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Gerald Potterton RCA (8 March 1931 – 23 August 2022) was a Canadian director, animator, producer and writer. He is best known for directing the cult classic Heavy Metal and for his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
22 hours ago · One Sunday, a man looking out his window watched Gerald pass by, carrying his Bible. He thought: “If that works for that man, it could work for me.” And it did, when he gave his life to Christ ...
Aug 24, 2022 · He directed the live action film “The Ride” in 1963. In 1968, he went back to England to work among many animators on the legendary Beatles feature film “Yellow Submarine.”. Back in Canada ...
f America’s soul. In the decade leading up to A Face in the Crowd, he directed films that treated anti-Semitism (Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947); antiblack racism (Pinky, 1949); and, most famously, the influence of organized crime in labor unions in On the Waterfront (1954), his first collabora.
One of the famed “Great Brits” (Derek Lamb being the other) who emigrated to Canada from England to join the National Film Board, Potterton arrived in the mid-fifties and was at the forefront of the animation wave that gave the NFB new prominence.
Aug 25, 2022 · Gerald Potterton, the cult filmmaker who directed Heavy Metal and animated a segment of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, died Tuesday in Quebec, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) said in a...
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Gerald Potterton, director, producer, animator (b at London, UK 8 Mar 1931). Gerald Potterton trained at the Hammersmith School of Art in London and served in the Royal Air Force.
