Fred Wolf (Animator)

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Fredrick W. Wolf (* 1932 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American animator , film director , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Wolf began his career as an animator in the television series The Alvin Show by Ross Bagdasarian . In 1964 he worked as an animator on the Hanna Babera production Yogi Bear's Adventure . That same year, he led the first time directing a animation - short film . For his second film The Box , he received an Oscar in 1967 . The following year he founded the production company Murakami-Wolf Films with Jimmy T. Murakami . In 1971, The Point! the first animated cartoon starring Dustin Hoffman to be made for televisionproduced as a narrator. After a third partner, Charles Swenson, joined the company in the meantime, Wolf has been running the company alone since 1992.

Wolf had worked for Disney since the mid-1980s , and was involved as a director and producer on the series DuckTales - Neues aus Duckburg , for which he received an Emmy nomination. He also shot a pilot for the Disney Talking Dog series , which was never realized. His other productions during this period included the animated series James Bond Jr. and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . Wolf also worked on the scripts for the latter. In the 1990s he produced two films from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series , as well as Budgie the Little Helicopter based on the stories by Sarah Ferguson .

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script

  • 1964: The Bird
  • 1988: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

animation

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Fredrick W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animator, film director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City