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Arthur Rankin Jr.
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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,…
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Rankin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2024
The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along
Movie Director
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2011
Snarf: Butterfly Blues
Movie Consulting Producer
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2011
ThunderCats
TV show Consulting Producer
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2001
Santa, Baby!
Movie Executive Producer
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1999
The King and I
Movie Adaptation
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1987
TigerSharks
TV show Executive Producer
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1986
SilverHawks
TV show Producer
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1986
SilverHawks: The Origin Story
Movie Director
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1985
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Movie Director
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1985
ThunderCats
TV show Producer
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1983
The Wind in the Willows
Movie Director
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1983
The Coneheads
Movie Producer
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1983
The Sins of Dorian Gray
Movie Executive Producer
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1982
The Last Unicorn
Movie Producer
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1982
The Flight of Dragons
Movie Director
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1981
The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold
Movie Director
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1981
The Bushido Blade
Movie Producer
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1980
Pinocchio's Christmas
Movie Director
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1980
The Return of the King
Movie Production Design
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1980
The Ivory Ape
Movie Producer
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1979
Jack Frost
Movie Director
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1979
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Movie Producer
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1978
The Stingiest Man in Town
Movie Director
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1978
The Bermuda Depths
Movie Story
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1977
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Movie Director
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1977
The Hobbit
Movie Director
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1977
The Last Dinosaur
Movie Executive Producer
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1977
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Movie Director
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1976
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II
Movie Producer
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1976
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Movie Director
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1976
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Movie Director
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1976
The First Easter Rabbit
Movie Director
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1975
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
Movie Director
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1974
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Movie Director
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1974
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Movie Director
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1973
Marco
Movie Producer
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1973
Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland
Movie Director
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1973
That Girl in Wonderland
Movie Director
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1972
A Christmas Tree
Movie Director
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1972
The Red Baron
Movie Producer
