Joe Ruby

Joseph Clemens Ruby (born March 30, 1933) is an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Ken Spears of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions.[2]

Joe Ruby
Born
Joseph Clemens Ruby

(1933-03-30) March 30, 1933[1]
California, United States
OccupationAnimator, writer, editor, television producer
Years active1960–present

Life and career

He studied art and began his career in animation at Walt Disney Productions in the inbetweening department, later moving over to editing. He served in the Army and later worked for a short time in live-action television editing before moving to Hanna-Barbera Productions, where he met Ken Spears.[3] The two teamed up to become writers at , penning teleplays for several animated and live-action television programs, both freelance and as on-staff writers, starting for Hanna-Barbera and making their leave due to a wish to become associate producers.[4] They also worked as writers for Sid and Marty Krofft Television Productions and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.[3] Th

For Hanna-Barbera, Ruby and Spears created Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Jabberjaw, among other programs. At Depatie-Freleng, they created The Barkleys and The Houndcats. In the early 1970s, CBS president of children's programming Fred Silverman hired Ruby and Spears to supervise the production of CBS's Saturday morning cartoon lineup, a position they assumed at ABC when Silverman defected to that network.[3]

Wanting to create competition for Hanna-Barbera, ABC set Ruby and Spears up with their own studio in 1977, as a subsidiary of Filmways.[5] Ruby-Spears Productions produced a number of animated series for Saturday morning, among them Fangface, The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Hour, Thundarr the Barbarian, Saturday Supercade, Mister T, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Superman, among others.[5] Ruby-Spears was bought by Hanna-Barbera's parent company, Taft Entertainment, in 1981, and its back catalog was sold along with the Hanna-Barbera library and studio in 1991 to Turner Broadcasting. Current reissues of Ruby-Spears shows on DVD and digital platforms are therefore copyrighted by Hanna-Barbera Productions.[5]

Ruby continues to work with Spears on the production and development of animated series.[5]

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References
  1. http://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/joseph_clemens_ruby_born_1933_1634949
  2. Jack Kirby’s Heroes in Waiting
  3. Shostak, Stu (05-02-2012). "Interview with Joe Ruby and Ken Spears". Stu's Show. Retrieved 03-18-2013.
  4. "Ruby & Spears : WonderCon 2012".
  5. Shostak, Stu (01-16-2013). "[http://www.stusshow.com/archives.php Tribute To Joseph Barbera". Stu's Show. Retrieved 05-9-2019.



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