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 ... (Producer)
1960
- The Time Machine ... (Producer)
1958
- Tom Thumb ... (Producer)
1957
- The Big Fun Carnival ... (Producer)
- The First Christmas ... (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)
- Tubby the Tuba ... (Director)
- Rhapsody in Wood ... (Director)
- Wilbur the Lion ... (Director)
- Date with Duke ... (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 Minstrels ... (Director)
- Hotlip Jasper ... (Director)
- Jasper's Boobytraps ... (Director)
- A Hatful of Dreams ... (Producer)
- My Man Jasper ... (Director)
- Jasper's Close Shave ... (Director)
1944
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Hunting ... (Director)
- Jasper's Paradise ... (Producer)
- Two-Gun Rusty ... (Director)
- Say Ah, Jasper ... (Director)
- Package for Jasper ... (Director)
- Jasper Tell ... (Director)
1943
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ... (Director)
- The Little Broadcast ... (Director)
- Bravo, Mr. Strauss ... (Director)
- Jasper's Music Lesson ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Fishing ... (Director)
- Good Night, Rusty ... (Producer)
- The Truck That Flew ... (Director)
1942
- Jasper and the Haunted House ... (Director)
- Tulips Shall Grow ... (Producer)
- Jasper and the Choo-Choo ... (Director)
- The Sky Princess ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Watermelons ... (Director)
- Mr. Strauss Takes a Walk ... (Director)
1941
- Hoola Boola ... (Director)
- Western Daze ... (Director)
- The Gay Knighties ... (Director)
- Rhythm in the Ranks ... (Director)
- Dipsy Gypsy ... (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
- South Sea Sweethearts ... (Director)
- The Great Philips Review ... (Director)
- Sky Pirates ... (Director)
- The Ballet of the Red Radio Valves ... (Director)
- De Reddingsbrigade ... (Director)
- How an Advertising Poster Came About ... (Director)
1937
- What Ho, She Bumps ... (Director)
- Rescue Brigade ... (Director)
1936
- Aladdin and the Magic Lamp ... (Director)
- On Parade! ... (Director)
- Charlie's World Cruise ... (Director)
- Ether Symphony ... (Director)
1935
- The Sleeping Beauty ... (Producer)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ... (Director)
- World's Greatest Show ... (Director)
- In Lamp Light Land ... (Director)
- The Magic Atlas ... (Director)
1934
- Philips Cavalcade ... (Director)
- The Winner ... (Director)
- A Fairy Tale About a Melancholic King ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
- Ship of the Ether ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
1932
- How Much Is Your Health Worth to You? ... (Director)
- A walk through the modern Oberst factory ... (Director)