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Gerald Potterton is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Editor and Sequence Supervisor born on 8 march 1931

Gerald Potterton

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Birth 8 march 1931 (93 years)

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

Potterton has been 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.

Best films

Heavy Metal (1981)
(Director)

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Filmography of Gerald Potterton (6 films)

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Actor

Buster Keaton Rides Again, 55minutes
Directed by Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about television, Transport films, Rail transport films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about technology, Documentary films about films
Actors Buster Keaton, Gerald Potterton
Roles Himself (director of 'The Railrodder')
Rating72% 3.6319453.6319453.6319453.6319453.631945
Avec Buster Keaton est un documentaire de 1965 sur le tournage du film The Railrodder (avec Buster Keaton), également tourné en 1965. Bien qu'il ne s'agisse que d'un documentaire de production, ce film est en fait plus long que The Railrodder, qui ne dure que 24 minutes. Les deux films ont été produits par l'Office national du film du Canada. Avec Buster Keaton montre des extraits de précédents films de Keaton, Butcher Boy (1917), The frozen north (1922), Seven Chances (1925), et le mécano de la Générale (1927). Le film a été réalisé par John Spotton et narré par Michael Kane.

Director

The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You, 30minutes
Directed by Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Themes Musical films
Actors Edward Asnere, Roger Daltrey, Sonja Ball, A. J. Henderson, Judi Richards
Rating76% 3.812763.812763.812763.812763.81276
The story involves neglected child Olivia, whose only friends are Charlie the Horse and Barnaby the Stablehand. Olivia wants her own special birthday song, but her evil caretaker tries to keep her from hearing it.
Heavy Metal, 1h30
Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, Pino Van Lamsweerde
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Harvey Atkin, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy
Rating65% 3.29883.29883.29883.29883.2988
The movie's title sequence story (based on the original story by Dan O'Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth. The bay doors (on the belly of the shuttle) open, releasing a 1960 Corvette. An astronaut seated in the Corvette then begins descending through Earth's atmosphere, landing in a desert canyon.
Buster Keaton Rides Again, 55minutes
Directed by Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about television, Transport films, Rail transport films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about technology, Documentary films about films
Actors Buster Keaton, Gerald Potterton
Rating72% 3.6319453.6319453.6319453.6319453.631945
Avec Buster Keaton est un documentaire de 1965 sur le tournage du film The Railrodder (avec Buster Keaton), également tourné en 1965. Bien qu'il ne s'agisse que d'un documentaire de production, ce film est en fait plus long que The Railrodder, qui ne dure que 24 minutes. Les deux films ont été produits par l'Office national du film du Canada. Avec Buster Keaton montre des extraits de précédents films de Keaton, Butcher Boy (1917), The frozen north (1922), Seven Chances (1925), et le mécano de la Générale (1927). Le film a été réalisé par John Spotton et narré par Michael Kane.
The Railrodder, 25minutes
Directed by Buster Keaton, Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Buster Keaton
Rating69% 3.492333.492333.492333.492333.49233
The film begins with Keaton, playing an unnamed English gentleman, reading a newspaper in London, England. A full-page ad proclaiming "SEE CANADA NOW!" catches his attention. He promptly throws the newspaper away and jumps into the Thames. He subsequently reemerges on the east coast of Canada (at Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia), having apparently swum across the Atlantic, where he is greeted by a sign indicating the direction to the other side of Canada, 3,982½ miles away.

Scriptwriter

The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You, 30minutes
Directed by Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Themes Musical films
Actors Edward Asnere, Roger Daltrey, Sonja Ball, A. J. Henderson, Judi Richards
Rating76% 3.812763.812763.812763.812763.81276
The story involves neglected child Olivia, whose only friends are Charlie the Horse and Barnaby the Stablehand. Olivia wants her own special birthday song, but her evil caretaker tries to keep her from hearing it.
The Railrodder, 25minutes
Directed by Buster Keaton, Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Buster Keaton
Roles Writer
Rating69% 3.492333.492333.492333.492333.49233
The film begins with Keaton, playing an unnamed English gentleman, reading a newspaper in London, England. A full-page ad proclaiming "SEE CANADA NOW!" catches his attention. He promptly throws the newspaper away and jumps into the Thames. He subsequently reemerges on the east coast of Canada (at Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia), having apparently swum across the Atlantic, where he is greeted by a sign indicating the direction to the other side of Canada, 3,982½ miles away.

Editor

The Railrodder, 25minutes
Directed by Buster Keaton, Gerald Potterton
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Buster Keaton
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.492333.492333.492333.492333.49233
The film begins with Keaton, playing an unnamed English gentleman, reading a newspaper in London, England. A full-page ad proclaiming "SEE CANADA NOW!" catches his attention. He promptly throws the newspaper away and jumps into the Thames. He subsequently reemerges on the east coast of Canada (at Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia), having apparently swum across the Atlantic, where he is greeted by a sign indicating the direction to the other side of Canada, 3,982½ miles away.

Team

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, 1h25
Directed by Richard Williams
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Jeu, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Pirate films, Musical films, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Didi Conn, Mark Linn-Baker, Mason Adams, Allen Swift, George S. Irving, Arnold Stang
Roles Sequence Supervisor
Rating66% 3.344543.344543.344543.344543.34454
In 1974, Raggedy Ann is the beloved doll of Marcella, along with her brother Raggedy Andy and a whole nursery full of colorful toys. Whenever Marcella leaves the room, the dolls come to life. On Marcella's seventh birthday, a new doll named Babette, arrives from Paris, France to New Hampshire. Babette is a spoiled girl who is unaware she is a doll, but the friendly Raggedy Ann does everything she can to make Babette feel at home. Soon, however, the Captain Contagious, who lives in Marcella's snow globe, becomes smitten with Babette and kidnaps her. Raggedy Ann and Andy set off to try to rescue her before Marcella discovers Babette is gone. Out in the world outside the nursery, the two meet the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, a blue toy camel who has been cast off by past owners and is now heartbroken and lonely. Raggedy Ann assures him a home with Marcella, and he joins their rescue party.