{{Short description|Canadian animator}} '''John Weldon''' (born May 11, 1945) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[actor]], [[composer]], [[animator]] and [[movie director]], known for his [[National Film Board of Canada]] (NFB) [[animated short]]s.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-weldon The Canadian Encyclopedia]</ref>
Born in [[Belleville, Ontario|Belleville]], [[Ontario]], Weldon lives in [[Montreal]], Quebec. Following his retirement from the NFB, Weldon has devoted his time to songwriting and comic books, including a planned comic book series, ''Ashcan Alley''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lenburg|first=Jeff|title=Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators|publisher=Applause Books|isbn=978-1557836717|pages=352–3|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVShFCjVzvIC&q=Special+Delivery+weldon&pg=PA353|accessdate=31 July 2012|chapter=Weldon, John|date=1 June 2006}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''What Do You Do?'' (1976, [[animator]]) * ''[[Spinnolio]]'' (1977) * ''No Apple For Johnny'' (1977; written, animated and directed) * ''[[Special Delivery (1978 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1978; cowritten and directed with [[Eunice Macaulay]]) * ''[[The Log Driver's Waltz]]'' (1979) * ''Emergency Numbers'' (1984) * ''Real Inside'' (1984) * ''Of Dice and Men'' (1988) * ''[[To Be (1990 film)|To Be]]'' (1990) * ''[[The Lump]]'' (1991) * ''Scant Sanity'' (1996) * ''[[Frank the Wrabbit]]'' (1998) * ''[[The Hungry Squid]]'' (2001) * ''Yo'' (2003) * ''[[Noël Noël]]'' (2003) (script) * ''Home Security'' (2004)
==Awards== * [[Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film]] for ''Special Delivery'' in 1979.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVR827pnGSs Robby Benson and Carol Lynley present Short Film Oscars®-Oscars on YouTube]</ref><ref>[https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 1979|Oscars.org]</ref> * Nominated for a [[Golden Palm]] for ''Best Short Film'' for ''To Be'', in 1990.<ref>[https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/to-be TO BE-Festival de Cannes]</ref>
== See also == *[[Cordell Barker]]-similar in content *[[Richard Condie]]-similar in content *[[Cinema of Canada]]
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==External links== * [http://www.weldonalley.ca/ John Weldon's Web Site] * [https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/john-weldon Watch John Weldon's films at NFB.ca] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070912074638/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=2860&navid=46 John Weldon] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630084745/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/ The Film Reference Library]. Retrieved on July 8, 2007. * {{IMDb name|0919732}}
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