Deadline<\/a><\/em>. Jean Nicole Bass was his only child, and he died January at the age 61.<\/p>\nThe animator was a Philadelphia native who was born September 16, 1935. He was also edited at New York University. In 1960, he was working as an advertising executive when Rankin\/Bass Productions was founded with Rankin. They started with the traditionally-animated series Pinocchio’s Adventures <\/em>1960. Four years later, they achieved their greatest success with Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>The stop-motion special is based on the Johnny Marks song. The special is a perennial classic\u00a0and now airs on CBS during the holiday season.<\/p>\nThe success of Rudolph\u00a0<\/em>Rankin\/Bass was the premier studio for Christmas specials. They produced many more.The Little Drummer Boy<\/em> (1968),Frosty the Snowman<\/em> (1969), The Year Without a Santa Claus <\/em>(1974), Rudolph and Frosty celebrate Christmas in July<\/em>(1980), Santa Claus’ Adventures and Life<\/em> (1985). (1985).<\/p>\nRankin and Bass have also explored other subjects. Mad Monster Party<\/em> (1967), a theatrically-released movie with the voices of Phyllis Diller and Boris Karloff, and the Easter specialPeter Cottontail arrives!<\/em> (1971). They also produced several animation hits during Saturday morning cartoon boom. Silverhawks, Thundercats, <\/em>And The Jackson 5ive<\/em>.<\/p>\nOne of J.R.R.’s first adaptations was produced by Rankin and Bas in 1977. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth stories. They directed The Hobbit<\/em>The film won Romeo Muller the Peabody Award for screenwriter. A follow-up was released in 1980. The Return of the King<\/em>The final material was adapted by, Lord of the Rings<\/em> book. It was broadcast on ABC. Rankin\/Bass also produced a few theatrically-released films, their most famous being 1982’s The Last Unicorn<\/em>.<\/p>\nBass quit filmmaking in 1987 and continued to produce films for children. A series of books was written by Bass about Herb, the Vegetarian dragon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jules Bass, half of the producing team behind the famous Christmas specials Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer AndFrosty, the SnowmanBass has passed away. Bass was 87. He co-founded Rankin\/Bass Productions along with his friend. Arthur Rankin Jr.They produced more than a dozen animated TV shows together, from the 1960s up to the 1980s. Bass, who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":143520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jules-Bass-Director-of-Iconic-Christmas-Specials-Dead-at-87.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143521,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143519\/revisions\/143521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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