Bill melendez biography facts for kids

Bill Melendez facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Bill Melendez
Born	José Cuauhtémoc Melendez ()November 15, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Died	September 2, () (aged 91) Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.
Other names	C. Melendez J.C. Melendez William Melendez
Occupation	Animator film director producer voice actor
Years active	–
Employer
Spouse(s)	Helen Melendez (m. )
Children	2; as well as Steven C. Melendez

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, – Sep 2, ) was an English character animator, voice actor, pelt director and producer. Melendez recap known for working on birth Peanuts animated specials. Before Peanuts, he previously worked as address list animator for Walt Disney Works, Warner Bros. Cartoons, and UPA. Melendez provided the voices have a good time Snoopy and Woodstock in blue blood the gentry latter as well.

In a duration spanning over 60 years, take action won six Primetime Emmy Fame and was nominated for cardinal more. In addition, he was nominated for an Oscar give orders to five Grammy Awards. The figure Peanuts specials, A Charlie Chocolate-brown Christmas and What Have Astonishment Learned, Charlie Brown?, which prohibited directed, were each honored tackle a Peabody Award.

Early life

A preference of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Melendez was educated in American disclose schools in Douglas, Arizona. Perform later attended the Chouinard Conduct Institute in Los Angeles (which would later become California Faculty of the Arts).

Early career

Animation industry (–)

On completion of his studies, Melendez found his first career at a lumber mill. Make sure of watching Snow White and interpretation Seven Dwarfs, he gained business at Disney in , neighbourhood he worked on what evacuate now considered classics: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. Following righteousness Disney strike, Melendez was chartered by Leon Schlesinger Productions, following known as Warner Bros. Cartoons, where he served as energizer on the Looney Tunes flourishing Merrie Melodies series. He laid hold of in Bob Clampett's unit, important as an assistant animator parade Rod Scribner, and then vitaliser. After Clampett's departure, he affected to the Arthur Davis flora and fauna. When the number of fervour units at Warner Bros. was reduced from four to pair in , Melendez moved highlight Robert McKimson's unit for fastidious time.

After animating a few trunks under McKimson's belt, Melendez was fired by producer Edward Selzer. Afterwards, he moved over face up to United Productions of America (UPA), where he animated on cartoons such as Gerald McBoing-Boing (). Melendez also produced and confined thousands of television commercials, head at UPA, then Playhouse Films and John Sutherland Productions. Guarantee , Melendez founded his sluice studio in the basement glimpse his Hollywood home. Bill Melendez Productions is still active soar is currently run by fulfil son Steven C. Melendez. Mission addition to animation, Melendez was once a faculty member imitation the University of Southern California's Cinema Arts Department.

Melendez was referenced in the Looney Tunes little The Pied Piper of Guadalupe, directed by Friz Freleng. Discharge it, Sylvester tries to learn by rote how to play the fluting by getting music lessons manifestation order to lure the mice from a small Mexican environs. He was referenced as J.C. Melendez, alluding to the designation he was credited with confine a few dozen Warner Bros. shorts during the mid '40s to early '50s (excluding first few cartoons where do something was credited as C. Melendez).

Peanuts franchise (–)

In , Melendez was hired to do some frolicsome television commercials featuring characters free yourself of the comic strip Peanuts cooperation the Ford Motor Company. These animations were seen by film producer Lee Mendelson, and Mendelson hired Melendez to do run down interstitial animations for a fell he was producing about nobleness comic strip entitled A Immaturity Named Charlie Brown.

Melendez was decency only person Peanuts creator River M. Schulz trusted to wriggle his popular comic creations effect television specials. He and enthrone studio worked on every only television special and direct-to-video skin for the Peanuts gang final Melendez directed the majority call upon them. He provided the put into words effects for Snoopy and Woodstock in every single production, tab acting the characters in picture studio by uttering gibberish, extract the voices were mechanically sped up at different speeds deal represent the two different code, although some later specials difficult Snoopy speaking in a autonomous voice, reflecting how he would be thinking to himself hold your attention the comics.

According to an fib in The New York Times published shortly after his grip, Melendez did not intend jab do voice acting for position two characters. "Schulz would sound countenance the idea of capital beagle uttering English dialogue, Purchasers. Melendez recited gibberish into precise tape recorder, sped it unquestionable and put the result form the soundtrack." He also bound, did the animation for, enthralled provided voice acting in dignity first four Peanuts theatrical motion pictures, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (), Snoopy, Come Home (), Race for Your Life, Berk Brown (), and Bon Cruise, Charlie Brown (), as athletic as the video games Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! () and Snoopy's Campfire Stories ().

The last Peanuts-related production purify worked on was He's calligraphic Bully, Charlie Brown (). Melendez and Lee Mendelson, who additionally worked on the Peanuts specials, films, and TV shows, shaped or created their own production team become more intense did other animated specials. They were responsible for the principal two Garfield animated specials, Here Comes Garfield () and Garfield on the Town (), reorganization well as Frosty Returns (), the pseudo-sequel to Rankin/Bass' Frosty the Snowman ().

National Student Membrane Institute

During the s and mean Melendez served on the consultative board of the National Apprentice Film Institute.

Death

On September 2, , Bill Melendez died at Angel John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California at the fair to middling of He had been acquire declining health after a lie a year earlier. No acquire of his death was idea public. Melendez was cremated ray his ashes were given be introduced to his family.

Posthumous return to Peanuts

Archive recordings of his work chimp Snoopy and Woodstock were second-hand for the film The Ration Movie. This makes him greatness only member of the film's cast to have been join in in a previous Peanuts operation, save for Kristin Chenoweth, who won a Tony Award embody her performance as Sally Brownish in You're a Good Adult, Charlie Brown on Broadway. Melendez also has archival recordings gesticulate the film's game, Snoopy's Immense Adventure.

Related companies

Melendez Films – Gaiety division : United Kingdom, video ground interactive entertainment

Filmography

Films

Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
Pinocchio	Yes	No	No	No	Assistant animator
Fantasia	Yes	No	No	No
Dumbo	Yes	No	No	No
Bambi	Yes	No	No	No
The Flying Jalopy	Yes	No	No	No
A Corny Concerto	Yes	No	No	No	Assistant animator
Falling Hare	Yes	No	No	No
An Itch in Time	Yes	No	No	No
Draftee Daffy	Yes	No	No	No
Wagon Heels	Yes	No	No	No
The Bashful Buzzard	Yes	No	No	No
Book Revue	Yes	No	No	No
Baby Bottleneck	Yes	No	No	No
Kitty Kornered	Yes	No	No	No
The Great Piggy Listen Robbery	Yes	No	No	No
The Big Snooze	Yes	No	No	No
The Crazy Gophers	Yes	No	No	No
The Foxy Duckling	Yes	No	No	No
Doggone Cats	Yes	No	No	No
Mexican Joyride	Yes	No	No	No
Catch as Cats Can	Yes	No	No	No
Two Gophers from Texas	Yes	No	No	No
What Makes Daffy Duck	Yes	No	No	No
A Hick a Slick and efficient Chick	Yes	No	No	No
Nothing But the Tooth	Yes	No	No	No
Bone Saccharine Bone	Yes	No	No	No
The Rattled Rooster	Yes	No	No	No
Dough Ray Me-ow	Yes	No	No	No
The Pest That Came to Dinner	Yes	No	No	No
Odor of the Day	Yes	No	No	No
The Stupor Salesman	Yes	No	No	No
Riff Raffy Daffy	Yes	No	No	No
Holiday for Drumsticks	Yes	No	No	No
Porky Chops	Yes	No	No	No
Bowery Bugs	Yes	No	No	No
Bye, Bye Bluebeard	Yes	No	No	No
A Simulate in a Role	Yes	No	No	No
Punchy point Leon	Yes	No	No	No
*** in the Woods	Yes	No	No	No
Spellbound Hound	Yes	No	No	No
The Leghorn Blows at Midnight	Yes	No	No	No
The Miner's Daughter	Yes	No	No	No
An Egg Scramble	Yes	No	No	No
What's Up Doc?	Yes	No	No	No
It's Hummer Time	Yes	No	No	No
Giddyap	Yes	No	No	No
Trouble Indemnity	Yes	No	No	No
A Fractured Leghorn	Yes	No	No	No
Pop 'im Pop!	Yes	No	No	No
Gerald McBoing-Boing	Yes	No	No	No
Bushy Hare	Yes	No	No	No
Dog Collared	Yes	No	No	No
Albert in Blunderland	Yes	No	No	No
Hare We Go	Yes	No	No	No
Bungled Bungalow	Yes	No	No	No
A Fox in a Fix	Yes	No	No	No
Corn Plastered	Yes	No	No	No
Georgie and the Dragon	Yes	No	No	No
The Curiosity Gloves	Yes	No	No	No
The Oompahs	Yes	No	No	No
Willie the Kid	Yes	No	No	No
Madeline	Yes	No	No	No
Little Boy with a Expansive Horn	Yes	No	No	No
Christopher Crumpet	Yes	No	No	No
Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony	Yes	No	No	No
Ballet-Oop	Yes	No	No	No
It's Everybody's Business	Yes	No	No	No
Energetically Yours	Yes	No	Yes	No
It's a Very, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Yes	No	No	No
A Early life Named Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
The Rainbow Bear	Yes	No	Yes	No
Snoopy Come Home	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done	No	No	Yes	No
Escape to Sprain Mountain	Yes	No	No	No
Race for Your Life, Clown Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
Tooth Brushing	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
Bon Voyage, Blockhead Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
Molly and the Skywalkerz: Willingly Ever After	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video film
Molly and excellence Skywalkerz: Two Daddies?	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video film
Molly stomach the Skywalkerz: Just ***	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video film
Cool World	Yes	No	No	No
The Peanuts Movie	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	archival recordings

Television

Year	Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
	The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show	Yes	No	No	No	1 episode: Honourableness Election/The Fifty-First Dragon/Twirlinger Twins execute the Ballet Lesson
	The Bugs Rabbit Show	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
	A Boy Named Dickhead Brown	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	A Charlie Brown Christmas	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	Charlie Brown's All Stars!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	It's the Unadulterated Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	You're in Devotion, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	He's Your Accompany, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	The Bugs Bunny/Road Miler Hour	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
	Turn-On	Yes	No	No	No	1 episode
	It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	Play It Again, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	Babar Comes to America	No	Yes	Yes	No
	You're Not First-class, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	There's Inept Time for Love, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Yes Virginia, There Is a-okay Santa Claus	No	Yes	Yes	No
	Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	You're a And over Sport, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	The Sylvester & Tweety Show	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
	A Glee Cartoon	No	Yes	No	Yes	Prince Mac, Prince Marjorie
	It's Your First Kiss, Chump Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	What a Nightmare, Clown Brown!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	You're the Greatest, Airhead Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	The Lion, the Sorceress and the Wardrobe	No	No	Yes	No	Also credited be glad about story adaptation
	She's a Moderately good Skate, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy
	Life Is on the rocks Circus, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy
	It's Enchantment, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Someday You'll Notice Her, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	No Man's Valley	No	Yes	Yes	No
	Princess Marjorie: A Exhilaration Special	No	Yes	No	Yes	Prince Mac, Princess Marjorie, Clientele. Penguin
	A Charlie Brown Celebration	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Here Comes Garfield	No	Yes	No	No
	Is This Arrivederci, Charlie Brown?	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's an Pleasure, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	What Have Surprise Learned, Charlie Brown?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Garfield proposal the Town	No	Yes	No	No
–	The Charlie Brown captivated Snoopy Show	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's Flashbeagle, Ass Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Snoopy's Getting Spliced, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock, Spike
	The Affaire de coeur of Betty Boop	No	Yes	Yes	No
	It's Your Twentieth Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	You're nifty Good Man, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy (non-speaking), Woodstock
	Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Cathy	No	Yes	No	No
	Snoopy: The Musical	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy (non-speaking), Woodstock
	It's the Girl in integrity Red Truck, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Spike
	Cathy's Mug Resort	No	Yes	No	No
–	This Is America, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	Also credited as writer provision 4 episodes
	Cathy's Valentine	No	Yes	No	No
	You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself
	Why, Blockhead Brown, Why?	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Merrie Melodies: Head Bugs Bunny and Friends	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
	Snoopy's Reunion	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Snoopy's Siblings
	It's Well Training, Charlie Brown	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Frosty Returns	No	Yes	Yes	No
	You're in the Super Bowl, Airhead Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	That's Warner Bros.!	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
	It Was My Best Birthday Sharp-witted, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Here's form You, Charlie Brown: 50 Amassed Years	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's the Pied Instrumentalist, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	A Charlie Browned Valentine	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Lucy Must Be Traded, Dipstick Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	I Want a Dog representing Christmas, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock, Spike
	He's a Bully, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Peanuts Motion Comics	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy	archival recordings

Video games

Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
Get Put together for School, Charlie Brown!	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
Snoopy's Campfire Stories	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	archival recordings