1966 in animation
Events in 1966 in animation.
Events
January
- January 3: The first episode of Camberwick Green is broadcast.
February
- February 4: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. This marks the debut of A.A. Milne's literary character Winnie-the-Pooh as an animated franchise.
April
- April 1: The final episode of Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones is broadcast, making it the longest-running prime time animated TV series until The Simpsons break its record in 1997. [1]
- April 18: 38th Academy Awards: Chuck Jones' The Dot and the Line wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [2]
- April 21: The first episode of Batfink is broadcast. [3]
August
- August 3: The film The Man Called Flintstone is first released, a feature film adaptation of The Flintstones.
September
- September 10:
- The first episode of Laurel and Hardy is broadcast, an animated TV series by Hanna-Barbera based on the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
- The first episode of Space Ghost, produced by Hanna-Barbera, is broadcast.
- The first episode of The New Adventures of Superman is broadcast.
October
- October 9: The first episode of Rocket Robin Hood is broadcast.
- October 29: The first episode of The Mighty Heroes airs.
December
- December 5: The first episode of Sally the Witch is broadcast.
- December 15': Walt Disney dies while producing The Jungle Book, the last animated feature under his personal supervision.
- December 18: Chuck Jones' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, an animated Christmas TV special, premiers and will become a holiday classic. It is an adaptation of Dr. Seuss' eponymous children's novel .
Specific date unknown
- Karel Zeman's The Stolen Airship premiers.
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 5: Yuri Amano, Japanese voice actress.
February
- February 4: Tim Cahill, American producer, writer, animator and cartoonist (creator of My Gym Partner's A Monkey).
- February 27: Kinji Yoshimoto, Japanese animator, animated film director (Legend of Lemnear, I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job, Unbreakable Machine-Doll, Seven Mortal Sins) and composer, (d. 2021).[4]
March
- March 5: Julie McNally Cahill, American producer, writer, animator and cartoonist (creator of My Gym Partner's A Monkey and wife of Timothy Cahill).
June
- June 16: Phil Vischer, American voice actor, puppeteer, writer, animator (creator and voice of Bob the Tomato in VeggieTales and founder of Big Idea Entertainment).
July
- July 8: Mike Nawrocki, American voice actor, writer, animator, director (co-creator and voice of Larry the Cucumber in VeggieTales and co-founder of Big Idea Entertainment).
- July 18: Lori Alan, American voice actress.
- July 29: Richard Steven Horvitz, American voice actor.
August
- August 1: Daniel Gerson, American screenwriter and voice actor (Monsters, Inc., Chicken Little, Cars, Monsters University and Big Hero 6) (d. 2016).
October
- October 11: Luke Perry, American actor (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled, an episode of Johnny Bravo and the Family Guy episode The Story on Page One) (d. 2019).[5][6]
November
- November 23: Jerome Ranft, American animator, sculptor and voice actor (Pixar).
Deaths
March
- March 25: Colin Campbell, Scottish actor (voice of Mr. Mole in The Wind in the Willows segment in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), dies at age 83.
April
- April 28: Jesse Marsh, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 58. [7]
June
- June 19: Ed Wynn, American actor (voice of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 79.
July
- July 3: Deems Taylor, American composer (master of ceremonies in Fantasia), dies at age 80.
- July 16: Leslie Elton, American animator and comics artist (worked for J.R. Bray), dies at age 72.[8]
- July 28: Judd Conlon, American vocal arranger and conductor (Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan), dies at age 56.
December
- December 14: Verna Felton, American voice actress (voice of Mrs. Jumbo and Elephant Matriarch in Dumbo, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, Flora and Queen Leah in Sleeping Beauty, Pearl Slaghoople in The Flintstones, Winifred the Elephant in The Jungle Book), dies at age 76.
- December 15: Walt Disney, American animation producer (Walt Disney Company) and voice actor (co-creator and voice of Mickey Mouse), dies at age 65. [9]
- December 23: Volney White, American animator and director (Romer Grey Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 59.
- December 28: Clarence Wheeler, American composer (wrote music for Walter Lantz's and George Pal's cartoons, as well as Crusader Rabbit and Gumby), dies at age 81.
Sources
- "Big Cartoon Database". bcdb.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
- "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- "Hal Seeger". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- Hodgkins, Crystalyn (10 November 2021). "Director, Animator Kinji Yoshimoto Passes Away". Anime News Network. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- Ganz, Jami; Dillon, Nancy (February 28, 2019). "Luke Perry, star of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Riverdale", hospitalized after suffering stroke". New York, NY: New York Daily News. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- "Luke Perry, '90210' and 'Riverdale' Star, Dies at 52". variety.com. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
- Jesse Marsh at INDUCKS
- "Leslie Elton". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- "Walt Disney". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
See also
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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