1969 in animation
| Years in animation: | 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Years: | 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 |
The year 1969 in animation involved some animation-related events.
Events[]
April[]
- April 14: 41st Academy Awards: The Walt Disney Company production Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day by Wolfgang Reitherman wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[1][2]
May[]
- May 24: Sugar, Sugar, a song from the animated TV series The Archies is released as a single and manages to become a surprise number one-hit in many countries.[3]
July[]
- June 1: The Woody Woodpecker cartoon Tumble Weed Greed by Paul J. Smith is released.[4]
- July 26: The last Looney Tunes theatrical animated short, Bugged by a Bee by Bob McKimson, is released.[5]
September[]
- September 6: The first episode of The Pink Panther Show airs.[6]
- September 13:
- The first episode of Hanna-Barbera's Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines airs.[7]
- The first episode of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiers on CBS Saturday Morning (1969-1970). The Scooby-Doo franchise will go on to become a major pop cultural icon, with numerous spin-offs, direct-to-video films, and two live-action films.[8]
- September 20: The last Merrie Melodies animated short, Injun Trouble, is released. Afterwards Warner Bros. Cartoons closes down.
October[]
- October 5:
- The first episode of Moomin, an anime TV series adaptation of Tove Jansson's novel series Moomins is broadcast in Japan.[9]
- The first episode of the British sketch TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus airs, which features surreal animated intermezzos, created by Terry Gilliam.[10]
- The first episode of Sazae-San airs and becomes the longest running animated TV series in the world. As of 2019 it's still on the air.[11]
November[]
- November 10: The first episode of Sesame Street airs on television, a live-action children's TV show with nevertheless a lot of animated intermezzos as well.
- November 12: Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert, an animated special based on the standup routines of Bill Cosby airs on NBC, it would later inspire the long-running animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
- November 16: Fyodor Khitruk's Winnie-the-Pooh is released.[12]
December[]
- December 4: Bill Melendez's A Boy Named Charlie Brown is released, the first animated feature based on Peanuts.[13]
- December 7: Rankin/Bass Productions releases their Christmas Special Frosty the Snowman, which becomes an annual tradition.
- December 10: The Walt Disney Company releases It's Tough to Be a Bird, directed by Ward Kimball.[14]
- December 13: Belvision releases Tintin and the Temple of the Sun by Eddie Lateste, an animated feature based on The Adventures of Tintin comic albums The Seven Crystal Balls (serialised 1943–1944, 1946–1948) and Prisoners of the Sun (serialised 1946-1948).[15]
Specific date unknown[]
- releases the animated film Mystery-Bouffe, which is banned by the Russian government outside of the Ukrainian SSR.[16]
- In the Soviet Union that year, the most popular Soviet cartoon, Nu, pogodi! was released with its first episode.
- Marv Newland's Bambi Meets Godzilla is released.[17]
- Whitney Lee Savage's underground animated short Mickey Mouse in Vietnam is released.
- Jan Švankmajer's Don Juan and A Quiet Week in the House are released.
- Valentin Karavaev's Ded Moroz and Summer is released.
- Roman Davydov releases Adventures of Mowgli.
Films released[]
Television series debuts[]
Television series endings[]
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Births[]
January[]
- January 1: Mr. Lawrence, American animator, writer, producer, director, storyboard artist, designer, voice actor and comedian (voice of Filburt Shellbach and Peter Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life, Sheldon J. Plankton and Larry the Lobster in SpongeBob SquarePants and Edward Platypus and Dave & Ping-Pong in Camp Lazlo) (creator of The Fatheads and brother of Carolyn Lawrence).
- January 14: Kyōko Hikami, Japanese voice actress.
- January 22: Olivia d'Abo, British actress (voice of Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan, Melanie Walker/Ten, Star Sapphire, and Morgaine le Fey in the DC Animated Universe, Elasti-Girl in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Tak in Invader Zim, Luminara Unduli in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Natasha Romanova/Black Widow in Ultimate Avengers, and Ultimate Avengers 2).
- January 27: Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist.
February[]
- February 5: Derek Stephen Prince, American actor and voice actor.
- February 8: Karl Wiedergott, German-born American actor (The Simpsons).
- February 9: Tom Scharpling, American comedian, television writer, producer, music video director, voice actor and radio host (voice of Greg Universe in Steven Universe, Steven Universe: The Movie, and Steven Universe Future).
- February 14: Rosto, Dutch animator and film director (The Monster of Nix, No Place Like Home, Lonely Bones, Splintertime), (d. 2019).[18]
- February 26: Christine Auten, American voice actress
March[]
- March 8: Don Hall, American director, animator and screenwriter.
- March 12: Paget Brewster, American actress and singer (voice of Della Duck on DuckTales, Birdgirl on Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, and Birdgirl).
- March 20: Elliot M. Bour, American director, animator and story artist working in film, television and commercials.
April[]
- April 28: Blake Neely, American composer, arranger and conductor.
May[]
- May 7: Jun Falkenstein, American female animation director, writer, and storyboard artist (The Tigger Movie).
- May 15: Kirk DeMicco, American screenwriter, animator, director and producer.
- May 19: Dan Lee, Canadian-born American animator and designer (Finding Nemo), (d. 2005).
June[]
- June 13: Scott Page-Pagter, American voice actor, television producer, composer, sound effects artist and voice director (Saban Entertainment), (d. 2021).[19]
- June 16: Sam Register, American film and television producer and businessman.
July[]
- July 7: Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and singer (voice of Penny in Inspector Gadget, Elmyra Duff in Tiny Toon Adventures, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Susie Carmichael in Rugrats, Miranda in As Told By Ginger, Maxine "Max" Gibson in Batman Beyond, Kida in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Numbuh 5, Cree, and The Delightful Children from Down the Lane in Codename: Kids Next Door).
- July 13: Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian and voice actor.
- July 19: Ash Brannon, American animator, designer, storyboard artist, writer, and director.
- July 22: James Arnold Taylor, American voice actor (voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the title character in Johnny Test).
- July 24: Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer.
August[]
- August 6:
- Jonathan Aibel, American screenwriter and producer (King of the Hill, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Kung Fu Panda 2, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Kung Fu Panda 3, Trolls World Tour, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run).
- Naomi Ishida, Japanese color designer (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, A Silent Voice) and member of Kyoto Animation, (d. 2019) in the Kyoto Animation arson attack.[20]
- August 10: Brian Drummond, Canadian voice actor (voice of Vegeta in The Ocean Dub of Dragon Ball Z, Ryuk in Death Note, Zechs Merquise in Gundam Wing, Filthy Rich on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic).
- August 14: Meghan Strange, American actress, voice actress and singer.
- August 16: Kate Higgins, American voice actress.
- August 18: Christian Slater, American actor, voice actor and producer.
- August 20: Ken Bruce, American animator (The Simpsons, Box-Office Bunny, FernGully: The Last Rainforest), sheet timer (Duckman, 3-South, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Cartoon Network Studios, Family Guy) and director (The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy).
- August 24: Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor and voice actor
- August 26: Glenn Berger, American screenwriter and producer (King of the Hill, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Kung Fu Panda 2, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Kung Fu Panda 3, Trolls World Tour, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run).
- August 28: Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician and songwriter (voice of Zeke in Ice Age, The Pusher/Larry Hardcore in the Clone High episode Raisin the Stakes, Lenny in Shark Tale, Trapper JB in the Tom Goes to the Mayor episode Bear Traps, Milo in The Simpsons episode Husbands and Knives, Po in Kung Fu Panda, Slappy and the Invisible Boy in Goosebumps, Brad Gunther in Big Nate, Bowser in Untitled Mario film).
- August 30: Kent Osborne, American screenwriter, actor, producer, director, and storyboard artist for film and television.
September[]
- September 3: Noah Baumbach, American film director, screenwriter and producer.
October[]
- October 3: Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress, and television host.
- October 19: Trey Parker, American animator, film director, voice actor, comedian and television producer (South Park).
- October 25: Nika Futterman, American actress and voice actress (voice of Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Luna Loud in The Loud House).
- October 31: David Coburn, American actor (voice of Captain Planet in Captain Planet and the Planeteers).
November[]
- November 22: Marjane Satrapi, Iranian born French graphic novelist and filmmaker (co-directed Persepolis).
December[]
- December 4: J. Stewart Burns, American television writer and producer (The Simpsons, Futurama).
- December 6: Irene Grandi, Italian singer-songwriter, actress and voice actress.
Specific date unknown[]
- Micah Wright, American television writer (The Angry Beavers).
- Renaud Mader, French comics artist and animator (Gaumont, Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1993).[21]
Deaths[]
January[]
- January 7: Earl Duvall, American animator, gag writer, lay-out artist, director and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Ub Iwerks, directed the first Warners colour cartoon Honeymoon Hotel), dies at age 70.[22]
February[]
- February 2: Boris Karloff, British actor (narrator and voice of The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas), dies at age 81.
- February 14: Charles Judels, Dutch-American actor (voice of the chicken farmer in Porky's Garden and Stromboli and The Coachman in Pinocchio), dies at age 86.
- February 19: Madge Blake, American actress (model for Fauna in Sleeping Beauty), dies at age 69.
June[]
- June 1: Frank Braxton, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Jay Ward, UPA, Peanuts specials), dies at age 40 from cancer.
July[]
- July 4: Ted Eshbaugh, Canadian animator and film director (Goofy Goat Antics, The Wizard of Oz, The Sunshine Makers, The White Guard), dies at age 63.
- July 21: Pete Burness, American animator and animation director (Romer Grey, Van Beuren Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM, UPA, Jay Ward Productions), dies from cancer at age 65.[23]
September[]
- September 8: Bud Collyer, American actor (voice of Superman in Superman), dies at age 61.[24]
- September 19: Rex Ingram, American actor (narrator in John Henry and the Inky-Poo), dies at age 73.[25][26]
December[]
- December 10: Leigh Harline, American songwriter and composer (co-wrote the soundtrack of The Goddess of Spring, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio), dies at age 62 from throat cancer.
- December 19: Sara Berner, American actress (original voice of Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Red in Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and Swing Shift Cinderella, the canary in King-Size Canary and the mother of WB's Beaky Buzzard, Nancy in the Tom & Jerry cartoon Baby Puss, Toots in the Tom & Jerry cartoons The Zoot Cat and The Mouse Comes to Dinner, did celebrity voice impressions in several Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons), dies at age 57.
- December 30: Jiří Trnka, Czech puppeteer, illustrator, animator and film director (The Czech Year, The Emperor's Nightingale, Prince Bayaya, Old Czech Legends, The Good Soldier Schweik, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cybernetic Grandma), dies at age 57.
Specific date unknown[]
- Dan Gordon, American animator and storyboard artist (Van Beuren Studios, Terrytoons, Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, MGM, Hanna-Barbera) and comics artist, dies at an unknown age.[27]
See also[]
Sources[]
- ^ "The Official Acadademy Awards® Database". Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
- ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- ^ "Sugar Sugar: The Birth of Bubblegum Pop – Various Artists – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- ^ "Tumble Weed Greed". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Bugged by a Bee". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Show". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Moomin (TV) - Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Terry Gilliam". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Guinness Certifies Sazae-san as Longest Running Animated Show - News". Anime News Network. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
- ^ "Winnie-the-Pooh". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "A Boy Named Charlie Brown". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "It's Tough to Be a Bird". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Tintin and the Temple of the Sun". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ Collection of Russian articles about the 1969 film, translated to English. Accessed on: Jan. 30, 2009.
- ^ Amazon.com: Bambi Meets Godzilla & Other Weird Cartoons VHS
- ^ "Regisseur en kunstenaar Rosto (50) overleden". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). March 10, 2019. Archived from the original on March 11, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ^ Mateo, Alex (December 6, 2021). "ADR Director, Writer, Producer Scott Page-Pagter Passes Away". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
- ^ 色彩担当・石田さんの死亡確認 両親「考えるだけで涙が止まらへん」 京アニ放火. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 24 July 2019. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Mad". lambiek.net. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ^ "Earl Duvall". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006), Who's Who in Animated Cartoons, Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation.
- ^ "Bud Collyer Dies; Host Of TV Shows; Ran 'Beat the Clock,' 'To Tell the Truth,' 'Break the Bank'", The New York Times (September 9, 1969)
- ^ "Rex Ingrain, the Actor, Dies in Hollywood at 73. His Portrayal of De Lawd in 'Green Pastures' Hailed. Medical School Graduate". The New York Times. September 20, 1969. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ^ "Veteran Actor Rex Ingram Died of Heart Attack". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. 36 (26): 56. 1969-10-02.
- ^ "Dan Gordon". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
External links[]
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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