1985 in animation

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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]

October[]

• October 3: The first episode of Seabert airs.^[17]

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 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 (creator of Gravity Falls).

July[]

• July 2: Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer (voice of Candace Flynn in Phineas & Ferb).

September[]

• September 6: Lauren Lapkus, American actress (voice of Matilda in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Patience St. Pim in Adventure Time, Mackenzie in Craig of the Creek, Lotta in Harvey Girls Forever!, Jennifer Sh'reyan in Star Trek: Lower Decks).

October[]

• October 3: T.J. Hill, American composer (Fancy Nancy, Amphibia, The Owl House).

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]
• January 28: Don Raye, American songwriter Bambi, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 75.

February[]

• February 8: Marvin Miller, American actor (voice of Narrator in Gerald McBoing Boing, Mr. Sun in Our Mr. Sun, Hemo in Hemo the Magnificent, Narrator in Sleeping Beauty, Aquaman in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Busby Birdwell in Fantastic Voyage), dies at age 71.
• February 20: Clarence Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck), dies at age 80.^[24]
• February 27: J. Pat O'Malley, British actor (voice of 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 Herman in The Roman Holidays, Fenwick Fuddy in 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[]

• 1985 in anime

References[]

External links[]

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb