# John Weldon (animator)

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Canadian animator

**John Weldon** (born May 11, 1945) is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) [actor](/source/Actor), [composer](/source/Composer), [animator](/source/Animator) and [movie director](/source/Movie_director), known for his [National Film Board of Canada](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada) (NFB) [animated shorts](/source/Animated_short).[1]

Born in [Belleville](/source/Belleville%2C_Ontario), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), Weldon lives in [Montreal](/source/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*.[2]

## Filmography

- *What Do You Do?* (1976, [animator](/source/Animator))

- *[Spinnolio](/source/Spinnolio)* (1977)

- *No Apple For Johnny* (1977; written, animated and directed)

- *[Special Delivery](/source/Special_Delivery_(1978_film))* (1978; cowritten and directed with [Eunice Macaulay](/source/Eunice_Macaulay))

- *[The Log Driver's Waltz](/source/The_Log_Driver's_Waltz)* (1979)

- *Emergency Numbers* (1984)

- *Real Inside* (1984)

- *Of Dice and Men* (1988)

- *[To Be](/source/To_Be_(1990_film))* (1990)

- *[The Lump](/source/The_Lump)* (1991)

- *Scant Sanity* (1996)

- *[Frank the Wrabbit](/source/Frank_the_Wrabbit)* (1998)

- *[The Hungry Squid](/source/The_Hungry_Squid)* (2001)

- *Yo* (2003)

- *[Noël Noël](/source/No%C3%ABl_No%C3%ABl)* (2003) (script)

- *Home Security* (2004)

## Awards

- [Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film](/source/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Short_Film) for *Special Delivery* in 1979.[3][4]

- Nominated for a [Golden Palm](/source/Golden_Palm) for *Best Short Film* for *To Be*, in 1990.[5]

## See also

- [Cordell Barker](/source/Cordell_Barker)-similar in content

- [Richard Condie](/source/Richard_Condie)-similar in content

- [Cinema of Canada](/source/Cinema_of_Canada)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [The Canadian Encyclopedia](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-weldon)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Lenburg, Jeff (1 June 2006). ["Weldon, John"](https://books.google.com/books?id=FVShFCjVzvIC&q=Special+Delivery+weldon&pg=PA353). *Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators*. Applause Books. pp. 352–3. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1557836717](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1557836717). Retrieved 31 July 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Robby Benson and Carol Lynley present Short Film Oscars®-Oscars on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVR827pnGSs)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [1979|Oscars.org](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [TO BE-Festival de Cannes](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/to-be)

## External links

- [John Weldon's Web Site](http://www.weldonalley.ca/)

- [Watch John Weldon's films at NFB.ca](https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/john-weldon)

- [John Weldon](https://web.archive.org/web/20070912074638/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=2860&navid=46) at [The Film Reference Library](https://web.archive.org/web/20070630084745/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/). Retrieved on July 8, 2007.

- [John Weldon](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919732/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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