PB
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Animator
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Male
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Birth:
13 March 1961(United Kingdom, United Kingdom)
Death:
26 June 2001(Manchester, United Kingdom)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Paul Thomas Berry (13 March 1961 – 26 June 2001) was a stop-motion animator who first worked on Cosgrove Hall's Wind In The Willows before directing the 1991 Oscar-nominatedshort horror stop-motion animation film The Sandman.In 1992 the film was awarded the Craft Prize for Best Animation at Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Career
Other projects Paul Berry worked on included The Nightmare Before Christmas (animator), James and the Giant Peach (animation supervisor), Monkeybone (supervising animator)and the music video for Primus' cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Death
On 26 June 2001 Berry died of a brain tumour. He had stayed strong for several months prior to his death. He was 40 years old.