Robert Verrall
Known for: Production
Born: January 13, 1928
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
61 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Documenting John Grierson
2014
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Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
2009
8.0
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
1987
8.0
The Way It Is
1986
8.0
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
1986
7.0
The Cap
1985
7.0
The Masculine Mystique
1984NR
John Cat
1984
7.3
Incident at Restigouche
1984
5.0
The Wars
1983
10.0
Laughter in My Soul
1983NR
The Way It Is
1982NR
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
1981
9.0
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
1980
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Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
1979
6.5
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
19796.3
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
1979
8.0
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
1979
8.0
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law
1979
10.0
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
1978
5.4
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
1978
8.0
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
1978
5.4
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
1978
6.0
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
1978
6.0
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
1978
6.3
Canada Vignettes: Logger
1978
5.6
Canada Vignettes: Faces
19787.5
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
1977
8.0
Face of the Earth
1975
9.0
Goldwood
1975
8.0
The Bear's Christmas
1974
8.0
Propaganda Message
1974
7.8
The Family That Dwelt Apart
197310.0
Tickets s.v.p
1973
7.0
11 Steps to Survival
1973
10.0
Tilt
1972
9.0
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
1972NR
Paul Kane Goes West
1972
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Exeter
1972
9.0
The Specialist
1971
8.0
Christmas at Moose Factory
1971
6.6
Hot Stuff
1971
5.1
Ashes of Doom
19708.0
Where There's Smoke
1970
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The Sky Is Blue
1969
6.7
To See or Not to See
1969
7.0
Boomsville
1968
6.5
Cosmic Zoom
1968
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In a Box
19686.8
Around Perception
1968
7.0
Kurelek
1967
6.5
What on Earth!
1967
6.8
The Drag
1966NR
Energy and Matter
1966
7.0
Percé on the Rocks
1964
9.0
Appetizers
1960NR
A is for Architecture
1959
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Zoo Quest to West Africa
19558.0
Age of the Beaver
195210.0
Time and Terrain
1948
8.0
A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.
1948