Gene Deitch, animator who created Tom Terrific for Captain Kangaroo, won an Oscar for the short subject Munro and animated Tom & Jerry and Popeye for a spell, has passed on at age 95.
CBS hired Deitch to give the Terrytoons studio in New Rochelle, N.Y. a creative kick in the pants. But studio head Bill Weiss, who wanted Deitch fired from day one, sought to keep Terrytoons under the same meat-and-potatoes regimen for cartoon making only on TV budgets.
CBS hired Deitch to give the Terrytoons studio in New Rochelle, N.Y. a creative kick in the pants. But studio head Bill Weiss, who wanted Deitch fired from day one, sought to keep Terrytoons under the same meat-and-potatoes regimen for cartoon making only on TV budgets.