Robert Verrall
Known for
Producing
Born
January 13, 1928 (age 98)
Birthplace
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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 prod...
Best known work
Filmography
2014
2009
1987
1986
The Way It IsProducer
1986
1985
The CapProducer
1984
The Masculine MystiqueExecutive Producer
1984
John CatExecutive Producer
1984
Incident at RestigoucheExecutive Producer
1983
The WarsExecutive Producer
1983
Laughter in My SoulExecutive Producer
1982
The Way It IsExecutive Producer
1981
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley MowatExecutive Producer
1980
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec ArcticExecutive Producer
1979
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest KenoraExecutive Producer
1979
Canada Vignettes: Woolly MammothProducer
1979
Canada Vignettes: Wop MayExecutive Producer
1979
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère AlbertineExecutive Producer
1979
Canada Vignettes: Helen LawExecutive Producer
1978
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew FableExecutive Producer
1978
Canada Vignettes: The Maple LeafExecutive Producer
1978
Canada Vignettes: Stunt FamilyExecutive Producer
1978
Canada Vignettes: TorontoExecutive Producer
1978
Canada Vignettes: Bill MinerExecutive Producer
1978
Canada Vignettes: Captain CookExecutive Producer









