Harrie Geelen
| Harrie Geelen | |
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 Harrie Geelen | |
| Born | 10 January 1939 (age 77) |
| Occupation | Writer (for children and for adults), animator, illustrator, scriptwriter for film and television, composer, director, Also: creative director, animator and scriptwriter for 34 years at Toonder Studio's. |
Harrie Geelen (Heerlen, 10 January 1939) is Dutch illustrator, film director, animator, translator, writer and poet. Decorated to knight ("Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw") 2014
He studied Dutch in Amsterdam, where he met his wife Imme Dros, like himself a writer of Dutch children's literature. Geelen wrote several well known television programs, for children] and translated Disney films into Dutch. He illustrated his own books qand those of his wife Imme Dros some books by Annie M. G. Schmidt and a book of Toon Tellegen. He published a novel (Het nijlpaard Ellende) and short stories (ooms en tantes, tantes en ooms) (van Oorschot); He was the director and designer and scriptwriter of "Pinkeltje", and made some featurefilms and a large TV series (de Sommeltjes) with the use of simple computers. A lot of his children books are published by Querido. Some books are published in Japan, Sweden, and France,.The animated documentray about addiction "getekende mensen" won a golden Calf. Many documentaries made by him at Toonder Studio's won prizes in Ne Work and Paris,
- 1968 t/m 1972 - Oebele; dialogue and songs His wife Imme Dros attributed short stories which Geelen visualised using drawings of children
- 1972 t/m 1976 - Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer?; scenario and songs
- 1974 and 1976 - Q & Q; scenario
- 1981 Pinkeltje - script direction and technical planning
- 1983 - Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel; director of soundtrack and co-scenarist
- 2002 - Sommeltjes Scripts design animation direction (VPRO)"1996 Carmen & IK - Script songs animation, design and direction (NPS)
- 2003 Annetje Lie in het holst van de nacht - story adapted from the novel of Imme Dros. Script songs animation, design and direction (VPRO
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