George Pal

Born: 1908-01-31, Cegléd, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Died: 1980-05-02

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

• The War of the Worlds (1953)
• Tom Thumb (1958)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
• Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
• Hoola Boola (1941)
• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1944)
• Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943)
• Jasper and the Haunted House (1942)
• De Groote Philips Revue (1938)
• The Gay Knighties (1941)
• Jasper and the Beanstalk (1945)
• Jasper's Minstrels (1945)
• Say Ah, Jasper (1944)
• Bravo, Mr. Strauss (1943)
• Love on the Range (1939)
• John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
• Jasper's Boobytraps (1945)
• Hotlip Jasper (1945)
• South Sea Sweethearts (1938)
• Jasper's Music Lesson (1943)
• Rhapsody in Wood (1947)
• De Reddingbrigade (1937)
• Shoe Shine Jasper (1947)
• Jasper and the Choo-Choo (1942)
• Ein Gang durch die moderne Oberst-Fabrik (1932)
• Jasper Goes Hunting (1944)
• Two-Gun Rusty (1944)
• Pohádka o Melancholickém Králu (1934)