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Gerald Potterton (8 March 1931 – 23 August 2022) was a British–Canadian director, writer, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the cult classic Heavy Metal and his animation work on Yellow Submarine.

Gerald Potterton
Potterton in 2016
Born	(1931-03-08)8 March 1931 London, England
Died	23 August 2022(2022-08-23) (aged 91) Lac-Brome, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Director, producer, writer, animator
Years active	1954–2022
Awards	See text

Potterton was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: as director on the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts My Financial Career and Christmas Cracker, and as producer for The Selfish Giant.

Personal life

Born in London, Potterton attended the Hammersmith Art School.[1] He emigrated from England to live in Canada in 1955.

Potterton lived in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada, where he was involved in the production of live and animated motion pictures. Inspired by Quebec's pastoral Eastern Townships, he painted landscapes and aviation subjects.[2] He died on 23 August 2022, at the age of 91.[3]

Professional career

After working as an assistant animator in London, Potterton joined the NFB in 1954 where he directed both animated and live-action films. He collaborated with Harold Pinter on Pinter's People in 1969 and Buster Keaton on The Railrodder in 1965.[4]

After contributing to George Dunning's animated feature Yellow Submarine in 1968, he returned to freelance work in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.

During the early 1970s, among other projects, he directed live-action and animated sequences for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

In 1981, he was hired by producer Ivan Reitman to direct the animated feature Heavy Metal. Potterton coordinated more than one thousand artists, animators and technicians from seventeen countries working in Los Angeles, New York, London, Montreal and Ottawa.

During the 1980s and 1990s, he continued making animated and live-action features for television and video.[5]

Potterton Productions

Established in 1968, this production company produced both live-action and animated films. Apart from Potterton's own projects, this company produced Peter Sander's The Selfish Giant and Larry Kent's Fleur Bleue in 1971, Mike Mills' The Happy Prince in 1974, The Little Mermaid in 1975, and in 1975 The Christmas Messenger. The company was closed in 1974.

Later works

Potterton recently^[when?] directed Sandy Wilson's musical The Boy Friend at Theatre Lac Brome,[6] and created and directed Peter Piper and the Plane People. Also, through Potterton Studios, he was writing A Stage Too Far.

Filmography

Production	Year	Details
Huff and Puff	1955	co-writer, co-animator with Grant Munro
Fish Spoilage Control	1956	animator
It's a Crime	1957	animator
Hors d'oeuvre	1960	co-director, co-animator with Arthur Lipsett, Derek Lamb, Kaj Pindal et al.
Life and Radiation	1960	co-animator with Kenneth Horn, Pierre L'Amare
My Financial Career	1962	director, co-animator with Grant Munro
Christmas Cracker	1963	co-director with Norman McLaren, Grant Munro, Jeff Hale
The Ride	1963	director; actor
Buster Keaton Rides Again	1965	appears as himself
The Railrodder, a. k. a. The Railroader	1965	director; writer; co-editor with Jo Kirkpatrick
Cool McCool	1966	director
The Quiet Racket	1966	director
Yellow Submarine	1968	animator
Pinter's People	1969	director
Tiki Tiki	1971	co-director with Rolan Bykov, Jack Stokes; writer; producer
The Selfish Giant	1971	producer
The Rainbow Boys, a. k. a. The Rainbow Gang	1973	director; writer
The Happy Prince	1974	producer
The Little Mermaid	1974	executive producer
The Remarkable Rocket	1975	producer; director; writer
The Christmas Messenger	1975	producer
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure	1977	animator; associate and sequence director
Canada Vignettes: Winter – Dressing Up	1979	director; writer
Canada Vignettes: Winter – Starting the Car	1979	director; writer
Heavy Metal	1981	director
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones	1983	director; animator
Rubik the Amazing Cube	1983	story director
George and the Christmas Star	1985	director; writer; producer
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow	1987	appears as himself
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	1987	animation director; title design
The Marvelous Land of Oz	1987	animation director; title design
Ozma of Oz	1987	animation director; title design
The Emerald City of Oz	1987	animation director; title design
The Smoggies	1988	director; writer; creator
The Real Story of I'm a Little Teapot	1990	director
The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep	1991	director; art director
Young Robin Hood	1991	director; writer
The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You	1992	director; writer; lyricist (The Girlie Wants a Song / The Birthday Contest Medley)

Other works

Potterton illustrated the 1977 children's book, Scouse the Mouse, by Donald Pleasence.[7] He also wrote The Star (and George), published by Harper & Row, 1968.

Awards and honours

From 1970 to 1971 Potterton served as vice-president of l'Association Internationale des films d'animation (ASIFA). He was a distinguished member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA).[8]

At the 12th Annual Cartoons on the Bay International Festival of Television Animation in Salerno, Italy, in April 2008, Potterton received the Pulcinella Lifetime Achievement Award.[9]

In September 2002, he received The Buster Award at The Buster Keaton Celebration.

Other awards include:

Award	Result	Year	Production	Remarks
Academy Award	Nomination	1962	My Financial Career
Academy Award	Nomination	1962	Christmas Cracker
Berlin International Film Festival	Won	1965	The Railrodder	honourable mention for best short film
Golden Gate Award	Won – Best Animated Short	1964	Christmas Cracker	San Francisco International Film Festival (shared with Jeff Hale, Norman McLaren, Grant Munro

See also

References

External links

• Official website
• Gerald Potterton at IMDb
• Gerald Potterton discography at Discogs
• Watch Gerald Potterton's films on the NFB website
• Gerald Potterton, Canadian Film Encyclopedia

На других языках

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[ru] Поттертон, Джеральд

Джеральд Поттертон (англ. Gerald Potterton; 8 марта 1931[1][2][3], Лондон[1] — 23 августа 2022[4]) — британо-канадский режиссёр, продюсер и мультипликатор. Наиболее известен как режиссёр ныне культового[5][6] «Хэви-метал» и своей анимационной работы над «Битлз: Жёлтая подводная лодка». Член Канадской государственной службы кинематографии.

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