Robert Verrall
Robert Verrall (born January 13, 1928, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator, director and film producer who worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1945 to 1987. Over the course of his career, his films garnered a BAFTA Award, prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, and six Academy Award nominations. One of the first to join the NFB's fledgling animation unit, under Norman McLaren, Verrall would work as animator on such notable NFB animated shorts as The Romance of Transportation in Canada and produce such shorts as Cosmic Zoom, Hot Stuff as well as the Academy Award-nominees The Drag and What on Earth!. His NFB animation credits as executive producer included The Family That Dwelt Apart and Evolution, also Oscar nominees.[1][2][3][4] Verrall was named director of English-language NFB animation in 1967, and director of NFB's English-language production overall, in 1972. In the 1980s he acted as executive producer on a number of NFB co-productions, including the film adaption of The Wars, and The Tin Flute. His documentary production credits include Alanis Obomsawin's 1986 Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child. He is the father of David Verrall, who would himself go on to head the NFB's English-language animation unit.
Energy and Matter
(Director)
In a Box
(Producer)
Tilt
(Executive Producer)
Face of the Earth
(Executive Producer)
Cosmic Zoom
(Producer)
John Cat
(Executive Producer)
Ashes of Doom
(Producer)
The Sky Is Blue
(Producer)
The Masculine Mystique
(Executive Producer)
Incident at Restigouche
(Executive Producer)
Christmas at Moose Factory
(Executive Producer)
The Cap
(Producer)
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
(Producer)
Tickets s.v.p
(Executive Producer)
Age of the Beaver
(Animation)
Around Perception
(Producer)
The Wars
(Executive Producer)
The Specialist
(Producer)
A is for Architecture
(Director)
Boomsville
(Producer)
The Bear's Christmas
(Executive Producer)
Appetizers
(Director)
Goldwood
(Executive Producer)
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
(Producer)
Time and Terrain
(Editor)
Propaganda Message
(Executive Producer)
The Family That Dwelt Apart
(Producer)
Kurelek
(Producer)
A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.
(Director)
The Way It Is
(Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
(Producer)
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Logger
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Faces
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
(Executive Producer)
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
(Executive Producer)
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
(Producer)
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
(Producer)
Percé on the Rocks
(Animation)
To See or Not to See
(Producer)
Where There's Smoke
(Director)
Hot Stuff
(Producer)
Cosmic Zoom
(Director)
11 Steps to Survival
(Executive Producer)