Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directing
Born 1924-07-19
Died 2014-01-30
New York City, New York, USA
70 credits
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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).
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Filmography
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Directing
38 credits
The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Last Unicorn
The Hobbit
The Jackson 5ive
The Tomfoolery Show
The Smokey Bear Show
Frosty the Snowman
The Osmonds
The Flight of Dragons
Festival of Family Classics
The Return of the King
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Jack Frost
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
The Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
The Wind in the Willows
Cricket on the Hearth
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland
Jack O'Lantern
The Stingiest Man in Town
The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
The First Easter Rabbit
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Mouse on the Mayflower
That Girl in Wonderland
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
The Coneheads
A Christmas Tree
Producing
50 credits
ThunderCats
The Year Without a Santa Claus
SilverHawks
The Last Unicorn
The Hobbit
The Jackson 5ive
The King Kong Show
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Tomfoolery Show
The King and I
The Smokey Bear Show
The Bushido Blade
TigerSharks
Frosty the Snowman
King Kong Escapes
The Osmonds
The Flight of Dragons
Festival of Family Classics
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Jack Frost
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
The Bermuda Depths
The Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
The Last Dinosaur
The Ivory Ape
The Wind in the Willows
Mad Monster Party?
The Daydreamer
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Jack O'Lantern
The Stingiest Man in Town
Santa, Baby!
The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold
The Sins of Dorian Gray
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Ballad of Smokey the Bear
The First Easter Rabbit
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Mouse on the Mayflower
Marco
The Wacky World of Mother Goose
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Coneheads
Writing
11 credits
The Jackson 5ive
The Smokey Bear Show
Festival of Family Classics
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
The Bermuda Depths
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
The Ivory Ape
Mad Monster Party?
The Daydreamer
Cricket on the Hearth
The Wacky World of Mother Goose
Acting
5 credits
Other credits
4 credits
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