1985 in animation
1985 in animation events.
Events
January
- January 23: The first episode of Thundercats airs.[1]
March
- March 1: Will Vinton's The Adventures of Mark Twain is released,[2] which will become a cult classic.
- March 4: The first episode of The World of David the Gnome airs.[3]
- March 22: He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword is released, the first animated feature based on a toy line.[4]
- March 24: The Care Bears Movie premiers in theaters.[5]
- March 25: 57th Academy Awards: Charade by Jon Minnis wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
May
- May 8–19: 1986 Cannes Film Festival: Jiří Barta's The Pied Piper premiers.[7]
June
- June: Studio Ghibli is founded.
- Richard Condie's The Big Snit is released.[8]
July
- July 4: The first episode of The Raccoons airs.[9]
- July 24: The Walt Disney Company releases The Black Cauldron.[10]
September
- September 7: The first episode of Ewoks airs[11] and Star Wars: Droids,[12] the first animated TV series based on Star Wars air.
- September 14:
- The first episode of Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling airs, based on the popularity of wrestler Hulk Hogan.[13]
- The first episodes of The Wuzzles [14] and Gummi Bears air.[15] Both mark the first time the Walt Disney Company produces animated television series.
- The first episode of The Care Bears airs.[16]
November
- November 15: Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is first released.[18]
- November 22: Starchaser: The Legend of Orin premiers, the first animated feature film released in 3-D.[19]
December
- December 10: Bugs Bunny receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[20]
- December 11: The third Astérix film Asterix Versus Caesar is released.[21]
- December 14: The film Peter-No-Tail in Americat is released.[22]
Specific date unknown
- The computer animation company H.K. Screen Art is established in Hong Kong.
Films released
Television debuts
Births
March
- March 24: Jeremy Zag, French animator, entrepreneur, producer, director and music composer (Miraculous Ladybug).
June
- June 13: Julia Pott, British animator and voice actor (Summer Camp Island).
- June 18: Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor (Gravity Falls).
July
- July 2: Ashley Tisdale American actress and singer (voice of Candace Flynn on Phineas & Ferb).
Deaths
January
- January 25: Paul Smith, American composer (co-wrote the soundtrack to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella,...) dies at age 78.[23]
February
- February 20: Clarence Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck), dies at age 80.[24]
- February 27: J. Pat O'Malley, British actor (voice of Br'er Fox in Song of the South, Cyril Proudbottom, Winkie and a policeman in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Mother Oyster, The Walrus and the Carpenter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Alice in Wonderland, Jasper and the Colonel in 101 Dalmatians, the Cockney coster in Mary Poppins, Colonel Hathi in The Jungle Book), dies at age 80.[25]
March
- March 21: Michael Redgrave, British actor and director (the narrator in A Christmas Carol), dies at age 77.[26]
- March 24: Dick Kinney, American animator, screenwriter (Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, Terrytoons, Hanna-Barbera) and comics writer, dies at age 68.[27]
- March 30: Harold Peary, American actor and comedian (voice of Fenwick Fuddy on The Galloping Ghost, and Yogi's Space Race, Big Ben in Rudolph's Shiny New Year, and Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July), dies at age 76.
April
- April 5: Hannes Schroll, Austrian skier and yodeller (creator of the Goofy holler sound effect), dies at age 76.[28][29]
- April 25: Richard Haydn, British comic actor (voice of the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 80.[30]
May
- May 22: Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator and director (one of Disney's Nine Old Men), passes away at age 75.[31][32]
August
- August 2: Bob Holt, American voice actor (voice of Hoot Kloot, voice of Avatar in Wizards), dies at age 56.[33]
- August 25: Pino Zac, Italian illustrator, comics artist and animator, dies at age 55.[34]
- August 29: Paul Kligman, Romanian-born Canadian actor (voiced J Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man, and Donner in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), dies at age 62.
October
- October 10: Orson Welles, American theatre director, film director, actor and voice actor (narrator and voice of Nag and Chuchundra in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, narrator in Bugs Bunny: Superstar, voice of Unicron in The Transformers: The Movie), dies at age 70.[35]
November
- November 6: Viktor Kálmán, aka Victor Vashi, Hungarian painter, animator and comics artist (Az Okos Kapus), dies at age 74. [36]
- November 16: Lou Fleischer, American composer (soundtrack of the Fleischer Studios cartoons) and voice actor (J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye cartoon I Wanna Be A Lifeguard), dies at age 94.[37]
- November 29: Bill Scott, American voice actor (voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose, Mister Peabody, Dudley Do-Right, Super Chicken and George of the Jungle, voice of Moosel in The Wuzzles, Gruffi Gummi, Sir Tuxford, Toadwart in Gummi Bears), dies at age 65 from a heart attack.[38]
December
- December 19: Jean Ache/Jean Huet, French animator and comics artist (L'Émule de Tartarin, Callisto le petite nymphe, Anatole Fait Du Camping), passes away at age 62.[39]
- December 25: Joe Oriolo, American animated film director, animated film producer and writer (co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost and the Felix the Cat animated TV show, worked for Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), passes away at age 72.[40][41][42]
- Specific date in December unknown: Margie Hines, American voice actress (original voice of Betty Boop, occasional voice of Olive Oyl and Swee'Pea in Popeye), dies at age 76.
Specific date unknown
- Antoine Payen, French animator and illustrator (Les Enfants du Ciel, Cri-Cri, Ludo et l'orage), dies at age 82 or 83.[43]
- Roberto Sgrilli, Italian painter, illustrator, comics artist and animator (Il Barone di Münchhausen, Anacleto e la Faina), dies at age 87 or 88.[44]
See also
References
- IMDb title|0088631
- "The Adventures of Mark Twain". 26 July 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "David the Gnome". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Care Bears Movie". 29 March 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- "The Pied Piper". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Big Snit (1985) - IMDb". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Raccoons". 4 July 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- The Black Cauldron at IMDb
- "Ewoks". 7 September 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Star Wars: Droids". 7 September 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling". 14 September 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- IMDb title|id=0088643|title=The Wuzzles
- IMDb title|id= 0088528|title=Adventures of the Gummi Bears
- "Care Bears". 13 September 1986. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Seabert". 3 October 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer". 15 November 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Starchaser: The Legend of Orin". 22 November 1985. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bugs Bunny". Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- "Asterix and Caesar (1985) - IMDb". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Peter-No-Tail in America". 19 February 1986. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Paul J. Smith". IMDb. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Walt Disney Legends: Clarence Nash" Walt Disney Official Fan Club website (Note: Source is behind a paywall.)
- "J. Pat O'Malley". IMDb. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Michael Redgrave". IMDb. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Dick Kinney | I.N.D.U.C.K.S." inducks.org. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Maud Hill Schroll". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- "Austrian Skier Hannes Schroll". Gettysburg Times. April 8, 1985. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
- "Richard Haydn". IMDb. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Wolfgang Reitherman". D23. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
- Folkart, Burt (May 24, 1985). "Wolfgang Reitherman, 75: Disney Animator Dies in Car Crash". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
- 1985 in animation at IMDb
- "Pino Zac". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Orson Welles". IMDb. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Victor Vashi".
- Pointer, Ray (Jan 10, 2017). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland. ISBN 9781476663678. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via Google Books.
- "Bill Scott, Writer and Voice For 'Rocky and His Friends'". The New York Times. United Press International. December 2, 1985.
- "Jean Ache". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Joseph Oriolo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Man Who Produced First 'Casper' Ghost Film Dies". Articles.latimes.com. 1985-12-27. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- "Lives Well Lived". NYTimes.com. 1995-01-22. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- "Antoine Payen - Dessins animés". antoinepayen.free.fr. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Roberto Sgrilli".
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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