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José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008) [1] [2] was an American animator, director, producer, and voice actor. Melendez is known for working on the Peanuts animated specials, as well as providing the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock.
Melendez Films (formerly Bill Melendez Productions and Melendez Features, Inc.) is a film animation studio. It was founded in 1962 by Steven C. Melendez, the son of Peanuts animator Bill Melendez. The studio produced the ambitious animated feature film Dick Deadeye, based on the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American animated Halloween television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.The third Peanuts special, and the second holiday-themed special, to be created, it was written by Schulz along with director/animator Bill Melendez and producer Lee Mendelson.
That fell to director Bill Melendez, who first collaborated with Schulz on A Charlie Brown Christmas. The duo continued to work together on animated Peanuts specials for decades, alongside ...
Steven Cuitlahuac Melendez: Editors: Michael Crane Mick Manning José Pallejá: Running time: 95 minutes: Production companies: Children's Television Workshop Bill Melendez Productions Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation: Original release; Network: CBS: Release: April 1 () – April 2, 1979 ()
A Charlie Brown Christmas (CBS, 1965) Directed by Bill Melendez. Written by Charles Schulz. Young voice-over talent Peter Robbins made his indelible mark as Charlie Brown in this poignant holiday ...
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special.It is the first TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, and features the voices of Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Kathy Steinberg, Tracy Stratford, and Bill Melendez.
Schulz in turn suggested hiring animator and director Bill Melendez, whom Schulz had worked with while creating a Peanuts-themed advertising campaign for the Ford Motor Company. Mendelson also hired jazz composer Vince Guaraldi after hearing "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", a Guaraldi-composed song while driving across the Golden Gate Bridge. [5]