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1975
Goldwood
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1974
Propaganda Message
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1974
The Bear's Christmas
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1973
The Family That Dwelt Apart
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1973
11 Steps to Survival
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1973
Tickets s.v.p
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1972
Exeter
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1972
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
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1972
Paul Kane Goes West
Movie Executive Producer
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1972
Tilt
Movie Executive Producer
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1971
The Specialist
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