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George Pal

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  • Birth Place: Cegled, Hungary
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 02/01/1908, Aquarius
  • Date of Death: 05/02/1980
  • Profession: Director; producer; cinematographer
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George Pal Fast Facts:
  • Pioneer of stop-motion animation trained as an architect in his native Hungary but was unable to find work in that field.
  • Began his film career at the UFA studio in Berlin and then made a series of animated puppet short films in Holland before moving to the United States, where he created his Puppetoons series for Paramount Pictures.
  • His first feature-length film was Destination Moon (1950) for Paramount, which won an Oscar for special effects, as did When Worlds Collide (1951) and War of the Worlds (1953).
  • Made his directing debut with Tom Thumb (1958) for MGM.
  • His final film was 1975's Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze; its disappointing box-office performance prevented him from making a planning series of science-fiction movies.
  • George Pal Relationships:
  • Zsoka - Wife
  • George Pal Awards:
  • 1941 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1942 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1943 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1944 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1945 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1946 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1947 Oscar: Best Short Subject (Cartoon) - Nominee
  • 1943 Oscar: Special Award - Winner
  • College:
  • Budapest Academy of the Arts, Budapest, Hungary
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