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Jay Ward

Producer, Writer, Director, Additional Credits
Born September 20, 1920Died October 12, 1989 (69 years)
Jay Ward was an American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken. His company, Jay Ward Productions, designed the trademark characters for the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and it made TV commercials for those products, and the company also made a Drive-in Theater intermission in 1963, which was later remastered in the 2010s. Ward produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers that featured comedy redubbing of silent films.

Known For

  • George of the Jungle
  • Mr. Peabody & Sherman
  • Dudley Do-Right
  • The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
  • George of the Jungle 2
  • The Bullwinkle Show
  • George of the Jungle
  • Boris and Natasha
  • The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
  • George of the Jungle (1967)
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Fractured Fairy Tales: The Phox, the Box, & the Lox
  • Crusader Rabbit
  • Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle

Filmography

1979
The Golden Age of Buster Keaton · as Executive Producer
1969
1967
Super Chicken (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1967
Tom Slick (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1967
George of the Jungle (1967) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1966
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy · as Executive Producer
1964
Hoppity Hooper (TV Series)
1963
Fractured Flickers (TV Series)
1959
1959
1959
1950
Crusader Rabbit (TV Series)

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