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- Willard Carroll is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Carroll and Thomas L. Wilhite were the co-founders of the film studio "Hyperion Pictures".
As a film director, Carroll is known for the Ragnarok-themed horror film "The Runestone" (1991), the romantic film "Playing by Heart" (1998), the fantasy film "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1999), and the Indian-themed romantic comedy "Marigold" (2007). As a screenwriter he is known for animated films, such as "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" (1997) and "The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue".
Willard is a fan of the "Land of OZ" and has a large collection of Oz memorabilia. His contribution to the franchise was the television series "The Oz Kids" (1996), which he both produced and scripted.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dimos I
- Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1978)
- Has the largest private collection of L. Frank Baum and Oz related material in the world, which was subject of the book "100 Years of Oz" by John Fricke.
- 2001 winner of The L. Frank Baum Memorial Award.
- Worked as a reader at ABC Motion Pictures.
- The son of an undertaker.
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