Jules Bass

Director

Jules Bass was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on September 16th, 1935 and is the Director. At the age of 88, Jules Bass biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
September 16, 1935
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Age
88 years old
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Profession
Children's Writer, Composer, Film Director, Film Producer, Lyricist, Screenwriter, Writer
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Jules Bass Career

Bass started working with Arthur Rankin Jr. at the American Broadcasting Company in 1955. Rankin was an art director and Bass was a copywriter. The pair initially made television commercials, before moving onto television series and movies when they established Videocraft International in 1960. They released their first syndicated television series, The New Adventures of Pinocchio, that same year, and later renamed the company to Rankin/Bass Productions when they started creating animated films for television. This was followed by the long-running stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and theatrical feature Mad Monster Party (1967), TV specials like The Ballad of Smokey the Bear (1966), Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970) and Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971). Traditional hand-drawn animation was employed in features like The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967), specials like Frosty the Snowman (1969), and series like The King Kong Show (1966). Bass shared the director credit with Rankin for the aforementioned productions. Their later collaborations included the hit cartoon ThunderCats (1985–1989) and The Wind in the Willows (1987).

Bass wrote the lyrics for many of the films he directed, collaborating with composer Maury Laws. This began with his first solo directing project, the live-action/stop-motion feature The Daydreamer (1966). Bass also wrote for some of the company's specials under the pseudonym "Julian P. Gardner", some of which include The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow, The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus, and the Emmy Award nominated The Little Drummer Boy, Book II. With Laws, he wrote songs performed by Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Mickey Rooney, Ed Wynn, Patty Duke, Ray Bolger, Shirley Booth, John Huston, Roddy McDowall, Danny Thomas, José Ferrer, Vincent Price, Phyllis Diller, Boris Karloff, and the Vienna Boys' Choir. Bass also adapted the verse of J. R. R. Tolkien, approved by the Tolkien estate, into musicalized lyrics for the first completed film adaptation of The Hobbit, in 1977. The animated feature, produced for NBC, was awarded the Peabody Award.

Bass stopped directing and producing films in 1987. He later authored a series of children's books, based around the character of Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon and Cooking with Herb. He also wrote fiction for adults including Headhunters, which was adapted into the 2011 Selena Gomez feature, Monte Carlo.

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Jules Bass, a film producer, died at the age of 87 after a more than five-decade career in Hollywood

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2022
Jules Bass, the designer of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' and Frosty the Snowman, died on Tuesday in an assisted living facility in New York at the age of 87. According to Jennifer Fisherman, the talented director, who received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special in 1976, died from an age-related illness. In addition to spreading Christmas cheer with his holiday TV specials, including Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, he wrote several children's books.