Biografie
Arthur Rankin Jr.
- Geboren am
- Verstorben30. Januar 2014 · Harrington Sound, Bermuda (natürliche Gründe)
- GeburtsnameArthur Gardner Rankin Jr.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. wurde am 19 Juli 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA geboren. Er war Produzent und Regisseur, bekannt für Das letzte Einhorn (1982), Willy McBean and His Magic Machine (1965) und Der Hobbit (1977). Er war mit Olga Karlatos und Elizabeth Deland verheiratet. Er starb am 30 Januar 2014 in Harrington Sound, Bermuda.
- EhepartnerOlga Karlatos(1983 - 30. Januar 2014) (er verstorben, 2 Kinder)Elizabeth Deland(October 1947 - ?) (geschieden, 2 Kinder)
- KinderArthur Gardner Rankin IIITodd Fraser Rankin
- The characters in his stop motion works resemble dolls with spheroid body parts.
- Always worked with Jules Bass
- [stop-motion] Three fourths of his films and TV specials/shows used stop motion animation.
- Frequently casted Paul Frees.
- The narrators in his films would always appear on screen as a character and often do at least one song in the film.
- Son of actor/writer Arthur Rankin.
- Retired, living on Harrington Sound, Bermuda.
- He started out as an art director at ABC in the late 1940s, painting sets and doing graphic design.
- Survived by his wife Olga, and by sons Gardner (full name: Arthur Gardner Rankin III) and Todd Rankin.
- Grandson of Harry Davenport and Phyllis Franklin. Great-grandson of McKee Rankin. Half-nephew of Dorothy Davenport and Wallace Reid, half-cousin of Wallace Reid Jr..
- It's hard to be good at anything. If you're passionate, the chances are that you will find a job that will make you happy.
- In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
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