Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director
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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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Behind the Camera
ThunderCats
Productor, Productor Ejecutivo
ThunderCats
Consulting Producer
Los Halcones Galácticos
Productor
Los Jackson 5
Productor, Director, Creator
El último unicornio
Productor, Director, Diseño de Producción
El retorno del Rey
Diseño de Producción, Director
El Hobbit
Director, Diseño de Producción, Productor
The Bushido Blade
Productor
Rudolph, el reno de la nariz roja
Productor
Frosty the Snowman
Director, Productor
El vuelo de los dragones
Director, Productor
The King Kong Show
Productor Ejecutivo
Los Tigres del Mar
Productor Ejecutivo
Vida y Aventuras de Santa Claus
Director, Productor
The Daydreamer
Productor, Escritor
キングコングの逆襲
Technical Advisor, Productor Ejecutivo
Aquel año sin Santa Claus
Director, Productor
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Director, Productor
Festival of Family Classics
Director, Productor, Creator
Santa, Baby!
Productor Ejecutivo
The Osmonds
Productor, Director
El Rey y Yo
Adaptation, Productor
El Niño del Tambor
Productor, Director
Mad Monster Party?
Productor, Historia
The Wind in the Willows
Director, Productor
The Smokey Bear Show
Productor, Director, Creator
The Last Dinosaur
Productor Ejecutivo
Juanito Escarcha
Director, Productor
The Bermuda Depths
Historia, Productor
Cricket on the Hearth
Escritor, Director