For anyone who grew up in the 1960s, '70s, or '80s, the mention of producer/director Jules Bass will no doubt spark the synapses to recall a warm, animated world where anything seemed possible. From television classics like Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and Frosty the Snowman to such memorable features as The Hobbit (1978) and The Last Unicorn (1982), it's virtually impossible to think back to these animated wonders of childhood without experiencing a warm wave of nostalgia. A Philadelphia native who received his education at N.Y.U., Bass had his first post-college job at a New York advertising agency, though his creative instincts were left markedly unfulfilled by the position. Bass soon took his future into his own hands, however, and co-founded a New York-based film production company with Arthur Rankin Jr. Their collaboration with Rankin/Bass musical composer/conductor Maury Laws led to such memorable songs as "The Heat Miser/Snow Miser Theme" and "Put One Frost in Front of the Other," with Bass himself serving as lyricist on many of the tunes. Taking the director's chair for such efforts as Mad Monster Party? (1967), The Little Drummer Boy (1968), Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976), and Pinocchio's Christmas (1980), Bass crafted some of the most warmhearted children's films of his generation. Although his activity on the small screen waned after the late '80s, Bass kept busy by penning a series of children's books based on the adventures of Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon and holding a series of children's cooking lessons in France to display the healthful nature of the herbivore creature's dining habits.
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Monte Carlo
Book Author |
2011 | |||
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The Year Without a Santa Claus
Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer |
2006 | |||
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Las Travesuras del Superchido
Director |
1990 | |||
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Johnny Appleseed / Paul Bunyan
Director |
198z | |||
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The Wind in the Willows
Director |
1987 | |||
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Thundercats: Season 02
Executive Producer |
1986 | |||
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Director, Producer |
1985 | |||
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Thundercats: Season 01
Executive Producer |
1985 | |||
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Beauty and the Beast
Producer |
1983 | |||
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Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July
Director |
1982 | |||
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The First Easter Rabbit
Director, Lyricist, Producer |
1982 | |||
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The Flight of Dragons
Director, Producer |
1982 | |||
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The Last Unicorn
Director, Producer |
1982 | |||
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The Sins of Dorian Gray
Composer (Music Score), Producer |
1982 | |||
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Leprechaun's Christmas Gold
Director |
1981 | |||
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Pinocchio's Christmas
Director, Producer |
1980 | |||
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The Ivory Ape
Executive Producer |
1980 | |||
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The Return of the King
Director |
1980 | |||
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Jack Frost
Director, Lyricist, Producer |
1979 | |||
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Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Director, Producer |
1979 | |||
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The Hobbit
Director |
1978 | |||
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The Stingiest Man in Town
Director |
1978 | |||
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Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer |
1977 | |||
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The Easter Bunny Is Coming to Town
Director, Producer |
1977 | |||
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The Last Dinosaur
Composer (Music Score), Producer |
1977 | |||
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Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Director, Producer |
1976 | |||
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The Little Drummer Boy: Book 2
Director, Producer |
1976 | |||
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The First Christmas
Director |
1975 | |||
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Director, Lyricist, Producer |
1974 | |||
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The Year without a Santa Claus
Director, Producer |
1974 | |||
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Festival of Family Favorites: The Ballad of Paul Bunyan
Director, Producer |
1973 | |||
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Marco
Producer |
1973 | |||
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The Arabian Knights
Producer |
1973 | |||
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Festival of Family Classics: Cinderella
Director, Producer |
1972 | |||
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Mad Mad Mad Monsters
Director, Producer |
1972 | |||
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Director, Producer |
1972 | |||
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Director, Producer |
1971 | |||
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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Songwriter |
1970 | |||
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Frosty the Snowman
Director, Producer |
1969 | |||
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Mad Monster Party
Director, Songwriter |
1968 | |||
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The Little Drummer Boy
Director, Producer, Songwriter |
1968 | |||
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The Wacky World of Mother Goose
Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Songwriter |
1967 | |||
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The Ballad of Smokey the Bear
Producer |
1966 | |||
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The Daydreamer
Director, Songwriter |
1966 | |||
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Co-producer |
1964 |



