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Joy Batchelor
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English animator, director and producer (1914-1991)
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Moving Image
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Film & TV
Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Secrets of British Animation — Self (archive Photos)2018
- Ode to Joy2014
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Watford
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- John Halas
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Work location
- United Kingdom
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- date of birth
- 1914-05-22
- date of death
- 1991-05-14
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1937-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Eye Filmmuseum
- name in native language
- Joy Batchelor
- floruit
- 1970-00-00
- partner in business or sport
- John Halas
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