Director Gerald Potterton, who directed the cult animation “Heavy Metal” (1981), died on Tuesday (23/8) in a hospital in Quebec, Canada at the age of 91.
Born March 8, 1931 in London, Potterton graduated from Hammersmith Art School and emigrated to Canada in 1954 to work alongside Canadian animation pioneers.
“Gerald came to Canada to be part of a new and irreverent wave of storytelling and brought a lot of intelligence and creativity into each project. He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions … He was a great artist and a very nice man, “said Claude Joli-Coeur, president of the National Film Board of Canada and the government’s film secretary.
Potterman worked on animated shorts with Norman McLaren, Jeff Hale and Grant Munro, which were nominated for an Oscar in the category in the early 1960s, returning to England in 1968 to work on a sequel to the Beatles animated film. , “Yellow Submarine”. (yellow submarine).
Upon returning to Canada, he founded his independent studio, Potterton Productions, to develop film and television projects, including his adaptation of Oscar Wilde, “The Selfish Giant” (1972), an animated short that earned him his third nomination. the Oscars.
He also made live films, including a short with comedian Buster Keaton and the film “The Rainbow Boys”, a comedy with Donald Pleasence, before taking over the film based on the adult comic “Heavy Metal”.
Filled with sex, drug and rock’n’roll scenes, as well as robots, spaceships, aliens, half-naked warriors and sword-wielding barbarians, adult fantasy has become a cult. But the highlight of his career was also his latest feature film.
After “Heavy Metal”, he created the children’s animated series “The Smoggies”, which ran for four years until 1990.
A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Potterman was selected at the Celebration of World Animation in 1998 as one of the “Ten Men Who Rocked the Animation World”.
Source: Terra
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