Known For
Directing
Known Credits
24
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 11, 1914 (112 years old)
Place of Birth
Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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.
| 2006 | McLaren at Play...Director | |
| 2006 | Out-of-Focus Cloudscape...Director | |
| 2006 | Blurr Test...Director | |
| 2006 | The Seasons...Director | |
| 2006 | Little Negro...Director | |
| 2006 | Chaplin Test...Director | |
| 2006 | Surrealistic Hand Drawing...Director | |
| 2006 | Pen Drawings...Director | |
| 2006 | The Hypnosis Film...Director | |
| 2006 | Birdlings...Director | |
| 2003 | Six and Seven-Eighths...Director | |
| 2003 | On the Farm...Director | |
| 1983 | Narcissus...Director | |
| 1978 | Animated Motion: Part 5...Director | |
| 1977 | Animated Motion: Part 2...Director | |
| 1977 | Animated Motion: Part 3...Director | |
| 1977 | Animated Motion: Part 4...Director | |
| 1976 | Animated Motion: Part 1...Director | |
| 1973 | Pinscreen...Director | |
| 1972 | Ballet Adagio...Director | |
| 1971 | Synchromy...Director | |
| 1969 | Opening Speech...Director | |
| 1969 | Spheres...Director | |
| 1968 | Pas de Deux...Director | |
| 1965 | Mosaic...Director | |
| 1964 | Canon...Director | |
| 1963 | Seven Surprizes...Director | |
| 1963 | Christmas Cracker...Director | |
| 1962 | Lines: Horizontal...Director | |
| 1961 | The Flicker Film...Director | |
| 1961 | New York Lightboard...Director | |
| 1961 | New York Lightboard Record...Director | |
| 1960 | Lines: Vertical...Director | |
| 1960 | Test A for Synchromy...Director | |
| 1960 | Test B For Synchromy...Director | |
| 1959 | Doors...Director | |
| 1959 | Serenal...Director | |
| 1959 | Short and Suite...Director | |
| 1959 | Mail Early for Christmas...Director | |
| 1958 | Blackbird...Director | |
| 1957 | A Chairy Tale...Director | |
| 1956 | Rythmetic...Director | |
| 1955 | Blinkity Blank...Director | |
| 1953 | Two Bagatelles...Director | |
| 1952 | A Phantasy...Director | |
| 1952 | Neighbours...Director | |
| 1951 | Now Is the Time...Director | |
| 1951 | Pen Point Percussion...Director | |
| 1951 | Around Is Around...Director | |
| 1950 | The Corridor...Director | |
| 1950 | Pas de deux 5...Director | |
| 1950 | The Seasons...Director | |
| 1949 | Begone Dull Care...Director | |
| 1949 | A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949...Director | |
| 1949 | Leapfrog...Director | |
| 1949 | McLaren in Ottawa...Director | |
| 1948 | Colour Flicker...Director | |
| 1948 | Dots and Loops...Director | |
| 1947 | La poulette grise...Director | |
| 1947 | Fiddle De-Dee...Director | |
| 1946 | Chants populaires nº 6...Director | |
| 1946 | Up There in the Mountains...Director | |
| 1946 | Hoppity Pop...Director | |
| 1946 | A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting...Director | |
| 1944 | Rock the Boat...Director | |
| 1944 | The Head Test...Director | |
| 1944 | Alouette...Director | |
| 1944 | Keep Your Mouth Shut...Director | |
| 1943 | Chants populaires nº 5...Director | |
| 1943 | Snakes...Director | |
| 1943 | Barrel Zoom...Director | |
| 1943 | Dollar Dance...Director | |
| 1942 | Hen Hop...Director | |
| 1942 | 5 for 4...Director | |
| 1941 | Boogie-Doodle...Director | |
| 1941 | Mail Early...Director | |
| 1941 | V for Victory...Director | |
| 1940 | Loops...Director | |
| 1940 | NBC Valentine Greeting...Director | |
| 1940 | Spook Sport...Director | |
| 1940 | Dots...Director | |
| 1939 | Stars and Stripes...Director | |
| 1939 | Scherzo...Director | |
| 1939 | Allegro...Director | |
| 1939 | Love on the Wing...Director | |
| 1939 | The Obedient Flame...Director | |
| 1938 | Mony a Pickle...Director | |
| 1937 | News for the Navy...Director | |
| 1937 | Book Bargain...Director | |
| 1936 | Hell Unltd...Director | |
| 1936 | McLaren Homemovie...Director | |
| 1935 | Camera Makes Whoopee...Director | |
| 1935 | Polychrome Fantasy...Director | |
| 1933 | 7 Till 5: A Pattern of the Day's Doings...Director |
| 1990 | Creative Process: Norman McLaren...Original Music Composer | |
| 1967 | Korean Alphabet...Music | |
| 1965 | Mosaic...Music | |
| 1953 | Two Bagatelles...Music | |
| 1952 | Neighbours...Music | |
| 1951 | Now Is the Time...Sound Designer |
| 1972 | Ballet Adagio...Producer | |
| 1969 | Spheres...Producer | |
| 1965 | Mosaic...Producer | |
| 1962 | Lines: Horizontal...Producer | |
| 1961 | New York Lightboard Record...Producer | |
| 1960 | Lines: Vertical...Producer | |
| 1959 | Mail Early for Christmas...Producer | |
| 1955 | Blinkity Blank...Producer | |
| 1952 | A Phantasy...Producer | |
| 1952 | Neighbours...Producer | |
| 1952 | Twirligig...Producer | |
| 1951 | Now Is the Time...Producer | |
| 1951 | Pen Point Percussion...Producer | |
| 1946 | Hoppity Pop...Producer | |
| 1944 | Rock the Boat...Producer | |
| 1944 | A Rainy Day...Producer | |
| 1942 | Hen Hop...Producer | |
| 1942 | 5 for 4...Producer | |
| 1941 | Boogie-Doodle...Producer | |
| 1941 | Mail Early...Producer | |
| 1941 | V for Victory...Producer | |
| 1940 | Loops...Producer | |
| 1940 | Spook Sport...Producer | |
| 1940 | Dots...Producer | |
| 1939 | Scherzo...Producer | |
| 1935 | Camera Makes Whoopee...Producer |
| 1972 | Ballet Adagio...Animation | |
| 1969 | Spheres...Animation | |
| 1965 | Mosaic...Animation | |
| 1962 | Lines: Horizontal...Animation | |
| 1960 | Lines: Vertical...Animation | |
| 1959 | Mail Early for Christmas...Animation | |
| 1955 | Blinkity Blank...Animation | |
| 1952 | A Phantasy...Animation | |
| 1952 | Neighbours...Animation | |
| 1951 | Now Is the Time...Animation Director | |
| 1951 | Around Is Around...Animation Director | |
| 1949 | Begone Dull Care...Animation | |
| 1947 | Fiddle De-Dee...Animation | |
| 1946 | Hoppity Pop...Animation | |
| 1942 | Hen Hop...Animation | |
| 1942 | 5 for 4...Animation | |
| 1941 | Boogie-Doodle...Animation | |
| 1941 | Mail Early...Animation | |
| 1941 | V for Victory...Animation | |
| 1940 | Loops...Animation | |
| 1940 | Dots...Animation |
| 1969 | Opening Speech...Writer | |
| 1955 | Blinkity Blank...Writer | |
| 1952 | Neighbours...Writer | |
| 1935 | Camera Makes Whoopee...Writer |
| 1949 | Begone Dull Care...Editor | |
| 1937 | A Job in a Million...Editor | |
| 1935 | Camera Makes Whoopee...Editor |
| 1936 | Defence of Madrid...Cinematography |
| 2024 | Daedalusas sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren | |
| 2009 | Jacques Drouin: In Reliefas Archive Footage | |
| 2006 | Blurr Testas | |
| 2006 | Tanguy Landscape Testas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2006 | Beginningsas | |
| 2006 | McLaren and Spaceas | |
| 2006 | Painting with Lightas | |
| 2006 | The Art of Motionas | |
| 2006 | Birdlingsas | |
| 2006 | Evelyn Lambartas | |
| 2005 | War and Peaceas Self | |
| 2003 | On the Farmas | |
| 1990 | Creative Process: Norman McLarenas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1985 | Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Shortas | |
| 1983 | McLaren on McLarenas Self | |
| 1973 | Griersonas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1973 | Pinscreenas | |
| 1973 | Tour en l'airas Self | |
| 1972 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLarenas Self | |
| 1970 | The Eye Hears, the Ear Seesas Self | |
| 1969 | Opening Speechas Self | |
| 1965 | Mosaicas | |
| 1961 | New York Lightboard Recordas Self - Seen with Man in Hat | |
| 1951 | Pen Point Percussionas Self |
