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This is a list of UPA theatrical cartoons featuring Mr. Magoo. Most of the films listed were distributed by Columbia Pictures , but the final three ( Magoo Meets Boing-Boing , Magoo Meets Frankenstein , and I Was a Teenage Magoo ) were distributed by UPA themselves.
Mr. Magoo is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Hong Kong film veteran Stanley Tong (his sole English language film) and written by Pat Proft and Tom Sherohman. Based on UPA's cartoon of the same name, it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and stars Leslie Nielsen as the title character, alongside Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer ...
J. Quincy Magoo, better known as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus , Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness , compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem.
United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio and later distribution company founded in 1941 as Industrial Film and Poster Service by former Walt Disney Productions employees. Beginning with industrial and World War II training films, UPA eventually produced theatrical shorts for Columbia Pictures such as ...
1001 Arabian Nights is a 1959 American animated comedy film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and distributed by Columbia Pictures.Released to theaters on December 1, 1959, the film is a loose adaptation of the Arab folktale of "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights, albeit with the addition of UPA's star cartoon character, Mr. Magoo, to the story as Aladdin's uncle, "Abdul ...
Release. December 18, 1962 (1962-12-18) Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a 1962 animated musical holiday television special produced by UPA. [ 1 ] It is an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and it features UPA's character Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. The special first aired on December 18, 1962, on NBC and was ...
1953. It's Time for Everybody – created as promotional film for the CBS Radio Network. Little Boy with a Big Horn. The Emperor's New Clothes. Safety Spin. Christopher Crumpet – Academy Award Nominee. Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony. Magoo's Masterpiece. The Unicorn in the Garden - British Academy Film Award Nominee.
Sturtevant was born June 20, 1922, in Redlands, California. She attended the University of Redlands from 1940 to 1944, and then attended Chouinard Art Institute, before taking her first job in animation at Walt Disney Pictures. The Los Angeles Evening Citizen News referred to her as "one of Hollywood's top designers of cartoon characters." [2]