1986 in animation

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Events in 1986 in animation.

Events

January

• January 19: The first episode of Maple Town is broadcast.[1]

February

• February 3: Pixar is established.
• February 26: The first episode of Dragon Ball airs.[2]

March

• March 5: Walter Lantz receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[3]
• March 7: The first episode of Pingu airs.[4]
• March 24: 58th Academy Awards: Anna & Bella by Børge Ring wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[5]

April

• April 25: Peter Gabriel releases his single Sledgehammer, of which the animated music video will become a classic. [6]

June

• June 27: Jim Reardon's underground cartoon Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown is first released.[7]

July

• July 2: The Great Mouse Detective, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[8]

August

• August 8: The Transformers: The Movie premiers.[9]
• August 17: John Lasseter's Luxo Jr. premiers. The little lamp in the short will later become part of Pixar's logo.

September

• September 13:
  • The first episode of Foofur is broadcast.[10]
  • The first episode of Galaxy High airs.[11]
  • The first episode of Popples airs.[12]
  • The first episode of Pound Puppies airs.[13]
• September 15: The first episode of Karate Kommandos airs, an animated TV series based on Chuck Norris.[14]
• September 21: The first episode of Inhumanoids airs, which becomes notable for its remarkable gruesome imagery.[15]
• September 22: The first episode of Dennis the Menace airs.[16]

October

• October 12: The first episode of Janoschs Traumstunde airs.[17]

November

• November 21: Don Bluth's An American Tail premiers, which marks the debut of Fievel Mousekewitz.[18]

December

• December 3: The fifth Astérix film, Asterix in Britain, premiers.[19]

Specific date unknown

• The Brothers Quay release Street of Crocodiles. [20][21]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1986

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of 1986

Births

• May 11: Sean Jara, Canadian-born American cartoonist and animator

Deaths

January

• January 23: Frank Grundeen, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 74.[22]

February

• February 16: Andrzej Pawłowski, Polish painter, sculptor, photographer, film director and animated film director (Kineformy, Naturally Shaped Forms, Mannequins), dies at age 60.[23]

March

• March 16: George Jackson, British animator (worked on Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Danger Mouse and The BFG), dies at age 64.[24]
• March 25: Gloria Blondell, American actress (second voice of Daisy Duck in several Donald Duck cartoons), dies at age 70.[25]

April

• April 2: Jack Manning, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 65.[26]
• April 22: Dick Moores, American comics artist and animator (Telecomics Inc.), dies at age 75.[27]

May

• May 1: Arthur Lipsett, Canadian film director and animator (Very Nice, Very Nice, 21-87, A Trip Down Memory Lane), commits suicide at age 49.[28]
• May 24: George Gordon, American animator and animated film director (Terrytoons, MGM, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 79.[29]

June

• June 13: Benny Goodman, American jazz band leader (provided music to the All the Cats Join In and After You've Gone segments in Make Mine Music), dies at age 77.[30]

August

• August 19: Hermione Baddeley, British actor (Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in The Aristocats and Auntie Shrew in The Secret of NIMH), dies at age 79.[31][32]

October

• October 11: David Hand, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Company, Gaumont), dies at age 86.[33]

November

• November 2: Paul Frees, American actor and screenwriter (voice of Boris Badenov in Rocky and Bullwinkle, Inspector Fenwick in Dudley Do-Right, Ludwig von Drake in Disney anthology television series, Muscles in Jerry's Cousin, voice of John Lennon and George Harrison in The Beatles), dies at age 66.[34]
• November 22:
  • Jerry Colonna, American comedian, singer and musician and actor (voice of the Ringmaster in Pinocchio, the narrator of the Casey at the Bat segment in Make Mine Music and the short The Brave Engineer, voice of the March Hare in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 82.
  • Scatman Crothers, American voice actor (voice of Scat Cat in The Aristocrats, Meadowlark Lemon in Harlem Globetrotters, Hong Kong Phooey in Hong Kong Phooey, Old Man Bone in Coonskin, Jazz in The Transformers), dies at age 76.[35]
• November 23:
  • Norman Maurer, American comics artist, animator, screenwriter, film producer and animated film producer (Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 60 from cancer.[36]
  • Frank Smith, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Harman-Ising), passes away at the age of 78.[37]
• November 25: Don Towsley, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera, Chuck Jones, Filmation), dies at age 74. [38]

December

• December 12: Carlos Ramírez, Colombian singer (opera voice in Tex Avery's Magical Maestro), dies at age 70. [39]
• December 13: Heather Angel, British actress (voice of Alice's sister in Alice in Wonderland, Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan), dies at age 77.[40]
• December 31: Elmer Plummer, American painter and animator (Warner Bros. Animation, Walt Disney Studios), dies at age 76. [41]

See also

• 1986 in anime

References

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