Raoul Servais
Raoul Servais (lang; 1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist.
Raoul Servais
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- Name
- Raoul Servais
- Born
- 1 May 1928
- Birthplace
- Ostend, Belgium
- Died
- 17 March 2023
- Place of death
- Leffinge, Belgium
- Occupation
- Filmmaker, animator, comics artist
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Known for
- Taxandria · Harpya · Nocturnal Butterflies · Atraksion · Siren
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• Name — Raoul Servais • Birth Name — Raoul Servais • Born — 1 May 1928 • Birthplace — Ostend, Belgium • Died — 17 March 2023 • Place of death — Leffinge, Belgium • Occupation — Filmmaker, animator, comics artist
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Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a director and screenwriter. The birth of Raoul Servais is recorded on 1 May 1928 in Ostende, and the death on 17 March 2023 in Middelkerke.
Biography
Biography
Servais was born in Ostend, Belgium, to parents of Walloon origin. He was the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). Servais is best known for the 1979 animated film Harpya, for which he won a Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb in 2016. At the 9th Magritte Awards, he received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux. In total, Servais won about 60 film prizes. Homages with retrospectives were organized in Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and St Petersburg. Servais died at his home in Leffinge on 17 March 2023, at the age of 94.
Filmography
Filmography
• 1960: Harbour Lights (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent) • 1963: The False Note (film • 1966: Chromophobia (1966 film) • 1968: Siren • 1969: Goldframe • 1970: To Speak or Not to Speak • 1971: Operation X-70 • 1973: Pegasus • 1976: Halewyn's Song • 1979: Harpya (Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival) • 1994: Taxandria (Diploma of Merit at the 4th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival • 1998: Nocturnal Butterflies • 2001: Atraksion • 2005: Winter Days (3' sequence) • 2016: Tank
Identity
Identity
Raoul Servais is recorded as film director, animator, university teacher and comics artist.
The Belgian filmmaker Raoul Servais standing in front of one of his paintings
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Life and career
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Life and career
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1928
Raoul Servais was born in 1928.
2023
Raoul Servais died at Leffinge.
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Recognition and collections
Raoul Servais received Golden Mira, Short Film Palme d'Or, Honorary Magritte Award, Animafest Zagreb and Annual award ACFK.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1394440: Raoul Servais
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- 1.Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 - 17 March 2023, Belgium). Lambiek. 21 décembre 2024.
- 2.Au-delà du septième art. Ministère des affaires étrangères, du commerce extérieur et de la coopération au développement. 302. 1979.
- 3.Raoul Servais reçoit le prix d'honneur Joseph Plateau au Film Fest Gent 2022. Cinergie. 21 octobre 2022 lire en.
- 4.Le réalisateur belge Raoul Servais est décédé lire en. La Libre Belgique La Libre. 2023-03-19 consulté.
- 5.Raoul Servais (94) overleden, internationaal geprezen pionier van de animatiefilm die onder meer Gouden Palm won. Het Laatste Nieuws. 2023-03-20. 1780-1273.
- 6.Raoul Servais, Pioneering Father of Belgian Animation, Passes at 94. Animation World Network.
- 7.Belgian Animation Master Raoul Servais, Director Of Palme d’Or Winner 'Harpya,' Dies At 94. Cartoon Brew. 2023-03-27.
- 8.Raoul Servais, father of belgian animation passes away at the age of 94. Animation World Network.
- 9.Goldframe .
- 10.To Speak or Not to Speak .
- 11.Opération X-70 .
- 12.Pégasus .
- 13.Harpya .
- 14.Norbert Hostyn. Biographie d'artiste - Servais Raoul. Dictionnaire des peintres belges.
- 15.Raoul Servais - Récompenses. Internet Movie Database.
- 16.Raoul Servais, un Magritte et un DVD. 6 février 2019.
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