🎬 Director
Norman McLaren
🎂 Born 11 April 1914 (age 72)✝ 27 February 1987📍 Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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Popularity Score
11
Acting Credits
58
Directed
Norman McLaren, CC, CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival Rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.
Known For
Directed Films(58)
★ 6.6
Pas de Deux
1968
Director
★ 7.6
Neighbours
1952
Director
★ 6.9
A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting
1946
Director
★ 6.2
Canon
1964
Director
★ 6.8
A Chairy Tale
1957
Director
★ 5.7
Narcissus
1983
Director
★ 6.4
Blinkity Blank
1955
Director
★ 6.2
A Phantasy
1952
Director
★ 5.9
Spook Sport
1940
Director
★ 6.9
Begone Dull Care
1949
Director
★ 6.5
Around Is Around
1951
Director
★ 6.1
Dots
1940
Director
★ 6.0
Now Is the Time
1951
Director
★ 5.9
Stars and Stripes
1939
Director
★ 5.5
Mosaic
1965
Director
★ 7.0
Opening Speech
1969
Director
★ 5.8
Alouette
1944
Director
★ 6.8
Synchromy
1971
Director
Pas de deux 5
1950
Director
★ 6.5
Keep Your Mouth Shut
1944
Director
★ 7.1
Ballet Adagio
1972
Director
★ 6.4
Lines: Horizontal
1962
Director
★ 3.0
Six and Seven-Eighths
2003
Director
★ 6.2
Pinscreen
1973
Director
★ 5.8
News for the Navy
1937
Director
★ 6.1
Pen Point Percussion
1951
Director
★ 6.1
Boogie-Doodle
1941
Director
★ 6.1
Love on the Wing
1939
Director
★ 5.7
5 for 4
1942
Director
McLaren Homemovie
1936
Director
★ 2.0
The Flicker Film
1961
Director
★ 7.1
Christmas Cracker
1963
Director
Doors
1959
Director
★ 6.1
Loops
1940
Director
★ 6.4
Hen Hop
1942
Director
★ 6.3
Blackbird
1958
Director
★ 4.3
Mail Early for Christmas
1959
Director
★ 9.0
Chants populaires nº 6
1946
Director
The Seasons
1950
Director
★ 7.0
Chants populaires nº 5
1943
Director
★ 5.5
Fiddle De-Dee
1947
Director
★ 5.7
Polychrome Fantasy
1935
Director
★ 5.7
Rock the Boat
1944
Director
★ 6.2
Short and Suite
1959
Director
Surrealistic Hand Drawing
2006
Director
Chaplin Test
2006
Director
A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949
1949
Director
★ 5.5
The Obedient Flame
1939
Director
Leapfrog
1949
Director
★ 5.3
Dollar Dance
1943
Director
★ 5.0
V for Victory
1941
Director
★ 5.3
Mony a Pickle
1938
Director
New York Lightboard
1961
Director
The Hypnosis Film
2006
Director
Colour Flicker
1948
Director
★ 6.0
Hell Unltd
1936
Director
McLaren in Ottawa
1949
Director
Barrel Zoom
1943
Director