Fred Wolf (Animator)
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 .
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1964: The Bird
- 1967: The Box
- 1986: Disney's Talking Dogs (Fluppy Dogs)
- 1987: DuckTales - News from Duckburg (DuckTales)
production
- 1967: The Box
- 1986: Disney's Talking Dogs (Fluppy Dogs)
- 1987: DuckTales - News from Duckburg (DuckTales)
- 1987: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- 1988: Alvin and the Chipmunks (Alvin and the Chipmunks)
- 1991: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids
- 1991: James Bond Jr.
- 1994: Budgie the Little Helicopter
- 1998: The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
script
- 1964: The Bird
- 1988: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
animation
- 1961: The Alvin Show
- 1964: Yogi Bear's Adventure (Hey There, It's Yogi Bear)
- 1967: The Box
- 1971: The Point!
- 1977: The Mouse and His Child
- 1978: Puff, the Magic Dragon
- 1983: The Great Bear Scare
Awards (selection)
Web links
- Fred Wolf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
personal data | |
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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 |