George Pal
George Pal was born in Cegléd, Pest County, Hungary on February 1st, 1908 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 72, George Pal biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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For seven years (1942–1948), he was nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best Short Subjects, Cartoon) (1942–1948) and was given an honorary award in 1944. After Miklós Rózsa, he is the second-most nominated Hungarian exile (along with William S. Darling and Ernest Laszlo).
Early life and career
Pal was born in Cegléd, Hungary, the son of György Pál Marczincsak, Sr. and his wife Mária. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1928 (aged 20). He made films for the Hunnia Film Studio in Budapest, Hungary, from 1928 to 1931.
He married Elisabeth "Zsóka" Grandjean in 1931 and, after moving to Berlin, established Trickfilm-Studio GmbH Pal and Wittke, with UFA Studios as the company's most important client from 1931 to 1933. He created the Pal-Doll technique (also known as Puppets in the United States) during this period.
He worked in Prague in 1933 and was invited by Philips to make two more ad shorts. In Eindhoven, he first used Pal-Doll techniques, first at a butchery, then at villa-studio Suny Home. When the Nazis took power, he left Germany.
He made five films for the British firm Horlicks Malted Milk before 1939. He moved from Europe to the United States in December of this year and began photographing for He was 32 years old and moved to Walter Lantz, Walter Lantz' friend, aided him in obtaining American citizenship at this time.
He created the Puppetoons series in the 1940s, earning him an honorary award in 1943 for "the invention of novel methods and techniques in the manufacture of short subjects known as Puppetoons." Pal then transitioned to live-action film-making with The Great Rupert (1950).
He is best known as the producer of several science-fiction and fantasy films in the 1950s and 1960s, including When Worlds Collide, four of which were collaborations with director Byron Haskin, including The War of the Worlds (1953). Tom Thumb (1958), The Time Machine (1960), and The Brothers Grimm (1962).