All of his movies feature a cameo appearance from Woody Woodpecker somewhere because he and Walter Lantz were close friends. The exception is Andy Panda, another Lantz character, who appears in Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975).
Despite being born to theater parents, Pal was said to have despised the stage.
He was one of Ray Harryhausen's early employers and mentors.
Is co-author (with Joe Morhaim) of a novel, Time Machine II, a sequel to the H.G. Wells classic.
Once designed art subtitles for silent films in the 1920s to keep food on the table.
Pal and his crew (Galaxy Films and, at Paramount, the Cauliflower Ear Gang) worked special-effects miracles at a time when there were no computers to help and very little precedent on which to go. Martian military hardware, time travel, and spaceship launch systems were designed from scratch. These were high-risk ventures that required considerable imagination (genius, really), ingenuity, determination, tenacity, and courage.
The estate of H.G. Wells was so impressed with The War of the Worlds (1953) that they offered Pal an option on any of Wells's science fiction stories. Pal choose The Time Machine (1960).
Unfinished or unmade film projects to which George Pal committed his personal time, money, and energy include "After Worlds Collide" (Paramount, 1955) - a sequel to When Worlds Collide (1951) - unmade due to the poor returns of Conquest of Space (1955); "Logan's Run" (MGM, 1968) - unmade due to poor returns of The Power (1968), eventually made by Saul David as Logan's Run (1976); "When The Sleeper Wakes" (MGM, 1972), based on the science-fiction novel by H.G. Wells - unmade due to Woody Allen's parody version then in production, Sleeper (1973); "Doc Savage II" (Warner Bros., 1976) - unmade due to poor returns of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975); "The Time Traveler" (MGM, 1977-78) aka "Time Machine II," a sequel to his movie of H.G. Wells's