Fred Wolf (animator)
Fred Wolf ( born 1932 in Brooklyn, New York City ), actually Fredrick W. Wolf, is an American animator, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Life
Wolf began his career as an animator on the television series The Alvin Show by Ross Bagdasarian. In 1964, he worked as an animator at Hanna - Babera production Yogi Bear's adventures. In the same year he directed her first in an animated short film. For his second film, The Box 1967 he received an Oscar. The following year he co-founded with Jimmy T. Murakami production company Murakami - Wolf Films. 1971 The Point of the first made for TV animated film with Dustin Hoffman was produced as a narrator. After the meantime with Charles Swenson, a third partner was entered, Wolf, the company operates since 1992 alone.
Since the mid- 1980s, Wolf worked for Disney, and was a director and producer on the series DuckTales - participated News from Duckburg, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He also filmed a pilot for the series Disney's talking dogs, but this was not realized. His other productions of this time included the cartoon series James Bond Jr. and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. At the latter Wolf also participated on the scripts. In the 1990s he produced two films from the series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as Budgie the Little Helicopter by the stories of Sarah Ferguson.