Gerald Potterton: Last News

The Beatles Yellow Submarine and the director of Heavy Metal has died. He was 91 years old.The death was confirmed by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in a statement to Pitchfork.In a statement, Claude Joli-Coeur, NFB chair and government film commissioner, said: “Gerald came to Canada and the NFB to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project.

Gerald Potterton, the British-Canadian filmmaker best known for his work on the adult animated classic Heavy Metal and The Beatles' Yellow Submarine, has died.The director, writer, producer and animator passed away at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec, according to the National Film Board of Canada.'With a heavy heart, we mourn the passing of long-time friend and collaborator Gerald Potterton (1931-2022),' the NFB, Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor, announced on Twitter on Wednesday.  'Join us in celebrating the life of the director behind Heavy Metal & The Railrodder by revisiting his #NFB filmography→ http://bit.ly/PottertonNFB w/ Buster Keaton, 1965.'  RIP: British-Canadian filmmaker Gerald Potterton passed away this week at the age of 91; he is pictured in 2016'Gerald came to Canada and the NFB to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project,' Claude Joli-Coeur, NFB chairperson and government film commissioner, said in a statement. He added, 'He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today's independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions…He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man.'  Potterton started creating animation for the NFB back in the 1950s, and then went on to direct his own classic short films, including two Academy Award-nominated productions: My Financial Career (1962) and Christmas Cracker (1963), which he co-directed with Norman McLaren, Jeff Hale and Grant Munro. He also directed live-action films like the comedy The Ride (1963) as well as the acclaimed late-career Buster Keaton short film The Railrodder (1965).   Making

EJ Panaligan editor Gerald Potterton, an animator and filmmaker whose most notable works include “Heavy Metal” and the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” film, died on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada announced on Wednesday. He was 91. He died at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec, where he lived for most of his life. His most prominent work was directing the 1981 animated cult classic “Heavy Metal,” an anthology film of different science fiction and fantasy stories surrounding a force that is described as “the sum of all evils.” He also worked as an animator on the Beatles’ 1968 musical comedy “Yellow Submarine,” which became lauded as a work that broadened the general population’s interest in animation.

Gerald Potterton, the London-born filmmaker and animator who directed the 1981 animated cult favorite Heavy Metal and contributed to the memorable “Liverpool” sequence in the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died today at a Quebec hospital. He was 91.

Guy Lodge Film CriticA bright, watery cornflower blue may lead the palette of “The Spine of Night,” an adult animated fantasy indebted in equal part to Ralph Bakshi and Gerald Potterton, but that doesn’t mean a lot of crimson blood isn’t spilled for contrast. Extreme, skeleton-snapping ultraviolence is a key selling point of this first collaboration between animator Morgan Galen King and filmmaker-comics writer Philip Gelatt.

Alternative radio mainstays Dreamers have teamed up with another familiar face at the format, Grandson, for a new rendition of their latest single "Heat Seeker" -- complete with a brand new video, which Billboard is exclusively premiering today (April 10).The trippy, disorienting animated clip, created by Andrew William Ralph, takes cues from both Pink Floyd's Pink Floyd -- The Wall music film and the Gerald Potterton-directed 1981 movie Heavy Metal."'Heat Seeker' is a song about searching for the truth, trying to find the right way through life," Dreamers frontman Nick Wold tells Billboard.