1975 in animation
Events in 1975 in animation.
Events
January
- January 5:
- The first episode of Dog of Flanders is broadcast, an adaptation of Ouida's novel A Dog of Flanders.[1][2]
- The first episode of Paddington is broadcast, based on the eponymous children's books by Michael Bond.[3]
- January 11: An animated TV special of the 2000 Year Old Man sketch is broadcast on CBS, with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner reprising their characters. The animation is produced by Leo Salkin Films.[4]
March
- March 21: Tomoharu Katsumata and Tim Reid's Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid premieres.[5]
April
- April 1:
- Alexander Schure's Tubby the Tuba is first released.
- The first episode of the television series Maya the Honey Bee is broadcast.[6]
- April 3: Monty Python and the Holy Grail premieres which has several animated intermezzos and combinations of animation with live-action, directed by Terry Gilliam.[7]
- April 8: 47th Academy Awards: Closed Mondays by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[8][9]
June
- June 11: Raúl daSilva's Rime of the Ancient Mariner premieres.[10]
July
- July 17: Manuel García Ferré's Trapito premieres.[11]
August
- August 20: Ralph Bakshi's film Coonskin, a combination of animation and live-action, premieres. It flops at the box office due to accusations of racism.[12] It will take decades before it eventually becomes a cult classic and sheds its undeserved bad reputation.[13]
- August 28: Kjell Aukrust's The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix is first released.[14]
September
- September 4: Belgian cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger release their animated feature film debut Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle which will become a cult classic.[15][16]
- September 6:
- The first episode of The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, produced by Filmation, is broadcast.[17]
- The first episode of Uncle Croc's Block is broadcast, a live-action children's TV show with animated intermezzo's: M*U*S*H, Fraidy Cat and Wacky and Packy.[18]
- September 8: John Hubley's Everybody Rides the Carousel premieres.[19]
October
- October 1: The first episode of Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures is broadcast.[20]
- October 5: The first episode of Grendizer is broadcast.[21][22]
- October 6: The first episode of The Adventures of Pepero is broadcast.[23][24]
- October 10: The first episode of Bod is broadcast.[25]
- October 15: The first episode of Ikkyū-san is broadcast.[26]
- October 23: Yuri Norstein's Hedgehog in the Fog premieres.[27]
November
- November 9: Sally Cruikshank's Quasi at the Quackadero is first released which will become a cult classic.[28]
December
- December 19: Bob Clampett releases the anthology film Bugs Bunny: Superstar, directed by Larry Jackson which is the first Looney Tunes package film. The film will attract controversy amongst some of Clampett's colleagues, most obviously Chuck Jones, because Clampett takes credit for many contestable claims.[29][30]
- December 24: Per Åhlin's Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton is first released which in Sweden will become an annual Christmas tradition.[31]
- December 25: William Feigenbaum and József Gémes' Hugo the Hippo premieres.[32]
Specific date unknown
- Halas and Batchelor animates the music video for Roger Glover's song Love Is All in which a singing frog with a guitar gathers animals for a ball in the forest.[33]
- Bill Melendez' Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done premieres, based on designs by Ronald Searle.[34]
- André Leduc and Bernard Longpré's Monsieur Pointu premieres.[35]
- The first episode of Leopold the Cat is broadcast.[36]
- Robert Swarthe's Kick Me premieres.[37]
- Bob Godfrey's Great premieres.[38]
- Chuck Jones' adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is released.
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 3: Jason Marsden, America voice actor (voice of Max Goof since 1995 Adult Kovu in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Michael in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, Peter Pan in Peter Pan & the Pirates, Snapper Carr in Justice League, Danger Duck in Loonatics Unleashed, Haku in Spirited Away, Nermal in the Garfield franchise, Cavin in seasons 4 and 5 of Adventures of the Gummi Bears).
- January 31: Jorge R. Gutierrez, Mexican animator (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Book of Life, Maya and the Three).
February
- February 5: Ana Lúcia Menezes, Brazilian actress (voice of Amy Rose in Sonic X and Sonic Boom, Margaret in Regular Show, Gwen Tennyson in Ben 10, Misa Amane in Death Note and Koto in Yu Yu Hakusho) (d. 2021).[39]
- February 16: Rebecca Shoichet, Canadian voice actress (singing voice of Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, voice of Sunset Shimmer in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls).
- February 17: Raymond S. Persi, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor (The Simpsons, Walt Disney Animation Studios).
- February 21: Drew Barrymore, American actress (voice of the title character in Olive, the Other Reindeer, Akima in Titan A.E., Jillian in Family Guy).
- February 26: Matthew Faughnan, American animator and director (The Simpsons).
March
- March 16: Eban Schletter, American composer and songwriter (SpongeBob SquarePants, Father of the Pride, Drawn Together, The Patrick Star Show).
- March 30: Valentina Garza, Cuban-American television writer and producer (The Simpsons, Bordertown).
April
- April 2: Deedee Magno Hall, American actress and singer (voice of Pearl in Steven Universe, Steven Universe: the Movie, and Steven Universe Future).
- April 13: Angus MacLane, American film director, animator, screenwriter, and voice actor (Pixar).
- April 15: Elissa Knight, American voice actress and assistant (voice of Tia in Cars, EVE in WALL-E).
- April 22: Dannah Phirman, Israeli-born American actress (voice of Zaria in Tak and the Power of Juju, WordGirl/Becky Botsford, Claire McCallister, Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy's Mother, Edith Von Hoosinghaus and Pretty Princess in WordGirl, Penny in The Mighty B!, Missy in The Fairly OddParents episode Finding Emo, The Moon and Ben's Mom in Talking Tom and Friends), comedian and writer (The Mighty B!, WordGirl, The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show).
May
- May 9: Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor (voice of Mickey Mouse in Mickey Mouse, and The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck and Storkules in DuckTales, Green Arrow in the Batman Unlimited franchise and Justice League Action).
- May 30: Loni Steele Sosthand, American television writer (The Simpsons).
June
- June 25: Linda Cardellini, American actress (voice of Wendy Corduroy in Gravity Falls, Marcy 'Hot Dog Water' Fleach in Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated, CJ in Regular Show).
July
- July 10: Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (Robbie Rotten in LazyTown), (d. 2018).[40]
- July 12: Phil Lord, American producer (The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bless the Harts, The Mitchells vs. The Machines), director (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie), writer (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) and voice actor (co-created Clone High).
- July 20: Jason Raize, American actor and singer (voice of Denahi in Brother Bear), (d. 2004).[41]
August
- August 6: Trista H. Navarro, American animation production manager (The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie), (d. 2019).[42]
- August 7: Christy Hui, Chinese producer (creator of Xiaolin Showdown).
- August 29: Dante Basco, American voice actor (voice of Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jake Long in American Dragon: Jake Long).
September
- September 19: Jim Hecht, American writer (The Fairly OddParents, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild).
- September 23: Christopher Miller, American producer (The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bless the Harts, The Mitchells vs. The Machines), director (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie), writer (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) and voice actor (co-created Clone High).
October
- October 5: Scott Weinger, American actor (voice of the title character in the Aladdin franchise and House of Mouse).
- October 16: Kellie Martin, American actress (voice of Young Daphne Blake in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Molly Tazmanian Devil in Taz-Mania, Sadira in Aladdin, Roxanne in A Goofy Movie).
November
- November 2: Danny Cooksey, American actor (voice of Montana Max in Tiny Toon Adventures, the title character in Dave the Barbarian).
December
- December 1: David Hornsby, American actor, screenwriter and producer (voice of Brandon in The X's, Fanboy in Fanboy & Chum Chum, Joel Zymanski in Unsupervised (which he co-created), Tyson, Vivian, Radley and Edwardo in Sanjay and Craig, Wildvine in Ben 10, Leif Bornewell III in Welcome to the Wayne, Harry in the We Bare Bears episode "Christmas Movies", The Riddler in DC Super Hero Girls).
Deaths
January
- January 22: Hazel Sewell, American animator (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 76.[43]
February
- February 23: Frank Smith, American animator and animated film director (Fleischer Studios, UPA, Peanuts animated specials), dies at age 63.[44]
March
- March 2: Salvador Mestres, Spanish animator, film director and comics artist (wrote and directed for Hispano Grafic Films), dies at age 64 or 65.[45]
May
- May 8: Abe Levitow, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM animation, UPA) and director (directed Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, co-directed The Phantom Tollbooth), dies at age 52.[46]
June
- June 19: Ge Ge Pearson, American actress (second voice of Crusader Rabbit in Crusader Rabbit), dies at age 58.
- July 19: Manny Gould, American animator (Barré Studio, Paramount Studios, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Ed Graham Productions, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 71.[47]
August
- August 14 Frank Marsales, Canadian composer (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walter Lantz Studios), dies at age 88.
September
- September 4: Walter Tetley, American actor (voice of Felix the Cat, Andy Panda, Sherman in The Peabody segments of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends), dies at age 60.
October
- October 16: Don Barclay, American actor and caricaturist (voice of the Doorman in Cinderella), dies at age 82.
- October 29: John Scott Trotter, American arranger, composer and orchestra leader (did the scores for Peanuts TV specials and A Boy Named Charlie Brown), dies at age 67.
November
- November 28: Valentina Brumberg, Russian animator and film director (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Lost Letter, The Night Before Christmas, It Was I Who Drew the Little Man), dies at age 76.
December
- December 7: Hardie Albright, American actor (voice of adolescent Bambi in Bambi), dies at age 71.
- December 18: Ray Bailey, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Brothers), dies at age 62.[48]
- December 24: Harold Mack, British animator and comics artist (worked for Gaumont British Animation, British Animated Pictures and Marten Toonder's animation studio, established his own animation studio The Anglo-Dutch Group), passes away at the age 67.[49]
- December 26: Igor Podgorskiy, Russian animator, dies at age 53. [50]
See also
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External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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