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Joy Batchelor

Joy Batchelor

Director

Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger. Together they created over 2000 shorts/films, and produced roughly 70 propaganda pieces during World War II for the British government. She helped co-write, write, animate, produce, and direct many of their productions. One of her projects as an art director was Cinerama Holiday (1955). Joy directed and wrote Ruddigore (1967), a television-film adaptation of W.S. Gilbert's opera of the same name, which became the first opera to be adapted into an animated film. She later worked in television, directing series, including animated shows like The Jackson 5ive (1971). Batchelor died on 14 May 1991, just two days after her 77th birthday.

Born: May 22, 1914 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Died: May 14, 1991 (Age 76)

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Joy Batchelor  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
8
ActressSelf (archive Photos)2018
Movie
7
DirectingProducer, Screenplay, Director1954
Movie
5.6
WritingWriter1961
Movie
7.3
DirectingDirector, Producer, Adaptation1967
Movie
5.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1945
Movie
DirectingDirector
Movie
DirectingDirector1966
Movie
ProductionProducer1953
Movie
DirectingDirector, Writer1949
Movie
DirectingDirector1941
Movie
ProductionProducer1953
TV Show
6.9
DirectingDirector, Producer
71 Episodes
1965-1965
Short Film
6.4
WritingWriter1963
Short Film
5.9
DirectingDirector1957
Short Film
6
WritingWriter1959
Short Film
6.7
WritingWriter, Producer1952
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1938
Short Film
6.1
DirectingDirector, Producer, Story1948
Short Film
5.8
DirectingDirector1947
Short Film
5.9
DirectingDirector, Producer1949
Short Film
WritingWriter1964
Short Film
6.5
DirectingDirector, Producer, Animation1945
Short Film
6.6
DirectingDirector, Producer, Animation, Writer, Art Designer1942
Short Film
6.7
ProductionProducer1948
Short Film
5.8
DirectingDirector1970
Short Film
5
DirectingDirector, Writer, Producer1949
Short Film
6.2
DirectingDirector, Story1948
Short Film
DirectingDirector, Producer1943
Short Film
5
DirectingDirector, Writer1948
Short Film
DirectingDirector1949
Short Film
5.5
DirectingDirector1942
Short Film
WritingStory1954
Short Film
DirectingDirector1941
Short Film
6.7
ProductionProducer1950
Short Film
6.9
CrewScript1967
Short Film
WritingStory1962
Short Film
4.4
DirectingDirector1944
Short Film
DirectingDirector1949
Short Film
DirectingDirector1943
Short Film
DirectingStory, Director1959
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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