Birthday:
Birthday:

Vera joined Halas & Batchelor in 1940 fresh out of art school. Her talents and need to express them quickly moved her from tracing work – copying the pencil drawings of others onto clear cels in ink – to animating herself. She remained a key member of the company in its founding years, before leaving to join the Larkins Studio in the late 40s. Vera flourished at Larkins, working particularly well with Nancy Hanna who was already established there and the two were head-hunted to work in an animation department at Pearl & Dean under ex-UPA man Dave Hilberman in 1953 or 54. Hildenburg’s tenure at Pearl & Dean was unfortunately short-lived and Nancy and Vera were not treated well by the management thereafter. They both moved to join Bob Godfrey and Keith Learner at Biographic in 1957, and remained key a fixture of the British animation industry there until she retired in 1985. Post-retirement, Vera has left animation behind but continues to paint and exhibit her work.
Birthday: January 01, 1923

January 01, 1956

January 01, 1964

January 02, 1951

January 01, 1971

October 01, 1949

January 01, 1943

January 01, 1948

January 01, 1942

January 01, 1943

November 15, 1945

January 02, 1949

January 02, 1948

July 16, 1948

September 19, 1968

August 11, 1968

January 01, 1957

July 18, 1949

January 01, 1948

September 01, 1966

January 01, 1942

May 21, 1965

April 01, 1947

April 01, 1961

August 06, 1953

July 09, 1970

January 01, 1954

January 01, 1960

November 01, 1962

July 11, 2019