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George Pal (
February 1,
1908 –
May 2,
1980), born
György Pál Marczincsák, was a Hungarian-born
American animator and film producer, principally associated with the
science fiction genre. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe.
He was born in
Cegléd,
Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of George Pal Sr. and his wife Maria. He graduated from the
Budapest Academy of Arts in 1928. From 1928 to 1931, he made films for
Hunnia Films of
Budapest, Hungary.
In 1931 he married Zsoka Grandjean, and moving to Berlin, founded
Trickfilm-Studio Gmbh Pal und Wittke, with the
UFA Studios as its main customer from 1931 to 1933. During this time, he patented
Pal-Doll (known as
Puppetoons in the USA).
In 1933 he worked in Prague; in 1934, he made a film advertisement in his hotel room in Paris, and was invited by
Philips to make two more ad shorts. He started to use Pal-Doll techniques in Eindhoven, in a former butchery, then at villa-studio Suny Home.
He made five films before 1939 for the British company Horlicks Malted Milk. He left Germany as the Nazis came to power. In 1940, he emigrated from Europe, and began work for
Paramount Pictures At this time, his friend
Walter Lantz helped him obtain American citizenship.
As an animator, he made the
Puppetoons series in the 1940s, then switched to live action filmmaking with
The Great Rupert in 1950. He was awarded an
honorary Oscar in 1944 for "the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons".
He is best remembered as the producer of landmark
science fiction films in the 1950s and 1960s, four of which were collaborations with director
Byron Haskin. His background with the whimsical Puppetoons set the foundation for the imaginative production designs for his films during this period.
He died in
Beverly Hills, California of a
heart attack at the age of 72, and was buried in
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
The Voyage of the Berg, on which he was working at the time, was never completed.
He has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1722 Vine St. In 1980 the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences founded the "George Pal Lecture on Fantasy in Film" series in his memory.
Live action feature films
Unreleased, unfinished, or projected films
After Worlds Collide (1955)
Odd John (1967) (rights acquired only)
Logan's Run (1968)
When the Sleeper Wakes (1972)
War of the Worlds (~1974-75) Unfinished TV pilot
(1976)
The Time Traveller (1977-78) aka Time Machine II
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1979)
The Disappearance (1980) (only in preproduction)
Voyage of the Berg (1980) (only in preproduction)
Bilbliography
Gail Morgan Hickman. The Films of George Pal (South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1977) ISBN: 0498019608
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