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George Pal

Highest Rated: 100% Tom Thumb (1958)

Lowest Rated: 67% Destination Moon (1950)

Birthday: Feb 1, 1908

Birthplace: Cegléd, Austria-Hungary

Set designer with UFA before moving in the 1930s to Western Europe, where he produced ingenious short advertising films featuring wire-jointed, stylized puppets. In 1940 Pal moved to Hollywood, where he produced the "Puppetoons" series for Paramount and began directing and/or producing special-effects oriented features including "War of the Worlds" (1953) and "The Time Machine" (1960). He received a special Academy Award in 1943 for developing a technique which combined animation with live action.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 63% Tom Thumb
Watchlist 89% 71% The War of the Worlds Watchlist
88% 60% The Naked Jungle
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86% 78% 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
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85% 59% Houdini
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81% 64% When Worlds Collide
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76% 80% The Time Machine
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67% 49% Destination Moon
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38% The Power
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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
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George Pal

George Pal THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, producer-director George Pal, 1962 DESTINATION MOON, George Pal presented Oscar for Special Effects from jane Greer, 1950 TOM THUMB, Russ Tamblyn and director George Pal, publicity shot, 1958 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, direcotr George Pal, Russ Tamblyn, Yvette Mimieux, on-set, 1962 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, producer, director George Pal, Russ Tamblyn, Jim Backus, on-set, 1962 SIGN OF THE WOLF, Darryl Hickman, Smokey the Dog, 1941 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, George Pal figures, 1962 DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE, director Michael Anderson, producer George Pal, on lcoation, 1975 View more photos

Filmography

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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze 57% 1975 Screenwriter, Producer The Power 38% 1968 Producer 7 Faces of Dr. Lao 86% 78% 1964 Director, Producer The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 61% 1962 Director, Producer Atlantis, the Lost Continent 24% 1961 Director, Producer The Time Machine 76% 80% 1960 Director, Producer Tom Thumb 100% 63% 1958 Director, Producer The Naked Jungle 88% 60% 1954 Producer The War of the Worlds 89% 71% 1953 Producer Houdini 85% 59% 1953 Producer When Worlds Collide 81% 64% 1951 Producer The Great Rupert 50% 1950 Producer Destination Moon 67% 49% 1950 Producer Tubby the Tuba 1947 Director, Producer John Henry and the Inky-Poo 1946 Director, Cinematographer And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street 1944 Director, Cinematographer The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins 1943 Director, Producer, Cinematographer The Ship of the Ether 1934 Director
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