Paul Thomas Berry (13 March 1961 – 26 June 2001) was a British stop-motion animator who first worked on

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's '' Wind in the Willows'' before directing the 1991 Oscar-nominated short horror stop-motion animation film '' The Sandman''. In 1992, the film was awarded the Craft Prize for Best Animation at

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.Ottawa International Animation Festival (1992)-IMDB
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Career

Other projects Paul Berry worked on included ''

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'' (animator), '' James and the Giant Peach'' (animation supervisor), '' Monkeybone'' (supervising animator)Animator Paul Berry Passes Away (By Barry J.C. Purves)-Animation World Network
/ref> and the music video for Primus' cover of " The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

Death

On 26 June 2001 Berry died of a

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. He had stayed strong for several months prior to his death. He was 40 years old.

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* * , full version of Paul Berry's short film. 1961 births 2001 deaths Stop motion animators British animators British animated film directors Deaths from brain cancer in England {{animator-stub