Ralph Bakshi

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Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938 in Haifa , Palestine , now Israel ) is an American film director who produced mainly cartoons for an adult audience and occasionally other feature films, most recently mostly for television formats.

Bakshi came from a krimtschakischen family that had immigrated to Haifa, but in 1939 in York New District Brooklyn moved.

In 1967 Bakshi became the producer and director of Paramount Cartoon Studios. His first feature film, an animation version of the comic book Fritz the Cat , was a box-office hit in 1972. The film achieved cult status, but the author Robert Crumb clearly distanced himself from the film adaptation of his work.

Two other adult cartoons from his workshop, Heavy Traffic (1973) and Coonskin (1974), which dealt with the theme of the black America , received much praise from film critics.

In 1977 he shot the first theatrical version of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a cartoon using the elaborate rotoscoping process : Real actors were filmed and then overdrawn frame by frame. The film became a financial success, but received mixed reactions from film critics.

Bakshi tried his hand at a mixture of animated films and real film scenes in several films; While these were still visually separated in Heavy Traffic , Brad Pitt acted in Cool World in 1992 as a real actor within a cartoon environment.

Bakshi has worked primarily for US television in recent years, producing a short-lived television series called Spicy City in 1997 .

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SURNAME Bakshi, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa