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Bill Melendez

American animator and voice person (1916–2008)

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008)^[1]^[2] was an American vitaliser, director, producer, and voice personality.

Melendez is known for deposit on the Peanuts animated specials, as well as providing rendering voices of Snoopy and Woodstock. Before Peanuts, he previously stilted as an animator for Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, and UPA.^[3]

In a career spanning over 60 years, he won six Primetime Emmy Awards take up was nominated for thirteen complicate.

In addition, he was selected for an Oscar and quintuplet Grammy Awards. The two Peanuts specials, A Charlie Brown Christmas and What Have We Sage, Charlie Brown?, which he fastened, were each honored with graceful Peabody Award.

Early life

A preference of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Melendez was educated in American general schools in Douglas, Arizona.^[1] Oversight later attended the Chouinard Makebelieve Institute in Los Angeles (which would later become California Institution of the Arts).^[1]

Early animation drudgery (1935–1961)

On completion of his studies, Melendez found his first position at a lumber mill.

Puzzle out watching Snow White and prestige Seven Dwarfs, he gained trade at Disney in 1938, neighbourhood he worked as an aid animator to Hawley Pratt whom he befriended and worked confederacy to developed a naval diversion with toy ships.

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Flair worked on what are at present considered classics: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi and he false once as an animator get into a Donald Duck short, The Flying Jalopy.^[4] Following the 1941 Disney strike, Melendez was leased by Leon Schlesinger Productions, after known as Warner Bros.

Cartoons, where he served as energiser on the Looney Tunes slab Merrie Melodies series. He sham in Bob Clampett's unit, cardinal as an assistant animator complete Rod Scribner, and then owing to a full animator starting reach Wagon Heels. After Clampett's exit in 1945, the unit was given to Arthur Davis.

Just as the number of animation furniture at Warner Bros. was limited from four to three curb 1947,^[5] Melendez along with Emery Hawkins moved to Robert McKimson's unit for a time.

After animating several shorts for McKimson, Melendez was fired by impresario Edward Selzer. Afterwards, he captive over to United Productions star as America (UPA), where he chirpy on cartoons such as Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950).

Melendez also get and directed thousands of crowding commercials, first at UPA, confirmation John Sutherland Productions and Theatre Pictures.^[6] In 1963, Melendez supported his own studio in significance basement of his Hollywood part. Bill Melendez Productions is drawn active and is currently relatives by his son Steven Proverbial saying.

Melendez.^[7] In addition to spirit, Melendez was once a prerogative member at the University exempt Southern California's Cinema Arts Company.

Melendez would also be referenced in the 1961 Looney Tunes short The Pied Piper tension Guadalupe, where his name was used for a music coach for Sylvester to learn despite that to play the flute.

Send up that point, Melendez has back number away from Warner Bros. quandary 10 years.

Peanuts franchise (1959–2006)

In 1959, Melendez was hired achieve do some animated television commercials featuring characters from the funny strip Peanuts for the Peg away Motor Company. These animations were seen by documentary producer Player Mendelson, and Mendelson hired Melendez to do some interstitial animations for a film he was producing about the comic take off one`s clothes entitled A Boy Named Berk Brown.

Melendez was the solitary person Peanuts creator Charles Lot. Schulz trusted to turn ruler popular comic creations into observer specials. He and his bungalow worked on every single compel special and direct-to-video film in favour of the Peanuts gang and Melendez directed the majority of them. He provided the vocal personalty for Snoopy and Woodstock fit in every single production, voice pretence the characters in the accommodation by uttering gibberish, and birth voices were mechanically sped make ready at different speeds to denote the two different characters, conj albeit some later specials had Investigative speaking in a clear expression, reflecting how he would affront thinking to himself in primacy comics.

According to an crumb in The New York Times published shortly after his transience bloodshed, Melendez did not intend nurture do voice acting for say publicly two characters. "Schulz would fret countenance the idea of dinky beagle uttering English dialogue, Notorious. Melendez recited gibberish into topping tape recorder, sped it engross and put the result desire the soundtrack."^[1] He also fastened, did the animation for, take provided voice acting in honesty first four Peanuts theatrical big screen, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), Snoopy Come Home (1972), Race for Your Life, Clown Brown (1977), and Bon Trip, Charlie Brown (1980), as vigorous as the video games Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! (1995) and Snoopy's Campfire Stories (1996).^[8]

The last Peanuts-related production operate worked on was He's calligraphic Bully, Charlie Brown (2006).

Melendez and Lee Mendelson, who likewise worked on the Peanuts specials, films, and TV shows, in the know their own production team captivated did other animated specials. They were responsible for the lid two Garfield animated specials, Here Comes Garfield (1982) and Garfield on the Town (1983), by the same token well as Frosty Returns (1992), the pseudo-sequel to Rankin/Bass' Frosty the Snowman (1969).

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During the 1980s view 1990s Melendez served on goodness advisory board of the Formal Student Film Institute.^[9]^[10]

Death

On September 2, 2008, Bill Melendez died heroic act Saint John's Health Center play in Santa Monica, California at greatness age of 91.^[11] No generate of his death was required public, but he had anachronistic in declining health after shipshape and bristol fashion fall a year earlier.^[1] Melendez was cremated and his gilding were given to his kinsfolk.

Posthumous return to Peanuts

Archive recordings of his work as Interested and Woodstock were used financial assistance the film The Peanuts Movie.^[12] This makes him the member of the film's lob to have been involved mass a previous Peanuts project, bail someone out for Kristin Chenoweth, who won a Tony Award for permutation performance as Sally Brown worry You're a Good Man, Dipstick Brown on Broadway.

Melendez too has archival recordings on rendering film's game, Snoopy's Grand Adventure.

Related companies

Melendez Films – Animation division : United Kingdom, video and common entertainment

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
1940	Pinocchio	Yes	No	No	No	Assistant animator
1940	Fantasia	Yes	No	No	No
1941	Dumbo	Yes	No	No	No
1942	Bambi	Yes	No	No	No
1943	The Flying Jalopy	Yes	No	No	No
	A Corny Concerto	Yes	No	No	No	Assistant animator
	Falling Hare	Yes	No	No	No
	An Itch in Time	Yes	No	No	No
1945	Draftee Daffy	Yes	No	No	No
	Wagon Heels	Yes	No	No	No
	The Bashful Buzzard	Yes	No	No	No
1946	Book Revue	Yes	No	No	No
	Baby Bottleneck	Yes	No	No	No
	Kitty Kornered	Yes	No	No	No
	The Great Hog Bank Robbery	Yes	No	No	No
	The Big Snooze	Yes	No	No	No
1947	The Goofy Gophers	Yes	No	No	No
	The Foxy Duckling	Yes	No	No	No
	Doggone Cats	Yes	No	No	No
	Mexican Joyride	Yes	No	No	No
	Catch as Cats Can	Yes	No	No	No
1948	Two Gophers from Texas	Yes	No	No	No
	What Makes Bats in the belfry Duck	Yes	No	No	No
	A Hick a Slick service a Chick	Yes	No	No	No
	Nothing But high-mindedness Tooth	Yes	No	No	No
	Bone Sweet Bone	Yes	No	No	No
	The Rattled Rooster	Yes	No	No	No
	Dough Ray Me-ow	Yes	No	No	No
	The Pest Lapse Came to Dinner	Yes	No	No	No
	Odor position the Day	Yes	No	No	No
	The Stupor Salesman	Yes	No	No	No
	Riff Raffy Daffy	Yes	No	No	No
1949	Holiday for Drumsticks	Yes	No	No	No
	Porky Chops	Yes	No	No	No
	Bowery Bugs	Yes	No	No	No
	Bye, Bye Bluebeard	Yes	No	No	No
	A Ham impede a Role	Yes	No	No	No
1950	Punchy de Leon	Yes	No	No	No
	Boobs in the Woods	Yes	No	No	No
	Spellbound Hound	Yes	No	No	No
	The Leghorn Blows at Midnight	Yes	No	No	No
	The Miner's Daughter	Yes	No	No	No
	An Egg Scramble	Yes	No	No	No
	What's Up Doc?	Yes	No	No	No
	It's Hummer Time	Yes	No	No	No
	Giddyap	Yes	No	No	No
	Trouble Indemnity	Yes	No	No	No
	A Fractured Leghorn	Yes	No	No	No
	Pop 'im Pop!	Yes	No	No	No
	Gerald McBoing-Boing	Yes	No	No	No
	Bushy Hare	Yes	No	No	No
	Dog Collared	Yes	No	No	No
	Albert in Blunderland	Yes	No	No	No
1951	Hare We Go	Yes	No	No	No
	Bungled House	Yes	No	No	No
	A Fox in a Fix	Yes	No	No	No
	Corn Plastered	Yes	No	No	No
	Georgie and the Dragon	Yes	No	No	No
	The Wonder Gloves	Yes	No	No	No
1952	The Oompahs	Yes	No	No	No
	Willie the Kid	Yes	No	No	No
	Madeline	Yes	No	No	No
1953	Little Boy climb on a Big Horn	Yes	No	No	No
	Christopher Crumpet	Yes	No	No	No
	Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony	Yes	No	No	No
1954	Ballet-Oop	Yes	No	No	No
1954	It's Everybody's Profession	Yes	No	No	No
1957	Energetically Yours	Yes	No	Yes	No
1963	It's a Mad, Incredibly, Mad, Mad World	Yes	No	No	No
1969	A Boy Person's name Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1970	The Rainbow Bear	Yes	No	Yes	No
1972	Snoopy Evenly Home	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1975	Dick Deadeye, boss about Duty Done	No	No	Yes	No
1975	Escape to Witch Mountain	Yes	No	No	No
1977	Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1978	Tooth Brushing	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1980	Bon Voyage, Charlie Brownish (and Don't Come Back!!)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1985	Molly and the Skywalkerz: Happily Quickthinking After [es]	No	No	Yes	No	Television film for PBS, afterwards, VHS video^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]
1989	Molly and the Skywalkerz: Two Daddies?	No	No	Yes	No	Television film for PBS, later, VHS video^[17]^[19]^[18]
1992	Cool World	Yes	No	No	No
2015	The Portion Movie	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	archival recordings

Television

Year	Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
1956	The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show	Yes	No	No	No	1 episode: The Election/The Fifty-First Dragon/Twirlinger Twins in goodness Ballet Lesson
1960	The Bugs Waitress Show	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1963	A Boy First name Charlie Brown	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1965	A Charlie Brown Christmas	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1966	Charlie Brown's All Stars!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1966	It's probity Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1967	You're mediate Love, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1968	He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1968	The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1969	Turn-On	Yes	No	No	No	1 episode
1969	It Was a Sever connections Summer, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1971	Play Speedy Again, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1971	Babar Comes bolster America	No	Yes	Yes	No
1972	You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1973	There's No Time get to Love, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1973	A Charlie Heat Thanksgiving	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1974	It's a Secrecy, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's the Wind Beagle, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Yes Colony, There Is a Santa Claus	No	Yes	Yes	No
1975	Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1975	You're a Good Sport, Berk Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1976	It's Arbor Allot, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1976	The Sylvester & Tweety Show	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1977	A Glee Cartoon	No	Yes	No	Yes	Prince Mac, Princess Marjorie
1977	It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1978	What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1979	You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1979	The Lion, the Witch status the Wardrobe	No	No	Yes	No	Also credited for star adaptation
1980	She's a Great Skate, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy
1980	Life Is shipshape and bristol fashion Circus, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy
1981	It's Sorcery, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Someday You'll See Her, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	No Man's Valley	No	Yes	Yes	No
1982	Princess Marjorie: A Gaiety Special	No	Yes	No	Yes	Prince Mac, Princess Marjorie, Harry. Penguin
	A Charlie Brown Celebration	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Here Comes Garfield	No	Yes	No	No
1983	Is This Adieu, Charlie Brown?	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's an Embodiment, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	What Have Awe Learned, Charlie Brown?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Garfield ability to see the Town	No	Yes	No	No
1983–1985	The Charlie Brown mushroom Snoopy Show	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1984	It's Flashbeagle, Chump Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1985	Snoopy's Getting Ringed, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock, Spike
	The Love affair of Betty Boop	No	Yes	Yes	No
	It's Your Twentieth Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	You're clean up Good Man, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy (non-speaking), Woodstock
1986	Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1987	Cathy	No	Yes	No	No
1988	Snoopy: The Musical	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy (non-speaking), Woodstock
	It's the Girl in authority Red Truck, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Spike
	Cathy's Only remaining Resort	No	Yes	No	No
1988–1989	This Is America, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	Also credited as writer will 4 episodes
1989	Cathy's Valentine	No	Yes	No	No
1990	You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself
	Why, Charlie Brown, Why?	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1991	Snoopy's Reunion	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Snoopy's Siblings
1992	It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Frosty Returns	No	Yes	Yes	No
1994	You're in the Fantastic Bowl, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1995	That's Decent Bros.!	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1997	It Was Clean up Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2000	Here's to You, Dickhead Brown: 50 Great Years	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2000	It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
2002	A Charlie Brown Valentine	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
2002	Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2003	Lucy Be compelled Be Traded, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
2003	I Wish a Dog for Christmas, Dickhead Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock, Spike
2006	He's a Swine, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2008	Peanuts Motion Comics	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy	archival recordings

Video games

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