| Bill Meléndez | |
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| Born | José Cuauhtemoc Meléndez November 15, 1916 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico |
José Cuauhtemoc "Bill" Meléndez (b. Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Sonora is one of the 31 federal states of Mexico and is located in the northwest of the country The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. November 15, 1916) is a Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers and the Peanuts series. Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Character animation is a specialized area of the Animation process concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Meléndez provided the voice of Snoopy and Woodstock in the latter as well. Snoopy is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M Woodstock is a Fictional character in Charles M Schulz 's Comic strip Peanuts.
A native of the Mexican town of Hermosillo, Meléndez was educated in public schools in Douglas, Arizona and later in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute (which would later become California Institute of the Arts). Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Douglas has a border crossing with Mexico and a history of Mining. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional Art school founded in 1921 in Los Angeles California, by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879-1969 The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California.
In 1938, Meléndez was hired by Walt Disney to work on animated short films and feature-length films such as Bambi, Fantasia, and Dumbo. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter BMP and Activin membrane bound inhibitor (BAMBI has a similar extracellular domain as type I receptors in the TGF beta signaling pathway. Fantasia is a 1940 Animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. Dumbo is a 1941 Animated feature Film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. Three years later, he joined Leon Schlesinger's team at the Warner Brothers studios, where, as a member of the Bob Clampett, Art Davis and Bob McKimson units, he animated on a number of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck shorts. Leon Schlesinger ( May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American Film producer, most noted for founding Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett ( May 8 1913 &mdash May 4 1984) was an American Animator, producer Arthur "Art" Davis ( June 14 1905 &ndash May 9 2000) was an Animator and a director for Warner Robert "Bob" McKimson Sr ( October 13, 1910 &mdash September 29, 1977) was an American Animator, Illustrator Clyde Rabbit (uncleMrs Bugs Bunny (wifePapa Bunny (fatherMama Bunny (motherRugs Bunny Daffy Duck is an Animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of UPA put him on their payroll in 1948 to work on many television commercials, as well as the Gerald McBoing-Boing and Madeline shorts. United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American Animation studio of the 1940s through present day beginning with industrial films Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America (UPA and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on January 25 Madeline is a Children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans, an American author of Belgian, Austrian and German origins
After a decade at two smaller production houses, Meléndez founded his own production company in 1964. Bill Melendez Productions helped produce the annually broadcast Christmas special A Charlie Brown Christmas, for which he won an Emmy Award and the George Foster Peabody Award despite having to work on short notice and with a tight budget. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965 is the first of many Prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular Comic strip The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting Meléndez performed the voice of Snoopy, who normally in the specials does not talk.
Meléndez has gone on to do over 75 half-hour Peanuts specials, including the 1989 miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown, as well as four feature-length motion pictures – all with partner Lee Mendelson. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M This is America Charlie Brown was an eight-part Animated TV mini-series, depicting events in American history Lee Mendelson (born ca 1933 is an American Television producer.
In 1979, he directed a made-for-TV animated version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with Warner Bros. for the Children's Television Workshop.[1]
Amongst the other comic strip characters he has animated are Cathy and Garfield, as well as the 1992 special Frosty Returns. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW) is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's Cathy is a Comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. Featuring a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life &mdash food love mom and Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. Frosty Returns is a 1992 half-hour long animated Television special featuring the character Frosty the Snowman.
In addition to animation, Meléndez was once a faculty member at the University of Southern California's Cinema Arts Department. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly He currently resides in Los Angeles.
He is parodied in the online cartoon Homestar Runner. Homestar Runner is a Flash animated Internet cartoon. It mixes Surreal humor with references to 1970s '80s and '90s pop culture
Related companies
- Melendez Films - Animation division : United Kingdom, video and interactive entertainment
References
- ^ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079474/
External links
- Bill Melendez at the Internet Movie Database
- Bill Melendez Productions Inc.
- Bio of Bill Meléndez on Chuck Jones site
- Interview of Meléndez (August '06)
- Still waiting on the ‘Great Pumpkin’
- Bill Meléndez at NYC ArtExpo
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Meléndez, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meléndez, José Cuauhtemoc; Meléndez, Bill |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Mexican-American animator, film director, film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15 November 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hermosillo, Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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