1977 in animation

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Events in 1977 in animation.

Events

February

• February 9: Ralph Bakshi's Wizards is first released, which will later become a cult classic. [1]

March

• March 29: 49th Academy Awards: Leisure by Suzanne Baker wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [2]

June

• June 22: The Walt Disney Company releases The Rescuers, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery and Art Stevens. [3]

September

• September 10:
  • Hanna-Barbera first broadcasts Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. [4]
  • A celebrity animated TV show I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali, voiced by the boxing legend himself, is first broadcast, produced by Farmhouse Films. However, it will only run one season. [5]
• September 23: The first episode of the Hungarian animated TV series A kockásfülű nyúl is broadcast. [6]

Specific date unknown

• Magic Bus is founded. [7]
• Ruby-Spears is founded. [8]
• Robert Grossman, James Picker and Craig Whitaker's Jimmy The C is first released, a clay animation film starring U.S. President Jimmy Carter singing Georgia On My Mind. [9]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1977

• April 6 - The Easter Bunny Is Comin' To Town (United States)
• June 22 - The Rescuers (United States)
• December 15 - Dot and the Kangaroo (Australia)

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of 1977

Debuts

• February 12 - The New Adventures of Batman debuts on CBS (United States, 1977).
• September 10:
  • Baggy Pants and the Nitwits (United States, 1977) and CB Bears (United States, 1977) debuts on NBC.
  • Laff-A-Lympics (United States, 1977-1979) and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (United States, 1977-1978) debuts on ABC.

Deaths

February

• February 9: Zero Mostel, American actor (voice of Kehaar in Watership Down), dies at age 62.
• February 16: Frank Engli, American animator and comics artist, letterer and colorist (Fleischer Brothers), dies at age 70. [10]
• February 18: Andy Devine, American actor (voice of Friar Tuck in Robin Hood), dies at age 71. [11]
• February 21: John Hubley, American animator, film director, producer, screenwriter and comics artist (Mr. Magoo) dies at the age of 62.
• Specific date unknown: Irving Spector, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 62. [12]

March

• March 29: Peter Foldes, Hungarian-British animator and director (A Short Vision, Hunger), dies at age 52.

April

• April 27: Scott Bradley, American composer (composed soundtracks for Walt Disney Company, Ub Iwerks and eventually MGM cartoons, namely Tom & Jerry and the shorts of Tex Avery), dies at age 85.

May

• May 21: Art Landy, American animator (Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, Walter Lantz), dies at age 73.

June

• June 4: Svend Methling, Danish actor and (animated) film director (The Tinderbox: the first Danish animated feature film), passes away at age 85.
• June 14: Alan Reed, American voice actor (voice of Fred Flintstone, Boris the Russian Wolfhound in Lady and the Tramp), dies at age 69 from bladder cancer. [13]

July

• July: Milt Stein, American animator and comics artist (Terrytoons, Fleischer Studios), commits suicide at age 56.[14]

August

• August 22: Sebastian Cabot, British actor (voice of the narrator and Sir Ector in The Sword in the Stone, Bagheera in The Jungle Book, narrator in the Winnie the Pooh), dies at age 59.

September

• September 5: Tatsuo Yoshida, Japanese manga artist and animator (Speed Racer), dies at age 45 from liver cancer.[15]
• September 13: Leopold Stokowski, British conductor (conductor in Fantasia), dies at age 95 from a heart attack. [16]
• September 29: Bob McKimson, American animator, director and illustrator (Looney Tunes, Foghorn Leghorn, Tasmanian Devil), dies at age 66. [17]

October

• October 14: Bing Crosby, American singer (narrator in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), dies at age 74. [18]

November

• November 5: René Goscinny, French comics writer, artist, magazine publisher and animation director (Asterix and Cleopatra, Daisy Town, The 12 Tasks of Asterix, La Ballade des Dalton) , dies at age 51.[19]

See also

• 1977 in anime

References

1. IMDb title|0076929|Wizards
2. "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
3. Official website
4. • Captain Caveman at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 9, 2012.
5. http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/C/Fred_Calvert_Productions/I_Am_the_Greatest__The_Adventures_of_Muhammad_Ali/index.html Episode guide] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
6. "A kockásfülü nyúl (TV Series 1977– ) - IMDb". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
7. Official website (in Japanese)
8. http://www.rubyspears.com/ Ruby-Spears Productions, Inc. Official website
9. Jimmy the C on YouTube "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 14, 2011. Retrieved 2018-04-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
10. "Frank Engli". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
11. Devine, Dennis. Your Friend and Mine, Andy Devine, BearManor Media, 2013. ISBN 9781593932299
12. "Irving Spector". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
13. Thomas, Nick (September 23, 2015). "Alan Reed Jr. remembers 'The Flintstones' at 55". USA Today. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
14. "Milt Stein". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
15. "Tatsuo Yoshida". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
16. Allen Hughes, "Leopold Stokowski Is Dead of a Heart Attack at 95", The New York Times, 14 September 1977.
17. "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
18. Smith, Jim (October 19, 1977). "Memorial Rites Held for city favorite, Bing Crosby". The Spokesman Review. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
19. "René Goscinny". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.