George Pal
Born: 1908-01-31 in Cegléd, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died: 1980-05-02
Known For: Directing
Biography
George Pal (born Gyorgy Pal Marczincsak; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer. He is best known for his classic Puppetoon replacement animation short films, as well as his association with the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres. Pal was nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoons) in seven consecutive years (1942–1948). He received an honorary Oscar, for the development of novel animation methods and techniques, in 1944.
Filmography
1986
1975
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze ... (Screenplay)
1971
- The Tool Box ... (Producer)
1968
- The Power ... (Producer)
1964
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao ... (Director)
1962
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ... (Director)
1961
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent ... (Director)
1960
- The Time Machine ... (Director)
1958
- Tom Thumb ... (Producer)
1957
- The Big Fun Carnival ... (Director)
1955
- Conquest of Space ... (Producer)
1954
- The Naked Jungle ... (Producer)
1953
- The War of the Worlds as Bum #1 Listening to Radio (uncredited)
- Houdini ... (Producer)
1951
- When Worlds Collide ... (Producer)
1950
- Destination Moon ... (Producer)
- The Great Rupert ... (Producer)
1949
- City at Night as Self
1947
- Shoe Shine Jasper ... (Director)
- Date with Duke ... (Director)
- Tubby the Tuba ... (Director)
- Wilbur the Lion ... (Director)
- Rhapsody in Wood ... (Director)
1946
- Jasper in a Jam ... (Producer)
- John Henry and the Inky-Poo ... (Director)
- Together in the Weather ... (Director)
- Prospecting for Petroleum ... (Producer)
- Olio for Jasper ... (Director)
1945
- Jasper and the Beanstalk ... (Director)
- Jasper's Boobytraps ... (Director)
- Jasper's Minstrels ... (Director)
- My Man Jasper ... (Director)
- Jasper's Close Shave ... (Director)
- Hot Lip Jasper ... (Director)
1944
- Jasper's Paradise ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Hunting ... (Director)
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street ... (Director)
- Say Ah, Jasper ... (Director)
- Package for Jasper ... (Director)
- A Hatful of Dreams ... (Director)
- Jasper Tell ... (Director)
- Two-Gun Rusty ... (Director)
1943
- The Little Broadcast ... (Director)
- 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ... (Director)
- Jasper's Music Lesson ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Fishing ... (Director)
- The Truck That Flew ... (Director)
- Bravo, Mr. Strauss ... (Director)
- Good Night, Rusty ... (Producer)
1942
- Tulips Shall Grow ... (Producer)
- Jasper and the Haunted House ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Watermelons ... (Director)
- The Sky Princess ... (Director)
- Mr. Strauss Takes a Walk ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Choo-Choo ... (Director)
1941
- Hoola Boola ... (Director)
- The Gay Knighties ... (Director)
- Dipsy Gypsy ... (Director)
- Rhythm in the Ranks ... (Director)
- Western Daze ... (Director)
1940
- The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe ... (Director)
- Friend in Need ... (Director)
- The Good Bear and the Bad Bear ... (Director)
1939
- Love on the Range ... (Director)
- The Queen Was in the Parlour ... (Director)
1938
- The Great Philips Review ... (Director)
- South Sea Sweethearts ... (Director)
- De Reddingsbrigade ... (Director)
- How an Advertising Poster Came About ... (Director)
- The Ballet of the Red Radio Valves ... (Director)
- Sky Pirates ... (Director)
1937
- What Ho, She Bumps ... (Director)
- Rescue Brigade ... (Director)
1936
- Aladdin and the Magic Lamp ... (Director)
- Ether Symphony ... (Director)
- Charlie's World Cruise ... (Director)
- On Parade! ... (Director)
1935
- The Sleeping Beauty ... (Producer)
- In Lamp Light Land ... (Director)
- The Magic Atlas ... (Director)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ... (Director)
- World's Greatest Show ... (Director)
1934
- Philips Cavalcade ... (Director)
- A Fairy Tale About a Melancholic King ... (Director)
- Ship of the Ether ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
1932
- Wieviel ist Ihnen Ihre Gesundheit wert? ... (Director)
- A walk through the modern Oberst factory ... (Director)