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Bill Melendez

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José Cuauhtémoc Meléndez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008), known as Bill Melendez, was a Mexican American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for The Walt Disney Company (working on four Disney films Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi), Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and the Peanuts series. [1]

51 relations: A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Arthur Davis (animator), Bambi, BBC, Bob Clampett, Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!), Broadway theatre, California Institute of the Arts, Character animation, Charles M. Schulz, Chouinard Art Institute, Direct-to-video, Disney animators' strike, Douglas, Arizona, Dumbo, Fantasia (1940 film), Frosty Returns, Frosty the Snowman (film), Garfield on the Town, Gerald McBoing-Boing, He's a Bully, Charlie Brown, Here Comes Garfield, Hermosillo, Kristin Chenoweth, Lee Mendelson, Leon Schlesinger, Melendez Films, Mexican Americans, National Student Film Institute, Peanuts, Pinocchio (1940 film), Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, Rankin/Bass Productions, Robert McKimson, Sally Brown, Santa Monica, California, Snoopy, Snoopy, Come Home, Sonora, Steven C. Melendez, Television special, The New York Times, The Peanuts Movie, Tony Award, University of Southern California, UPA (animation studio), Voice acting, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Woodstock (Peanuts), ..., You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Expand index (1 more) »

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 American animated comedy-drama film, produced by Cinema Center Films, distributed by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Melendez, it is the first feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip.

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Arthur Davis (animator)

Arthur "Art" Davis (June 14, 1905 – May 9, 2000) was an animator and a director for Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio.

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Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bob Clampett

Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.

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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) is a 1980 American animated comedy-drama film produced by United Feature Syndicate and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, known by its nickname CalArts, is a private university located in Valencia, California.

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Character animation

Character animation is a specialized area of the animation process, which involves bringing animated s to life.

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Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others).

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Chouinard Art Institute

The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879–1969) in Los Angeles, California.

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Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film to the public immediately on home video formats rather than a theatrical release or television broadcast.

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Disney animators' strike

The Disney animators' strike was a labor strike by the animators of Walt Disney Productions.

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Douglas, Arizona

Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States that lies in the north-west to south-east running San Bernardino Valley within which runs the Rio San Bernardino.

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Dumbo

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Fantasia (1940 film)

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions.

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Frosty Returns

Frosty Returns is an animated Christmas television special starring Jonathan Winters as the narrator and John Goodman as the voice of Frosty the Snowman.

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Frosty the Snowman (film)

Frosty the Snowman is a 1969 animated Christmas television special based on the song "Frosty the Snowman".

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Garfield on the Town

Garfield on the Town is a 1983 animated television special, directed by Phil Roman and based on the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis.

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Gerald McBoing-Boing

Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950.

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He's a Bully, Charlie Brown

He's a Bully, Charlie Brown is the 44th prime-time animated TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

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Here Comes Garfield

Here Comes Garfield is a 1982 animated television special based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis.

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Hermosillo

Hermosillo, formerly called Pitic (as Santísima Trinidad del Pitic and Presidio del Pitic), is a city located centrally in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora.

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Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth, July 24, 1968), The Biography Channel A&E Networks, accessed December 1, 2014; according to her autobiography, she was named Kristi Dawn Chenoweth upon her adoption five days after her birth.

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Lee Mendelson

Lee Mendelson (born March 24, 1933) is an American television producer.

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Leon Schlesinger

Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer, remembered for founding Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation.

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Melendez Films

Melendez Films is a film animation studio.

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Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans (mexicoamericanos or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent.

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National Student Film Institute

The National Student Film Institute (NSFI), formerly the Los Angeles Student Film Institute (LASFI), was founded in 1978 by Brenda Norman, Dave Master, Jutti Marsh and Ralph Rogers as a festival for films made by children from kindergarten through ninth grade.

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.

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Pinocchio (1940 film)

Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

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Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown! is a 1977 American animated adventure comedy film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman, and the third in a series of films based on the Peanuts comic strip.

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Rankin/Bass Productions

Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. (founded as Videocraft International, Ltd. and was later known as Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment) was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop motion animation.

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Robert McKimson

Robert Porter McKimson, Sr. (October 13, 1910 – September 29, 1977) was an American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros., and later DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

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Sally Brown

Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Snoopy

Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

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Snoopy, Come Home

Snoopy, Come Home is a 1972 American animated musical comedy-drama film directed by Bill Melendez and written by Charles M. Schulz based on the Peanuts comic strip.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Sonora (Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora), is one of 31 states that, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of United Mexican States.

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Steven C. Melendez

Steven Cuitlahuac Melendez is an American film and television director, producer and animator.

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Television special

A television special (often TV special, or rarely "television spectacular") is a stand-alone television show which temporarily interrupts episodic programming normally scheduled for a given time slot.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Peanuts Movie

The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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UPA (animation studio)

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio active from the 1940s through the 1970s.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.

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Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), also referred to as Disney Animation, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, is an American animation studio that creates animated feature films, short films, and television specials for The Walt Disney Company.

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Warner Bros. Cartoons

Warner Bros.

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Woodstock (Peanuts)

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Melendez

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