Robert Verrall
Production
1928-01-13 · 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.
Filmography
Documenting John Grierson
2014 · Movie
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
2009 · Movie
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
1987 · Movie
The Way It Is
1986 · Movie
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
1986 · Movie
The Cap
1985 · Movie
The Masculine Mystique
1984 · Movie
Incident at Restigouche
1984 · Movie
John Cat
1984 · Movie
The Wars
1983 · Movie
Laughter in My Soul
1983 · Movie
The Way It Is
1982 · Movie
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
1981 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
1980 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law
1979 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
1979 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
1979 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
1979 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
1979 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Faces
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Logger
1978 · Movie
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
1977 · Movie
Face of the Earth
1975 · Movie
Goldwood
1975 · Movie
The Bear's Christmas
1974 · Movie
Propaganda Message
1974 · Movie
The Family That Dwelt Apart
1973 · Movie
11 Steps to Survival
1973 · Movie
Tickets s.v.p
1973 · Movie
Exeter
1972 · Movie
Paul Kane Goes West
1972 · Movie
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
1972 · Movie
Tilt
1972 · Movie
The Specialist
1971 · Movie
Christmas at Moose Factory
1971 · Movie
Hot Stuff
1971 · Movie
Ashes of Doom
1970 · Movie
Where There's Smoke
1970 · Movie
The Sky Is Blue
1969 · Movie
To See or Not to See
1969 · Movie
Boomsville
1968 · Movie
Cosmic Zoom
1968 · Movie
Around Perception
1968 · Movie
In a Box
1968 · Movie
Kurelek
1967 · Movie
What on Earth!
1967 · Movie
The Drag
1966 · Movie
Energy and Matter
1966 · Movie
Percé on the Rocks
1964 · Movie
Appetizers
1960 · Movie
A is for Architecture
1959 · Movie
Zoo Quest to West Africa
1955 · Movie
Age of the Beaver
1952 · Movie
Time and Terrain
1948 · Movie
A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.
1948 · Movie