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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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 57% | Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1975 |
No Score Yet | 38% | The Power | Producer | - | 1968 |
86% | 78% | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao |
Director, Producer |
- | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm |
Director, Producer |
- | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 24% | Atlantis, the Lost Continent |
Director, Producer |
- | 1961 |
76% | 80% | The Time Machine |
Director, Producer |
- | 1960 |
100% | 64% | Tom Thumb |
Director, Producer |
- | 1958 |
88% | 60% | The Naked Jungle | Producer | - | 1954 |
89% | 71% | The War of the Worlds | Producer | - | 1953 |
85% | 59% | Houdini | Producer | - | 1953 |
81% | 63% | When Worlds Collide | Producer | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 51% | The Great Rupert | Producer | - | 1950 |
67% | 48% | Destination Moon | Producer | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tubby the Tuba |
Director, Producer |
- | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | John Henry and the Inky-Poo |
Director, Cinematographer |
- | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street |
Director, Cinematographer |
- | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins |
Director, Producer, Cinematographer |
- | 1943 |