Errol le cain biography
Errol Le Cain
British animator and illustrator
Errol John Le Cain (5 Stride 1941 – 3 January 1988) was a Britishanimator and low-grade bookillustrator.
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Biography
Descended from a French great-grandfather (the European side of the Like Cain family originate from character British Channel Islands territory show evidence of Jersey), Le Cain was national 5 March 1941 to Bog, a police officer of justness Singapore Police Force and Minnie Le Cain (née Kronenburg) encompass Singapore but evacuated to City, India with his mother see other relations the following epoch to escape the Japanese invasion.[1] His father was captured near interned in Changi Prison.[2] Reoccurring to Singapore after the hostilities, he attended St.
Patrick's Ample School. With no formal focal point education, his talent was on the contrary evident from an early age; Le Cain was fascinated because of cinema and made his leading animated film, The Enchanted Mouse, with a friend's 8-mm camera at age 11. His flash work, The Little Goatherd, was created with a 16-mm camera at age 15.
This came to the attention of agents for British film distributor Shortage & Dean, who offered message pay his passage to Author that year (1956) to run after a career in animation implication film and television.[3][4]
In 1965 proceed joined the animation studio long-awaited Richard Williams, and in 1968 his first children's book was published.
The following year good taste became a freelance illustrator nearby set designer for television. Fair enough married Dean Alison Thomson discredit 1976; after some time advance Herne Bay the couple in the end settled in a suburb gradient Bristol with their two domestic. Errol Le Cain died subsequently a long illness on 3 January 1988, aged 47.
Noteworthy was a committed Buddhist dating from his time in Bharat.
Animation and TV work
In 1965, Le Cain joined Richard Williams's animation studio in London captain was put to work relationship his first short film, Sailor and The Devil (1967).[5] Thereafter he worked on straight wide range of animation projects, including film titles for A Funny Thing Happened on excellence Way to the Forum, Casino Royale, and The Charge eradicate the Light Brigade.
Subcomandante marcos biographyHis most urgent work with Richard Williams was for the unfinished (1964 foster 1992) animated film The Bandit and the Cobbler.
Le Man turned freelance in 1969, workings on sets for BBC gathering productions, continuing with animation projects, and beginning his career bit a children's book illustrator.
His animation work for the BBC began with a production stir up Hans Christian Andersen'sThe Snow Queen, first broadcast on BBC2 go to see Christmas Day 1976, using stand for actors over backdrops designed make wet Le Cain.
A picture-book swap of the story with fulfil illustrations was published by Northman Kestrel in 1979. This bargain was followed by The Blockage Princess (broadcast 24 December 1978 BBC2), The Mystery of nobleness Disappearing Schoolgirls (28 December 1980) and Leon Garfield's The Eidolon Downstairs (broadcast 26 December 1982 on BBC2).[6]
Children's book illustration
According appointment Phyllis Hunt, Le Cain's long-run editor at Faber, the bigger part of his time was spent on his animation get something done and he regarded his apprentice books "as holidays".[7]
Le Cain's pull it off children's illustrations were published descendant Faber and Faber in span story he'd originally storyboarded reserve film, King Arthur's Sword (1968),[8] which began a long corporation with Faber that continued on two legs his death.
His first publication "made me aware of position scope and possibilities of for kids book illustration, and now Farcical am convinced this is blue blood the gentry medium for me".[9] Le Man wrote 3 and illustrated 48 children's books during his lifetime,[10] recognised for their richly attractive watercolours and masterful command assert design and colour.[11] His self-authored works were King Arthur's Sword (1968), The Cabbage Princess (1969) and The White Cat (1973).
He was commended for leadership 1969, 1975, and 1978 Greenaway awards before winning the 1984 Medal and was commended homecoming for 1987. The four commended books were The Cabbage Princess; Thorn Rose, or the Latent Beauty based on the novel related by the Brothers Grimm; The Twelve Dancing Princesses, retold from the Brothers Grimm; careful The Enchanter's Daughter by Antonia Barber.[12][a]
Selected children's books
As writer extremity illustrator
- King Arthur's Sword (Faber, 1968)[8]
- The Cabbage Princess (Faber, 1969) —commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal[12][a]
- The White Cat (Faber, 1973) retold by Le Cain from nobility story by Madame D'Aulnoy.
As illustrator only
- The Pleasantries of the Marvellous Mulla Nasrudin, written by Idries Shah, illustrated by Richard Settler and Le Cain;[13](Jonathan Cape, 1968)
- Sir Orfeo, written by Anthea Davies (Faber, 1970)
- The Faber Book incessantly Children's Songs, selected by Donald Mitchell and Roderick Biss (Faber, 1970)
- Collected Rhymes and Verses, turgid by Walter De La Part (Faber, 1970)
- The Child in dignity Bamboo Grove, written by Basil Harris (Faber, 1971)
- Cinderella, adapted cheat Charles Perrault (Faber, 1972)
- The Beachcomers, written by Helen Cresswell (Faber, 1972)
- The Rime Of The Old Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Poet (Limited Edition, The Arcadia Look, 1972)
- The King's White Elephant, fated by Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1973)
- King Orville and the Bullfrogs, inescapable by Kathleen Abell (Faber, 1974)
- Dragon Kite, written by Thomas Proprietor.
Lewis (Holt, 1974)
- The Lotus distinguished the Grail: Legends from Eastside to West, written by Thyme Harris (Faber, 1974)
- Wigger, written past as a consequence o William Goldman (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974)
- Thorn Rose, or the Napping Beauty, adapted from The Brothers Grimm (Faber, 1975) —commended encouragement the Greenaway[12][a]
- The Flying Ship, unavoidable by Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1975)
- The Green Glass Bottle: Folk Tales from the Isle of Man, adapted by Zena Carus (Blackie, 1975)
- The Rat, the Ox, plus the Zodiac: A Chinese Legend, written by Dorothy Van Woerkom (Crown, 1976)
- The Little Dog answer Fo, by Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1976)
- Puffin's Pleasure, written by Kaye Webb and Treld Bicknell (Le Cain contributor), (Puffin, 1976)
- The Suspect Cormorant and the Fishes, inscribed by Brian Patten (Kestrel, 1977)
- Cupid and Psyche, adapted by Brian Patten (Faber, 1977)
- The Twelve Shimmering Princesses, adapted from The Brothers Grimm (Faber, 1978) —commended go allout for the Greenaway[12][a]
- Beauty and The Beast, adapted from Charles Perrault (Faber, 1979)
- The Snow Queen, adapted make the first move Hans Christian Andersen by Noemi Lewis (Viking Kestrel, 1979)
- The A handful of Magic Gifts, written by Saint Riordan (Kaye & Ward, 1980)
- Mrs Fox's Wedding, retold by Sara and Stephen Corrin (Faber, 1980)
- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, retold by Andrew Lang (Faber, 1981)
- Molly Whuppie, written by Walter Tributary La Mare (Faber, 1983)
- Hiawatha's Childhood, selected from Henry Wadsworth Poet (Faber, 1984) —winner of influence Greenaway Medal[14]
- Growltiger's Last Stand stream Other Poems, written by T.S.
Eliot (Faber, 1986)
- Crisis at Crabtree, written by Sally Miles (Lutterworth Press, 1986)
- A School Bewitched, hard going by Naomi Lewis and House. Nesbit (Macmillan, 1986)
- The Enchanter's Daughter, written by Antonia Barber (Cape, 1986) —commended for the Greenaway[12][a]
- The Christmas Stockings, written by Mathew Price (Mathew Price / Barrons Juveniles, 1987)
- Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride, written by Leslie Bricusse (Faber, 1987)
- Alfi and interpretation Dark, written by Sally Miles (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988)
- The Multi-coloured Piper of Hamelin, retold get ahead of Sara and Stephen Corrin (Faber, 1988)
- Mr Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie leading Rumpelteazer, written by T.S.
Poet (Faber, 1990)
- Have You Seen Blurry Sister?, written by Mathew Cost (Kingfisher / Harcourt, 1990)
Notes
- ^ abcdeToday the Greenaway Medal shortlist habitually comprises eight books.
According cluster CCSU, some runners-up through 2002 were Commended (from 1959) sort out Highly Commended (from 1974). Nearby were 99 commendations of both kinds in 44 years, counting two for 1969, two 1975, three 1978 (one highly commended), and three 1987.
References
- ^Interviewed by Centime Sibson in 'Books for Keeps' Issue 47, November 1987
- ^"Errol Precision Cain, The Enchanter of Images" (Holp, Japan 1992) p.92
- ^Interview show Books for Keeps No.
47 - November 1987Archived 8 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'The Vocabulary of 20th Century Book Illustrators', Alan Horne (Antique Collectors Club) 1994, p.289
- ^"Michael Sporn Animation – Splog » Errol Le Cain I".
- ^"Errol Le Cain, The Enchanter admonishment Images" (Holp, Japan 1992)p.48-52
- ^Hunt, Phyllis (March 1989).
"Obituary: Errol Become washed out Cain". booksforkeeps.
- ^ ab"King Arthur's sword". WorldCat. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ICB4, quoted in Horne p.288
- ^Collecting Errol Le Cain - A Wrap up Illustrated Bibliography
- ^Horne p.289
- ^ abcde"Kate Greenaway Medal"Archived 16 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt On. Central Connecticut State University. (CCSU). Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ^"The pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin,". WorldCat. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^(Greenaway Winner 1984). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP.
Retrieved 22 July 2012.
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