Jules Engel

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-03-11 (94 years old)

Deathday

2003-09-06

Place of Birth

Budapest, Austria – Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary)

Jules Engel

Biography

Jules Engel was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher. He was the founding director of the experimental animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.

Acting

1993

Abstract Cinema

as Himself

Production

1977

1978

Hors d’oeuvres

as Director

1968

Silence

as Director

1988

1960

Popeye's Service Station

as Background Designer

1978

Hors d’oeuvres

as Animation

1988

Candyjam

as Thanks

1992

Wormholes

as Thanks

1994

Greener

as Thanks

1995

1996

1999

MuM

as Thanks

2001

2001

Boobie Girl

as Thanks

2002

The Box Man

as Thanks

2004

The Pumpkin of Nyefar

as Visual Effects Design Consultant

1973

Accident

as Director

1974

Train Landscape

as Director

1994

The Meadow

as Director

1998

The Toy Shop

as Director

1950

Gerald McBoing-Boing

as Color Designer

1976

Rumble

as Director

1959

1956

1999

1971

Landscape

as Director

1978

Mobiles

as Director

1986

Play-Pen

as Director

1960

Barbecue for Two

as Color Designer

1999

Al Tudi Tuhak

as Thanks

1960

1954

How Now Boing Boing

as Color Designer

1963

Carnival

as Director

1957

1957

1963

Bahing

as Art Direction

1977

Wet Paint

as Director

1977

Wet Paint

as Animation

1959

Bwana Magoo

as Animation

1954

Ballet-Oop

as Color Designer

1955

The Rise of Duton Lang

as Color Designer

1963

Carnival

as Producer

1967

Centipede

as Director

1967

Centipede

as Producer

1975

Swan

as Director

1987

Interior

as Director

1987

Interior

as Animation

1987

Gallery 3

as Director

1987

Gallery 3

as Animation

1968

Silence

as Producer

1997

Aviary

as Director

1997

Aviary

as Animation

1970

Shinbone Alley

as Production Design

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