Hokey Smoke! Alexander Anderson Jr., the cartoon mastermind behind Rocky & Bullwinkle, has died. He passed away Friday at a nursing home in Carmel, Calif., at the age of 90 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. He got his start in the 1940s as an apprentice for his uncle, Paul Terry, the legendary cartoonist whose Terrytoons produced Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle. Anderson teamed up with his old fraternity brother Jay Ward to form Television Arts Productions and hatched a slew of cartoon characters right out of their garage, including Crusader Rabbit, Rags the Tiger and that righteous Mountie Dudley Do Right. Their most famous and enduring creation was a clever flying...
- 10/26/2010
- E! Online
Right on the heels of Joseph Stein, another little-known face of classic entertainment goes the way of the dinosaur. Man, it's a sad day for the Old Guard.
Alexander Anderson Jr., the famous cartoonist responsible for Crusader Rabbit, Rags the Tiger and Dudley Do-Right as well as the famous interspecies duo Rocky and Bullwinkle, has died of Alzheimer's Disease at age 90.
As a young man, Anderson was an apprentice to his uncle Paul Terry, also a cartoonist who penned Mighty Mouse comics from his studio in New Rochelle, New York, before serving in World War II.
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Alexander Anderson Jr., the famous cartoonist responsible for Crusader Rabbit, Rags the Tiger and Dudley Do-Right as well as the famous interspecies duo Rocky and Bullwinkle, has died of Alzheimer's Disease at age 90.
As a young man, Anderson was an apprentice to his uncle Paul Terry, also a cartoonist who penned Mighty Mouse comics from his studio in New Rochelle, New York, before serving in World War II.
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- 10/26/2010
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
TV cartoonist Alexander Anderson, the creator of TV characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, has died at the age of 90. According to the Los Angeles Times, Anderson passed away at a rest home in Carmal, California last Friday. The cartoonist was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Anderson also created the characters Crusader Rabbit, Rags the Tiger and Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties with Jay Ward, a college fraternity mate he met at the University of California. Crusader the Rabbit was the first animated TV series of the 1950s, according to The AP. Rocky and Bullwinkle, Anderson's most popular characters, first appeared on television in 1959 in the animated series Rocky and His Friends and then in The Bullwinkle Show, and were later brought together in The Rocky and (more)...
- 10/26/2010
- by By Mike Moody
- Digital Spy
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