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Arthur Rankin, Jr. (July 19, 1924 - January 30, 2014) was an American-born, Bermudian director, producer and writer, mostly working in animation.
The son of actor Arthur Rankin, in the early 1960s he founded the film production company Videocraft International (now called Rankin/Bass) with Jules Bass. The two worked closely together for many years, co-directing and producing a wide array of stop motion animated features and cartoons, perhaps most famously the holiday-themed TV specials, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974 TV special), and Jack Frost. He is also credited with devising the story for many Rankin/Bass productions, including the featurefilms The Daydreamer and Mad Monster Party?.
In 1977 Rankin and Bass produced a version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The pair also teamed on a wide variety of animated TV series, including ThunderCats and Silverhawks. The pair last teamed on the 1987 TV special based on The Wind in the Willows. Rankin's last producing credit was on the 1999 animated version of The King and I, in which Bass was not involved, since Arthur was a supervising animator in The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron.
Rankin's grandfather was Harry Davenport, perhaps best known as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Filmography
all 66
Movies 54
Producer 32
Director 26
TV Shows 12
Writer 3
Creator 3
ThunderCats (2011)
Santa, Baby! (2001)
The King and I (1999)
TigerSharks (1987)
SilverHawks (1986)
ThunderCats (1985)
The Wind in the Willows (1983)
The Coneheads (1983)
The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Bushido Blade (1981)
The Return of the King (1980)
Jack Frost (1979)
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)
The Hobbit (1977)
Hobbit (1977)
The Last Dinosaur (1977)
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1975)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Marco (1973)
A Christmas Tree (1972)
The Red Baron (1972)
Jack O'Lantern (1972)
The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters (1972)
The Osmonds (1972)
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1972)
The Jackson 5ive (1971)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Tomfoolery (1970)
Frosty the Snowman (1969)
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
The King Kong Show (1966)
Return to Oz (1964)
The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)
Rankin/Bass Animated
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GenderMale
Birthday1924-07-19
Deathday2014-01-30 (89 years old)
Birth NameArthur Gardner Rankin Jr.
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States
RelationshipsOlga Karlatos (1983 - 2014)
FatherArthur Rankin
CitizenshipsUnited States
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