Barrie Nelson obit

Barrie Nelson Has Died

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Barrie Nelson (1933-2021) was a Canadian animator.

Nelson animated for productions from Jay Ward Productions (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends and George of the Jungle), Hubley Studio (Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature, A Windy Day and A Doonesbury Special) and Peanuts features (namely A Boy Named Charlie Brown and This Is America, Charlie Brown).

Nelson's other credentials include Puff the Magic Dragon and Cathy specials, as well as Watership Down, the "B-17" segment of Heavy Metal (which he directed), The Plague Dogs and Mrs. Doubtfire.

Nelson worked on two 1980 shorts: Open Wednesday (featuring June Foray) and Carlton Your Doorman (starring Lorenzo Music)..

A native of Winnipeg, he studied fine art at the University of Manitoba. He worked for Canadian animation studios for a number of years before moving to Hollywood, where he joined John Hubley's studio and was one of the animators of the Academy Award-winning A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature. He had a number of other animation credits, both with Hubley and on various animated television series, before making Propaganda Message for the National Film Board of Canada in 1971; the film won a gold award at the first USA International Animation Film Festival in New York City in 1972.

Nelson also worked on the 1978 animated adaptation of Watership Down and the 1990 TV special Garfield's Feline Fantasies.

Nelson also later made the short film Ten: The Magic Number, about the adoption of the metric system in Canada, for the NFB. In the United States he continued to work on animated films and television series, and made at least four short films that were submitted for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film consideration: Keep Cool (1971), Twins (1974), Opens Wednesday (1980), and You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks (1984).

Nelson died in Haiku, Hawaii on September 29, 2021, at the age of 88.

Director

You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Short

Director

1984

 

Heavy Metal (1981)

Heavy Metal

6.6

Director (segment "B-17")

1981

 

Opens Wednesday

Short

Director

1980

 

Oh Canada

Short

Director

1978

 

Twins

Short

Director

1974

 

Propaganda Message (1974)

Propaganda Message

7.2

Short

Director

1974

 

Ten: The Magic Number (1973)

Ten: The Magic Number

Short

Director

1973

 

Writer

Opens Wednesday

Short

Writer

1980

 

Twins

Short

written by

1974

 

Producer

Twins

Short

producer

1974

 

Art Department

You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Short

designer

1984

 

Opens Wednesday

Short

designer

1980

 

Propaganda Message (1974)

Propaganda Message

7.2

Short

designer

1974

 

Ten: The Magic Number (1973)

Ten: The Magic Number

Short

designer

1973

 

Animation Department

Snoopy's Campfire Stories (1996)

Snoopy's Campfire Stories

7.0

Video Game

animator

1996

 

Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! (1995)

Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown!

Video Game

animator

1995

 

Gregg Berger and Lorenzo Music in Garfield and Friends (1988)

Garfield and Friends

7.2

TV Series

animator

1994

2 episodes

 

Robin Williams, Sally Field, Lisa Jakub, Matthew Lawrence, and Mara Wilson in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Mrs. Doubtfire

7.1

animator (as Barry Nelson)

1993

 

The Music Machine: An Adventure in Agapeland

Video

animator

1990

 

Garfield Specials (1982)

Garfield Specials

7.7

TV Mini Series

key animator

animator

1984–1990

3 episodes

 

Garfield's Feline Fantasies (1990)

Garfield's Feline Fantasies

7.5

TV Short

key animator

1990

 

Cathy's Valentine (1989)

Cathy's Valentine

6.5

TV Movie

animator

1989

 

Cathy's Last Resort (1988)

Cathy's Last Resort

6.9

TV Movie

animator

1988

 

This Is America, Charlie Brown (1988)

This Is America, Charlie Brown

7.4

TV Series

animator

1988

3 episodes

 

Lorenzo Music in Garfield in Paradise (1986)

Garfield in Paradise

7.1

TV Short

animator

1986

 

Lorenzo Music in Garfield in the Rough (1984)

Garfield in the Rough

7.6

TV Short

animator

1984

 

You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Short

animator

1984

 

The Plague Dogs (1982)

The Plague Dogs

7.7

senior animator

1982

 

Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody (1982)

Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody

7.5

TV Movie

animator

1982

 

Heavy Metal (1981)

Heavy Metal

6.6

sequence director (segment "B-17")

1981

 

Opens Wednesday

Short

animator

1980

 

Carlton Your Doorman (1980)

Carlton Your Doorman

7.2

TV Movie

animator

1980

 

Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies (1979)

Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies

7.5

TV Movie

animator

1979

 

Nate the Great Goes Undercover

Short

animator

1978

 

Oh Canada

Short

animator

1978

 

Watership Down (1978)

Watership Down

7.6

animator

1978

 

A Doonesbury Special (1977)

A Doonesbury Special

6.4

Short

animator

1977

 

Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976)

Everybody Rides the Carousel

6.5

animator

1976

 

WOW Women of the World

6.2

Short

animator (as Barry Nelson)

1975

 

Twins

Short

animator

1974

 

Propaganda Message (1974)

Propaganda Message

7.2

Short

animator

1974

 

Ten: The Magic Number (1973)

Ten: The Magic Number

Short

animator

1973

 

Shinbone Alley (1970)

Shinbone Alley

5.5

animator

1970

 

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

7.3

animator (as Barry Nelson)

1969

 

The Night Before Christmas (1968)

The Night Before Christmas

6.8

TV Movie

animator

1968

 

Windy Day (1968)

Windy Day

6.6

Short

animator

1968

 

Bill Scott in George of the Jungle (1967)

George of the Jungle

6.7

TV Series

animator

1967

17 episodes

 

Super Chicken (1967)

Super Chicken

7.5

TV Series

animator

1967

17 episodes

 

Tom Slick (1967)

Tom Slick

7.2

TV Series

animator

1967

17 episodes

 

A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966)

A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature

5.4

Short

animator

1966

 

Return to Oz (1964)

Return to Oz

5.4

TV Movie

animator

1964

 

Fractured Fairy Tales (1959)

Fractured Fairy Tales

8.2

TV Series

animator (uncredited)

1959–1961

2 episodes

 

The Dudley Do-Right Show (1969)

The Dudley Do-Right Show

6.7

TV Series

animator (uncredited)

1959

1 episode

 

Animal Farm (1954)

Animal Farm

7.2

animator (uncredited)

1954