John Halas
Born: 1912-04-16 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died: 1995-01-21
Known For: Directing
Biography
John Halas OBE was a pioneering British animator. Together with Gyula Macskássy, and Félix Kassowitz, Halász co-founded Hungary's first animation studio, Coloriton, in 1932. Coloriton existed for 4 years, producing animations for cinemas, including Boldog király kincse.
Filmography
2018
- Secrets of British Animation as Self (archive Photos)
1994
- Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom ... (Producer)
1990
- A Memory of L Moholy-Nagy ... (Director)
1982
- Players ... (Production Manager)
1981
- Dilemma ... (Director)
- Heavy Metal ... (Sequence Supervisor)
1980
- Flying Free ... (Director)
1979
- Autobahn ... (Director)
- Dream Doll ... (Producer)
1978
- Max und Moritz ... (Art Direction)
- European Folk Tales ... (Producer)
1976
- The Twelve Tasks of Asterix ... (Animation)
1975
- How Not to Succeed in Business ... (Director)
1974
- The Three Musketeers ... (Director)
1971
- Animation Has Changed ... (Producer)
1970
- Children and Cars ... (Director)
- The Tomfoolery Show ... (Director)
- Ways and Means ... (Producer)
1969
- Topology ... (Producer)
- To Our Children's Children's Children ... (Producer)
1967
- Ruddigore ... (Producer)
- Flow Diagram ... (Producer)
- The Question ... (Producer)
- Flurina ... (Director)
- Dying for a Smoke ... (Director)
1965
- The Hoffnung Maestro ... (Director)
- The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra ... (Producer)
- The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra ... (Director)
- Birds, Bees and Storks ... (Writer)
- DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space ... (Producer)
1964
- Automania 2000 ... (Director)
- The Hoffnung Music Academy ... (Director)
- Midsummer Nightmare ... (Writer)
1963
- The Axe and the Lamp ... (Director)
1962
- Hamilton in the Music Festival ... (Director)
1961
- The Monster of Highgate Ponds ... (Producer)
- Hamilton the Musical Elephant ... (Director)
- For Better, For Worse ... (Director)
1960
- Snip and Snap ... (Producer)
1959
- Piping Hot ... (Director)
- The Christmas Visitor ... (Director)
- HaBa Tales: The Cultured Ape ... (Producer)
1956
- The Candlemaker ... (Director)
- The History of the Cinema ... (Writer)
1954
- Animal Farm ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Power to Fly ... (Producer)
- The Moving Spirit ... (Producer)
1952
- Coastal Navigation ... (Producer)
- The Owl And The Pussycat ... (Producer)
- The Figurehead ... (Producer)
1951
- Painter and Poet No. 2 ... (Producer)
- John Gilpin ... (Producer)
1950
- Fowl Play ... (Director)
- The Shoemaker and the Hatter ... (Script)
- As Old as the Hills ... (Producer)
1949
- Farmer Charley ... (Director)
- Charley Junior's Schooldays ... (Producer)
- R.A.F.: First Line of Defence ... (Director)
- Fly About the House ... (Director)
- Charley's Black Magic ... (Producer)
1948
- Charley's March of Time ... (Story)
- The Magic Canvas ... (Writer)
- Your Very Good Health ... (Director)
- Water for Firefighting ... (Director)
- Charley in New Town ... (Story)
- Robinson Charley ... (Director)
1947
- Dolly, Put the Kettle On ... (Director)
1946
- Train Trouble ... (Director)
- A Modern Guide to Health ... (Producer)
1945
- Handling Ships ... (Producer)
- 6 Little Jungle Boys ... (Director)
1944
- Christmas Wishes ... (Director)
- Cold Comfort ... (Director)
1943
- Abu's Dungeon ... (Producer)
- Abu and the Poisoned Well ... (Director)
1942
- Dustbin Parade ... (Art Designer)
- Fable of the Fabrics ... (Director)
- Filling the Gap ... (Director)
1941
- The Pocket Cartoon ... (Director)
- Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard ... (Director)
1938
- Music Man ... (Director)