Jules Bass, whose work as a producer and director of stop-motion and animated television specials such as ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘The Year Without A Santa Claus’ has become an integral part of the holiday season for generations, died today
has become an integral part of the holiday season for generations, died today in Rye, New York, of age-related illnesses. He was 87.Bass was working in advertising in New York City when, in 1960, he teamed up with an art director at ABC named Arthur Rankin Jr. to form a film production company called Videocraft International.
The immediate success of Rudolph placed the special firmly in league with other 1960s holiday fare that would become enduring holiday staples, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Rudolph also paved the way for Rankin/Bass’s premiere spot as a maker of holiday TV specials. Subsequent productions including the traditionally-animated Frosty the Snowman, with the voices of Jackie Vernon and Jimmy Durante, in 1969; and the stop-motion specials The Little Drummer Boy ; Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,; and The Year Without A Santa Claus , among numerous others.
The company branched out to other holidays as well, producing the 1967 stop-motion feature film Mad Monster Party, featuring the voices of Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller, and, in 1971, The TV Easter special Here Comes Peter Cottontail. Bass was predeceased by his daughter Jean Nicole Bass, who died at 61 in January. He leaves no survivors.
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