1987 in animation
Events in 1987 in animation.
Events
January
March
- March 12: The first episode of Ovide and the Gang is broadcast. [3]
- March 30: 59th Academy Awards: A Greek Tragedy by Nicole van Goethem wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [4]
April
- April 7: The first episode of Ox Tales airs, based on the Dutch comic strip Boes. [5]
- April 19: The Simpsons first airs on U.S. television as a series of shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show. [6] This marks the debuts of Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Lisa Simpson and Maggie Simpson.
- Specific date unknown: The first episode of The Shoe People is broadcast. [7]
May
- May 13: Frédéric Back's The Man Who Planted Trees is first released. [8]
June
- June 28: Snow White receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [9]
July
- July 10: The Brave Little Toaster is first released. [10]
September
- September 12: The first episode of Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series airs. [11]
- September 15: The first episode of The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin is broadcast. [12]
- September 18: The first episode of DuckTales is broadcast. [13]
- September 19: The first episode of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures is broadcast. [14]
- September 22: The first episode of ALF: The Animated Series is broadcast, a spin-off of the live-action sitcom ALF. [15]
October
November
- November 15: A cross-over episode The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is broadcast. [17]
- November 17: The first episode of Fireman Sam is broadcast. [18]
December
- December 28: The first episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles airs. [19]
Specific date unknown
- The first Disney Legends are handed out.
Awards
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival Grand prix du long métrage: When the Wind Blows.[20]
Films released
Television series
Births
- July 9: Rebecca Sugar, American animator (Steven Universe).
Deaths
January
- January 26: Charles Wolcott, American composer (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 80.[21]
- January 27: Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animated film director and producer (Neighbours, Rythmetic, Blinkity Blank, Pas de deux), dies at age 72. [22]
- January 31: Julian Antonisz, Polish film director and animated film director (Sun: A Non-Camera Film 1977, aka Słońce - film bez kamery), dies at age 45. [23]
March
- March 22: Ib Steinaa, Danish comics artist and animator (Robinson Columbus), dies at age 60. [24]
- March 25: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Russian animator (Black and White, Moidodyr, The Humpbacked Horse, The Snow Maiden, The Twelve Months, The Adventures of Buratino, Lefty, Go There, Don't Know Where, The Battle of Kerzhenets, The Humpbacked Horse, The Tale of Tsar Saltan), dies at age 87. [25]
April
- April 1: Vladimir Popov, Russian animator, animated film director and art director (Three from Prostokvashino), dies at age 56. [26]
- April 19: Milt Kahl, American animator (one of Disney's Nine Old Men), dies at age 78. [27]
May
- May 3: Dick Kelsey, American animated film director and theme park designer (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 82.
June
- June 1: Jef Cassiers, Belgian actor, comedian, animator and film director (directed Jan Zonder Vrees (John the Fearless)), dies at age 57. [28]
- June 13: Geraldine Page, American actress (voice of Madame Medusa in The Rescuers), dies at age 62.
- June 28: Lev Milchin, Russian animated film director and illustrator (The Tale of Tsar Saltan), dies at age 66. [29]
July
- July 1: Jerry Livingston, American songwriter (the theme song of The Bugs Bunny Show and Casper the Friendly Ghost, co-writer of Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo in Cinderella), dies at age 78. [30]
- July 26: Kenneth Muse, American animator (Walt Disney Company, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, the dance sequence between Jerry and Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh), dies at age 77. [31]
September
- September 22: Carman Maxwell, American animator, production manager and voice actor (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation Studio), dies at age 84.
November
- November 11: John N. Carey, American animator and comics artist (Warner Bros. Animation), passes away at age 72. [32]
- November 19: Ben Clopton, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Harman-Ising, Ub Iwerks, Walter Lantz, Fleischer Studios), dies at age 81.
December
- December 13: Claude T. Smith, American composer (wrote music for John Henry and the Inky-Poo), dies at age 55. [33]
- December 22: José do Patrocínio Oliveira, Brazilian singer, musician and voice actor (voice of Joe Carioca in Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros), dies at age 83.
- December 24: Betty Noyes, American actress and singer (sang Baby Mine in Dumbo, voice of Lady Fish in The Incredible Mr. Limpet), dies at age 75.>
Specific date unknown
- Lenn Redman, American caricaturist, animator, novelist, poet, illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and activist (Warner Brothers Animation, Walt Disney Company, Filmation, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 74 or 75. [34]
See also
References
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- "Il était une fois... la vie". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
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- "Boes". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Matt Groening". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "The Shoe People". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
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- "Snow White". Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- The Brave Little Toaster on IMDb
- "Fraggle Rock". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "DuckTales". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "A.L.F." Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Planète Jeunesse - Bogus". www.planete-jeunesse.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Fireman Sam". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
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- https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/30/obituaries/charles-f-wolcott-80-disney-film-composer.html
- 1976-, Dobson, Nichola (January 25, 2018). Norman McLaren : between the frames. New York. ISBN 9781501328794. OCLC 1015372165.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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- "Московские могилы. Попов В.И." www.moscow-tombs.ru. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
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- "Jerry Livingston Dies; Wrote 'Mairzy Doats'". The New York Times. July 10, 1987. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
Jerry Livingston, the composer of Mairzy Doats, The 12th of Never, Talk of the Town and many other songs, died of a heart condition July 1 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 78 years old. Mr. Livingston, whose name was originally Jerry Levinson, was born in Denver.
- "Kenneth L. Muse Dies at 75; Animator for Major Studios". July 30, 1987. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via NYTimes.com.
- "John N. Carey". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
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