Arthur Rankin Jr.
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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Fotos
Filmes (59)
The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along
2024 · Director
Snarf: Butterfly Blues
2011 · Consulting Producer
Santa, Baby!
2001 · Executive Producer
O Rei e Eu
1999 · Adaptation, Producer
SilverHawks: The Origin Story
1986 · Director
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
1985 · Director, Producer
The Wind in the Willows
1983 · Director, Producer
The Coneheads
1983 · Producer, Director
The Sins of Dorian Gray
1983 · Executive Producer
The Last Unicorn
1982 · Producer, Director, Production Design
The Flight of Dragons
1982 · Director, Producer
The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold
1981 · Director, Producer
The Bushido Blade
1981 · Producer
Pinocchio's Christmas
1980 · Director, Producer
The Return of the King
1980 · Production Design, Director
The Ivory Ape
1980 · Producer, Executive Producer, Writer
Jack Frost
1979 · Director, Producer
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
1979 · Producer, Director, Production Design
The Stingiest Man in Town
1978 · Director, Producer
The Bermuda Depths
1978 · Story, Producer
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
1977 · Director, Producer
The Hobbit
1977 · Director, Production Design, Producer
The Last Dinosaur
1977 · Executive Producer
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
1977 · Director, Producer
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II
1976 · Producer, Director
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
1976 · Director, Producer
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
1976 · Director, Producer
The First Easter Rabbit
1976 · Director, Producer
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975 · Director, Producer
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974 · Director, Producer
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
1974 · Director, Producer
Marco
1973 · Producer
Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland
1973 · Director
That Girl in Wonderland
1973 · Director
A Christmas Tree
1972 · Director
The Red Baron
1972 · Producer, Director
Jack O'Lantern
1972 · Director, Producer
Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid
1972 · Director, Producer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1972 · Producer, Director
The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters
1972 · Producer, Director
The Emperor's New Clothes
1972 · Producer, Director
Festival of Family Classics: Swiss Family Robinson
1972 · Director of Photography
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
1971 · Director, Producer
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970 · Director, Producer
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
1970 · Director
Frosty the Snowman
1969 · Director, Producer
The Little Drummer Boy
1968 · Producer, Director
The Mouse on the Mayflower
1968 · Director, Producer
Cricket on the Hearth
1967 · Writer, Director
The Wacky World of Mother Goose
1967 · Producer, Story
King Kong Escapes
1967 · Technical Advisor, Executive Producer
Mad Monster Party?
1967 · Producer, Story
Ballad of Smokey the Bear
1966 · Producer
The Daydreamer
1966 · Producer, Writer
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
1965 · Director, Producer, Writer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964 · Producer
Return to Oz
1964 · Producer
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939 · Second Telegraph Operator
Finders Keepers
1928 · Percy
Séries (11)
Thundercats (2011)
2011 · Consulting Producer
TigerSharks
1987 · Executive Producer
SilverHawks
1986 · Producer
ThunderCats
1985 · Producer, Executive Producer
Festival of Family Classics
1972 · Director, Producer, Creator
The Osmonds
1972 · Producer, Director
The Jackson 5ive
1971 · Producer, Director, Creator
The Tomfoolery Show
1970 · Producer, Director
The Smokey Bear Show
1969 · Producer, Director, Creator
The King Kong Show
1966 · Executive Producer
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1960 · Creator