George Pal

Common card · No. 272557

George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak, Hungarian: [ˈmɒrt͡sint͡ʃɒk ˈɟørɟ ˈpɑːl]; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer. He is known for his stop motion animated film series Puppetoons and his fantasy and science-fiction films. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe. He was nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best Short Subjects, Cartoon) for seven consecutive years (1942–1948) and received an honorary award in 1944. This makes him the second-most nominated Hungarian exile (together with William S. Darling and Ernest Laszlo) after Miklós Rózsa. Pal was coauthor with screenwriter Joe Morhaim on the science-fiction novel Time Machine II, published in 1981 as a sequel to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Alan Light, CC BY 2.0