Willard Carroll

Nacimiento : , Easton, Maryland, USA

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Willard Carroll (born 1955 in Easton, Maryland) is an American film producer, writer, and director. He was executive producer of The Brave Little Toaster series, writing the screenplays for The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars. He wrote and directed the Ragnarok-themed horror/adventure film The Runestone, the ensemble romance, Playing by Heart, the family film, Tom's Midnight Garden, and the Bollywood pastiche, Marigold. An ardent fan of the Land of Oz, Carroll is recognized as having the largest privately-held collection of Oz memorabilia in the world, and several books, including The Wizard of Oz Collectors' Treasury and All Things Oz have been published displaying parts of is collection, which includes the Wicked Witch of the West's hourglass from the 1939 MGM film. He also wrote and produced the video series, The Oz Kids. He established Hyperion Pictures with Thomas L. Wilhite, a former Disney executive who greenlighted Return to Oz. Other animated films his studio released include The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, The Tangerine Bear, Rover Dangerfield, and Bebe's Kids. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willard Carroll, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Películas

Marigold
Dialogue
Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
Marigold
Story
Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
Marigold
Screenplay
Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
Marigold
Director
Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz
Himself
A featurette about The Wizard of Oz (1939).
3 caminos
Executive Producer
Lew es un hombre de dudoso pasado que guarda un gran secreto: ha escuchado sin querer un plan de secuestro por el que se pedirá un millón de dólares. Para él, esta es la oportunidad perfecta de salir de la mediocridad. Sólo tiene que ponerse manos a la obra y frustrar el plan de los secuestradores para quedarse con el dinero. Pero cuando Lew cuenta su secreto a tres mujeres que no son nada de fiar: Rita, una cautivadora amiga muy sexy, Isabel una secuestradora, y Florence, su plan de chantaje empieza a escapársele de las manos...
Las aventuras de Pulgarcito & Pulgarcita
Writer
Interpretado por Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt y otros, esta película cuenta con Tom Thumb y Thumbelina, los pequeños favoritos de cuentos de hadas, que están juntos por primera vez en esta conmovedora historia musical.
My Louisiana Sky
Executive Producer
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas!
Executive Producer
When Tangie, a teddy bear goes into the Smile-erator on his head, his smile is put on upside down, causing him to end up on the bargain bin on Christmas Eve with other misfit toys, then onto Winkle's Emporium, a discount store. There, Tangie does his level best over the coming year to become a part of some family. He spends his time in Winkle's front window with Jack, a Jack-in-the-box with claustrophobia and Bird, a cuckoo clock bird with agorophobia.
The Sissy Duckling
Executive Producer
Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him for being a sissy. However, after his unusual talents help him save a life, the other members of the flock learn to respect him as he is.
Tom's Midnight Garden
Screenplay
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, living upstairs. Because he may be infectious, he is not allowed to play outside and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden.
Tom's Midnight Garden
Director
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, living upstairs. Because he may be infectious, he is not allowed to play outside and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden.
O' Christmas Tree
Executive Producer
On Christmas Eve, a forlorn little pine tree feels she is too homely to ever realize her dream of being a real Christmas tree. With the help of a comical Baby Bear, a happy-go-lucky Squirrel, a cynical Nutcracker, and a host of other forest critters, as well as a visit from Santa Claus himself, the little tree discovers the true beauty of the season... shines from within!
Jugando con el corazón
Producer
Un grupo de personas que pertenecen a distintas generaciones y tienen estilos de vida muy distintos, coinciden en un punto común: buscan el amor y la amistad en Los Ángeles de hoy en día. Entre ellos están Hannah y Paul, un matrimonio cuya convivencia se verá amenazada. Meredith, una soltera vocacional consagrada a su trabajo. Hugh, un solitario, que va de bar en bar contando tristes historias de amor. Gracie y Roger, una pareja que ha encontrado la diversión sexual en una relación clandestina, o Joan y Keenan, dos jóvenes que pasan el tiempo soñando en los locales nocturnos de Los Ángeles. Todas estas personas experimentarán una transformación a causa de una cadena de acontecimientos imprevistos que harán que salga a la luz lo fugaz, complejo, y, a menudo, milagroso que puede ser el amor en según qué circunstancias.
Jugando con el corazón
Writer
Un grupo de personas que pertenecen a distintas generaciones y tienen estilos de vida muy distintos, coinciden en un punto común: buscan el amor y la amistad en Los Ángeles de hoy en día. Entre ellos están Hannah y Paul, un matrimonio cuya convivencia se verá amenazada. Meredith, una soltera vocacional consagrada a su trabajo. Hugh, un solitario, que va de bar en bar contando tristes historias de amor. Gracie y Roger, una pareja que ha encontrado la diversión sexual en una relación clandestina, o Joan y Keenan, dos jóvenes que pasan el tiempo soñando en los locales nocturnos de Los Ángeles. Todas estas personas experimentarán una transformación a causa de una cadena de acontecimientos imprevistos que harán que salga a la luz lo fugaz, complejo, y, a menudo, milagroso que puede ser el amor en según qué circunstancias.
Jugando con el corazón
Director
Un grupo de personas que pertenecen a distintas generaciones y tienen estilos de vida muy distintos, coinciden en un punto común: buscan el amor y la amistad en Los Ángeles de hoy en día. Entre ellos están Hannah y Paul, un matrimonio cuya convivencia se verá amenazada. Meredith, una soltera vocacional consagrada a su trabajo. Hugh, un solitario, que va de bar en bar contando tristes historias de amor. Gracie y Roger, una pareja que ha encontrado la diversión sexual en una relación clandestina, o Joan y Keenan, dos jóvenes que pasan el tiempo soñando en los locales nocturnos de Los Ángeles. Todas estas personas experimentarán una transformación a causa de una cadena de acontecimientos imprevistos que harán que salga a la luz lo fugaz, complejo, y, a menudo, milagroso que puede ser el amor en según qué circunstancias.
La tostadora valiente va a Marte
Executive Producer
La Tostadora, Kirby, Manti, Lampi, Radio, un Ventilador y Robi (El hijo del dueño) deciden ir al espacio volando con el ventilador, llegan a Marte y Robi se pierde y es raptado por una civilización de extraterrestres inteligentes, por ello los electrodomésticos deberán rescatarlo.
La tostadora valiente va a Marte
Screenplay
La Tostadora, Kirby, Manti, Lampi, Radio, un Ventilador y Robi (El hijo del dueño) deciden ir al espacio volando con el ventilador, llegan a Marte y Robi se pierde y es raptado por una civilización de extraterrestres inteligentes, por ello los electrodomésticos deberán rescatarlo.
La tostadora valiente 2: Al rescate
Screenplay
La Tostadora valiente y sus amigos deben rescatar a unos animales de una clínica veterinaria antes de que sean enviados a un laboratorio para hacer pruebas con ellos.
La tostadora valiente 2: Al rescate
Story
La Tostadora valiente y sus amigos deben rescatar a unos animales de una clínica veterinaria antes de que sean enviados a un laboratorio para hacer pruebas con ellos.
Killing Mr. Griffin
Executive Producer
The high school students didn't mean to kill Mr. Griffin. They wanted to make him suffer. But when their mean English teacher turns up dead, they have to find out who killed them before the police arrests them all.
The Return of Mombi
Writer
Mombi, an evil witch, has returned to Emerald City, kidnapping the Oz adults, good witch Glinda and the Nome King! Now it's up to Dot, Neddie and the Oz Kids to save Oz from Mombi's dark powers.
Journey Beneath the Sea
Writer
Jack Pumpkinhead, a pal of the Oz Kids, who wants to take a boat ride with all of his friends. During the ride, the boat begins to sink and Jack and the Oz Kids enter the water. There they discover two mermaids who take them on a magical and adventurous underwater excursion. When Zog and the sea devils try to ruin their fun, the adventure gets more wild and exciting than Dot, Neddie and the Oz Kids ever expected.
The Monkey Prince
Writer
Neddie (Dorothy's son) programs a computer belonging to the Wizard's son, Frank, to take him and Toto 2 to China. Once there, they are met by the Monkey Prince who steals the computer. Unless the other Oz Kids can find them, Neddie and Toto 2 will never get back to Emerald City!
Virtual Oz
Writer
Prince Otto has no friends, so he decides to force the Oz Kids into a virtual reality computer game presented to them at Scraps's baby shower. Unfortunately, the patchwork baby gets into the game and overflows the number of players, trapping them in a deteriorating program from which they have little chance of escape. Otto had no wish to actually harm them, and must try to get them out.
Christmas in Oz
Writer
It's time for the Oz Kids' annual Christmas party, and everyone's invited — except for Otto the Nome Prince, that is. Otto is so upset that he steals Andrea's invitation. And Andrea (who inherited her mother Glinda's magic) believes she wasn't invited and joins forces with Otto to get even.
Who Stole Santa?
Writer
Santa Claus has been kidnapped, with Christmas just weeks away! The usually timid Boris (the Cowardly Lion's son) teams with an elf named Wisk to find St. Nick. Now the Oz Kids have to rescue Santa and Boris!
Underground Adventure
Writer
An earthquake stirs up yet another adventure for the Oz Kids. What begins as an innocent bus trip for Frank (the Wizard's son) turns into a wild underground ride for all the kids as they encounter dragonettes, merry-go-round mountains, an enormous teddy bear and more!
The Nome Prince and the Magic Belt
Writer
The Nome Prince Otto finds one of his father's 1908 tunnels under Oz to the Emerald City. Boris, the Cowardly Lion's son, has accidentally released the hold on the display case of the magic belt, and Otto swipes it while the kids try to keep their parents from finding out what happened. When they try to retrieve the belt, Otto transforms them into ornaments in his father's favorite game, leaving Dot to discover who is who.
Toto, Lost in New York
Writer
Andrea, daughter of Glinda, who dresses like Ozma, accidentally sends Toto 2 to New York in a hot air balloon made by Frank, the Wizard's son. The other kids must follow the course set by Frank's computer to take them to him. When they arrive, their balloon is trashed, and they meet Rick, a homeless man who has adopted Toto. The strange appearance of some of the kids keeps plans to return from going smoothly, but are affected much more so by a clash of cultures.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Producer
During a piano lesson, a music teacher discovers a harmless spider, so she calls in The Exterminator.
El guerrero del tiempo
Screenplay
Una antigua piedra única esculpida por antiguos nórdicos, es encontrada siglos después en una mina de carbón de Pennsylvania y se desata la maldición: un demonio sediento de sangre.
El guerrero del tiempo
Director
Una antigua piedra única esculpida por antiguos nórdicos, es encontrada siglos después en una mina de carbón de Pennsylvania y se desata la maldición: un demonio sediento de sangre.
La tostadora valiente
Executive Producer
Ésta película cuenta la historia de la Tostadora, Manty (la manta eléctrica), Lampy (la lámpara), la Radio, y Kirby (la aspiradora), quienes viven en una casa de campo, junto a su dueño, niño que era su dueño y jugaba con ellos pero un día se fue, desde entonces los aparatos han estado esperando el día que su dueño volviera, pero una mañana alguien se bajó de un coche y colocó un cartel de "EN VENTA" delante de la casa. Así que deciden ir con una batería a buscar a su dueño a la ciudad. Pero se desvían y acaban en cascadas, lagos y tiendas de piezas de aparatos. Por otra parte el dueño que ya es mayor y tiene que irse a la universidad quiere ir a la casa de campo a por sus cosas, los aparatos de la casa moderna se enteran y deciden deshacerse de ellos y cuando los aparatos llegan a la casa estos los tiran a un contenedor rumbo a un vertedero.
El Cascanueces
Producer
Este ballet de Chaikovski, que se inspira en el cuento de E.T.A. Hoffman "El cascanueces y el rey de los ratones", se estrenó el 5 de diciembre de 1892 con un libreto de Marius Petipa. Es la primera vez que se lleva al cine gracias a la inestimable colaboración del Pacific Northwest Ballet y la London Symphony Orchestra dirigida por Sir Charles Mackerras. (FILMAFFINITY)