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)
- 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
- The Great Rupert ... (Producer)
- Destination Moon ... (Producer)
1949
- City at Night as Self
1947
- Tubby the Tuba ... (Director)
- Rhapsody in Wood ... (Director)
- Shoe Shine Jasper ... (Director)
- Wilbur the Lion ... (Director)
- Date with Duke ... (Director)
1946
- Jasper in a Jam ... (Producer)
- Prospecting for Petroleum ... (Producer)
- John Henry and the Inky-Poo ... (Director)
- Together in the Weather ... (Director)
- Olio for Jasper ... (Director)
1945
- Jasper's Minstrels ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Beanstalk ... (Director)
- Jasper's Boobytraps ... (Director)
- A Hatful of Dreams ... (Director)
- Jasper's Close Shave ... (Director)
- Hot Lip Jasper ... (Director)
- My Man Jasper ... (Director)
1944
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street ... (Director)
- Jasper's Paradise ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Hunting ... (Director)
- Two-Gun Rusty ... (Director)
- Say Ah, Jasper ... (Director)
- Package for Jasper ... (Director)
- Jasper Tell ... (Director)
1943
- 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ... (Director)
- Bravo, Mr. Strauss ... (Director)
- The Little Broadcast ... (Director)
- The Truck That Flew ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Fishing ... (Director)
- Jasper's Music Lesson ... (Director)
- Good Night, Rusty ... (Producer)
1942
- Tulips Shall Grow ... (Producer)
- Jasper and the Haunted House ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Choo-Choo ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Watermelons ... (Director)
- The Sky Princess ... (Director)
- Mr. Strauss Takes a Walk ... (Director)
1941
- The Gay Knighties ... (Director)
- Hoola Boola ... (Director)
- Western Daze ... (Director)
- Rhythm in the Ranks ... (Director)
- Dipsy Gypsy ... (Director)
1940
- Friend in Need ... (Director)
- The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe ... (Director)
- The Good Bear and the Bad Bear ... (Director)
1939
- Love on the Range ... (Director)
- The Queen Was in the Parlour ... (Director)
1938
- How an Advertising Poster Came About ... (Director)
- Sky Pirates ... (Director)
- South Sea Sweethearts ... (Director)
- De Reddingsbrigade ... (Director)
- The Great Philips Review ... (Director)
- The Ballet of the Red Radio Valves ... (Director)
1937
- Rescue Brigade ... (Director)
- What Ho, She Bumps ... (Director)
1936
- Aladdin and the Magic Lamp ... (Director)
- Ether Symphony ... (Director)
- Charlie's World Cruise ... (Director)
- On Parade! ... (Director)
1935
- The Sleeping Beauty ... (Producer)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ... (Director)
- In Lamp Light Land ... (Director)
- The Magic Atlas ... (Director)
- World's Greatest Show ... (Director)
1934
- Philips Cavalcade ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
- Ship of the Ether ... (Director)
- A Fairy Tale About a Melancholic King ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
- The Winner ... (Director)
1932
- How Much Is Your Health Worth to You? ... (Director)
- A walk through the modern Oberst factory ... (Director)