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
- Tubby the Tuba ... (Director)
- Rhapsody in Wood ... (Director)
- Date with Duke ... (Director)
- Shoe Shine Jasper ... (Director)
- Wilbur the Lion ... (Director)
1946
- Jasper in a Jam ... (Producer)
- John Henry and the Inky-Poo ... (Director)
- Prospecting for Petroleum ... (Producer)
- Together in the Weather ... (Director)
- Olio for Jasper ... (Director)
1945
- Jasper's Minstrels ... (Director)
- Jasper's Boobytraps ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Beanstalk ... (Director)
- Hotlip Jasper ... (Director)
- My Man Jasper ... (Director)
- A Hatful of Dreams ... (Producer)
- Jasper's Close Shave ... (Director)
1944
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street ... (Director)
- Jasper's Paradise ... (Producer)
- Jasper Goes Hunting ... (Director)
- Say Ah, Jasper ... (Director)
- Package for Jasper ... (Director)
- Two-Gun Rusty ... (Director)
- Jasper Tell ... (Director)
1943
- Bravo, Mr. Strauss ... (Director)
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ... (Director)
- The Truck That Flew ... (Director)
- Jasper's Music Lesson ... (Director)
- Jasper Goes Fishing ... (Director)
- The Little Broadcast ... (Director)
- Good Night, Rusty ... (Producer)
1942
- Jasper and the Haunted House ... (Director)
- Tulips Shall Grow ... (Producer)
- The Sky Princess ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Choo-Choo ... (Director)
- Jasper and the Watermelons ... (Director)
- Mr. Strauss Takes a Walk ... (Director)
1941
- The Gay Knighties ... (Director)
- Hoola Boola ... (Director)
- Rhythm in the Ranks ... (Director)
- Dipsy Gypsy ... (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)
- 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)
- Charlie's World Cruise ... (Director)
- On Parade! ... (Director)
- Ether Symphony ... (Director)
1935
- The Sleeping Beauty ... (Producer)
- In Lamp Light Land ... (Director)
- The Magic Atlas ... (Director)
- World's Greatest Show ... (Director)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ... (Director)
1934
- Philips Cavalcade ... (Director)
- The Winner ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
- Ship of the Ether ... (Director)
- A Fairy Tale About a Melancholic King ... (Director)
- Radio Valve Revolution ... (Director)
1932
- How Much Is Your Health Worth to You? ... (Director)
- A walk through the modern Oberst factory ... (Director)