November 14th, 2010

Members Click Here Membership Email Join Us!

Biography: Jim Tyer

This posting is a stub. You can contribute to this entry by providing information through the comments link at the bottom of this post. Please organize your information following the main category headers below….

Birth/Death

Birth: Feb 7, 1904
Death: March 1976

Occupation/Title

Animator, Director, Writer

Bio Summary

He worked in animation in New York, Hollywood and Florida

Early Life/Family

He was born in Bridgeport Connecticut USA.

Education/Training

Career Outline

He began working in animation in New York City, at the Aesop’s Fables Studio, around 1926. He did a Brief stint at Disney in Hollywood then went to work at MGM in 1938. He then went to the Fleisher brother’s studio at the time located in Miami Florida. In 1946 he went to Terry Toons at Twentieth Century Fox in New York City. He left Terry Toons in 1959. He worked on various projects such as producing animation and most notably before his death he worked on the feature film Fritz The Cat.

Comments On Style

A style all his own. Some characters are drawn with incorrect mouth movements. Or some characters have two mouths.

Influences

Personality

Anecdotes

Miscellaneous

Filmography

Animator:?

The Fatal Note (1933) (animator)
Cupid Gets his Man (1936) (animator) (uncredited)?You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap (1942) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Spinach Fer Britain (1943) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Seein’ Red, White ‘n’ Blue (1943) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Her Honor the Mare (1943) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Puppet Love (1944) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Moving Aweigh (1944) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
She-Sick Sailors (1944) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Shape Ahoy (1945) (animator)
Cheese Burglar (1946) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Service with a Guile (1946) (animator)
Peep in the Deep (1946) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
Rocket to Mars (1946) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)
The Island Fling (1947) (animator) (uncredited)
The Royal Four-Flusher (1947) (animator) (uncredited)
Dingbat Land (1949) (animator) (uncredited)?The Lyin’ Lion (1949) (animator) (uncredited)?Dream Walking (1950) (animator) (uncredited) ?Steeple Jacks (1951) (animator) (uncredited)?The Helpful Geni (1951) (animator) (uncredited)?The Cat’s Tale (1951) (animator) (uncredited)?Papa’s Little Helpers (1951) (animator) (uncredited)?Papa’s Day of Rest (1951) (animator) (uncredited)?Off to the Opera (1952) (animator) (uncredited)?House Busters (1952) (animator) (uncredited)?Pill Peddlers (1952) (animator) (uncredited)
Featherweight Champ (1953) (animator) (uncredited)?Playful Puss (1953) (animator) (uncredited)
Plumber’s Helpers (1953) (animator) (uncredited)
Ten Pin Terrors (1953) (animator) (uncredited)
Hot Rods (1953) (animator) (uncredited)
When Mousehood Was in Flower (1953) (animator) (uncredited)
Bargain Daze (1953) (animator)
Log Rollers (1953) (animator) (uncredited)
Blind Date (1953) (animator)
Prescription for Percy (1954) (animator) (uncredited)
The Cat’s Revenge (1954) (animator)?Barnyard Actor (1955) (animator) (uncredited)
No Sleep for Percy (1955) (animator) (uncredited)
Miami Maniacs (1955) (animator) (uncredited)
Lucky Dog (1956) (animator)?Pirate’s Gold (1956) (animator) (uncredited)?”The Heckle and Jeckle Show” (1956) TV series (animator: theatrical cartoon segments)?”Tom Terrific” (1957) TV series (animator)?Topsy TV (1957) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)?Flebus (1957) (animator)?It’s a Living (1957) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)?Sidney’s Family Tree (1958) (animator)?Gaston’s Baby (1958) (animator)?Old Mother Clobber (1958) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)?Gaston’s Easel Life (1958) (animator)?Clobber’s Ballet Ache (1959) (animator)?The Flamboyant Arms (1959) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)?Foofle’s Train Ride (1959) (animator) (as Jim Tyer)?”Felix the Cat” (1960) TV series (animator) ?Aesop’s Fable: The Tiger King (1960) (animator) (uncredited)?”Out of the Inkwell” (1961) TV series (animator) (1961) ?… aka Max Fleischer Presents Out of the Inkwell (USA: complete title)?”Snuffy Smith and Barney Google” (animator) (2 episodes, 1963)? – Barney’s Winter Carnival (1963) TV episode (animator) ? – Snuffy’s Fair Lady (1963) TV episode (animator) (uncredited)
Hobo Hootenanny (1965) (TV) (animator)
“Milton the Monster” (1965) TV series (animator) (as Jim Tyer) ?… aka The Milton the Monster Show (USA)
The Moon Goons (1965) (TV) (animator)?Suit Yourself (1966) (TV) (animator)?Nuggets to You (1966) (TV) (animator)?Manhole Manny (1967) (TV) (animator)?The Kitchy-Koo Kaper (1967) (TV) (animator)?Goo-Goo a Go-Go (1967) (TV) (animator)?Greasy Gus (1967) (TV) (animator)?Roz the Schnozz (1967) (TV) (animator)?Bride and Doom (1967) (TV) (animator)?Slow Down! Speed Up! (1967) (TV) (animator)?Watch My Smoke (1967) (TV) (animator)?The Bomber Bird (1967) (TV) (animator)?Jerkules (1967) (TV) (animator)
Fritz the Cat (1972) (animator)

Director:

Marching Along (1933)
Pals (1933) (as Jim Tyer) ?… aka Christmas Up North (USA: TV title)
Grandfather’s Clock (1934) (uncredited)
Little Bird Told Me (1934) (uncredited)
?Writer:
You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap (1942) (story) (as Jim Tyer)?Think or Sink (1967) (writer) ?

Honors

Related Links


Bibliographic References

BIO-AAA-105

Contributors To This Listing

Frank Sisto III

To make additions or corrections to this listing, please click on COMMENTS below…??

FacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailFacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailby feather
Share on Tumblr

Posted by Stephen Worth @ 11:38 pm

November 13th, 2010

Members Click Here Membership Email Join Us!

Biography: Fred Ludekens

This posting is a stub. You can contribute to this entry by providing information through the comments link at the bottom of this post. Please organize your information following the main category headers below….

Birth/Death

Occupation/Title

Bio Summary

Early Life/Family

Education/Training

Career Outline

Comments On Style

Influences

Personality

Anecdotes

Miscellaneous

Filmography

Honors

Related Links

Bibliographic References

BIO-AAA-477

Contributors To This Listing

To make additions or corrections to this listing, please click on COMMENTS below…

FacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailFacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailby feather
Share on Tumblr

Posted by Stephen Worth @ 7:51 pm

November 13th, 2010

Members Click Here Membership Email Join Us!

Biography: Ben Stahl

This posting is a stub. You can contribute to this entry by providing information through the comments link at the bottom of this post. Please organize your information following the main category headers below….

Birth/Death
1910-1987

Occupation/Title
Artist/Illustrator/Author/Teacher

Bio Summary
Stahl was a prolific artist and teacher. At the young age of twelve his evident talent landed him a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. His career later covered much ground, ranging from illustrating for the Saturday Evening Post, to promotional posters for MGM studios. Stahl Won well over 25 national awards, taught at several prestigious art schools and institutes and even co-founded Famous Schools and Famous Schools International. Stahl even captured the attention of Walt Disney when he wrote Blackbeard’s Ghost in 1965 which Disney later made into a movie in 1969.

Early Life/Family

Education/Training
Art Institute of Chicago

Career Outline
-Taught at The American Academy of Art
-N.Y. Art Student’s League, Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute
-Commissioned by MGM to produce promotional movie posters
-Co-founded Famous Schools, the largest school in the world
-For 30 years he Illustrated stories for the Saturday evening Post
-Illustrated for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Esquire Magazines
-1965 Opened the Museum of the Cross in Sarasota, Florida
-1965: Illustrated,Wrote Blackbeard’s Ghost
-1969: Blackbeard’s Ghost is made into a live action movie by Disney
-1971 Wrote the sequel Blackbeard’s Ghost “The Secret of Red Skull”

Comments On Style


Stahl claimed that he liked to focus on emotion and impact in his art as opposed to fussing over details. His religious work at The Virtual Museum Of The Cross is Moody, painterly and illustrative with strong dramatic composition while many other painting are lively and colorful.

Influences
In general, Stahl’s art is expressive and moving, peppered with flavors of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. Some say he openly borrowed styles from many others, but it’s evident that he did it with appreciation and a love for all art.

Personality

Anecdotes


In April of 1969, 15 of Stahl’s painting were stolen from the Museum of the Cross in Sarasota, Florida (Stahl’s own museum). At the time the media considered it to be the second largest art theft of the decade. Loss damages were valued at over $1.5 million dollars.

Miscellaneous
Several paintings by Stahl are hanging in the Pentagon and the Air Force Academy.

Filmography


1969: Disney’s Blackbeard’s Ghost (wrote the book, not the screenplay)
1976: Featured in the television series Journey into Art with Ben Stahl.

Honors
Saltus Gold Medal from the Academy of Design
Listed in The Illustrator’s Hall of Fame
Listed in The Painter’s Hall of Fame
Listed in “Who’s Who in American Art”

Related Links

Ben Stahl at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stahl_(artist)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062737/
The Virtual Mueseum Of The Cross
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2006/04/ben-stahl-famous-artist.html
BIO-AAA-536

Bibliographic References

http://www.freelaunch.com/museum/bio.html

Contributors To This Listing

Varuna Darensbourg 4-8-2007, 
Jennifer Roth

To make additions or corrections to this listing, please click on COMMENTS below…

FacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailFacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailby feather
Share on Tumblr

Posted by Stephen Worth @ 7:49 pm