John Halas

John Halas ( born April 16, 1912 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary; † 20 or January 21, 1995 in London, United Kingdom) was a British animator Hungarian origin.

János Halász was born as the seventh son of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. The father of the comic artist Paul Halas had access to an education in Budapest and at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts. He was a student of experts for special effects and director George Pal. First he founded in 1932 together with Gyula Macskássy a film studio, but was denied the economic success. Together with his wife Joy Batchelor died in 1991, whom he met after his move to London in 1936 took place, he led the UK's largest, in 1940, founded animation studio Halas and Batchelor Animation Ltd.. and was responsible for approximately 2000 animated film productions. Halas was, among other signatories of the animated film The Animal Farm from 1954. His film company also produced in 1982 the first fully digital animated film called dilemma. Other successful works was the 1952 film shot The Owl and the Pussycat (The Owl and the Pussycat ) and the film motorway from the year 1979. Halas also appeared as an author in appearance. From his pen, for example, the works of The Technique of Film Animation (1959 ), Computer Animation (1974) and the Graphics come in Motion ( 1981).

In 1972 he was awarded by Queen Elizabeth II because of his services to the British film industry a high decoration. As President of the Association internationale du film d'animation ( Asifa ), whose founding member he was, he was in charge from 1975 for ten years the fortunes of the Association and finally this was from 1985 to 1995 as honorary president before. From 1980 to 1995 he was also the chair of the British Federation of Film Societies ( BFFS ) holds. Also as a consultant to the United Nations, he worked. Halas died at the age of 82 years depending on the source location on the 20th or 21st January 1995.