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The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass and animated by Topcraft. The film is an adaptation of the 1937 book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien ; it was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on Sunday, November 27, 1977.
The first commercial adaptation of Tolkien's works was the Rankin/Bass animated television special The Hobbit (1977). The first theatrical adaptation was Ralph Bakshi's animated film The Lord of the Rings (1978). This was followed by the Rankin/Bass animated television film The Return of the King (1980). The first live-action adaptations were ...
November 24, 1977: 60 minutes A Flintstone Christmas: United States: Charles A. Nichols: Hanna-Barbera: Traditional: Television special: December 7, 1977: 48 minutes Gulliver's Travels: United Kingdom Belgium: Peter R. Hunt: Belvision: Traditional/Live action: Theatrical Live-action animated film: May 6, 1977: 80 minutes The Hobbit: United ...
The 1967 short animated film The Hobbit was the first film production of The Hobbit.It was directed by Gene Deitch in Czechoslovakia.American film producer William L. Snyder obtained the rights to the novel from the Tolkien estate very cheaply while it was still largely unknown, with the proviso that he produce a "full-colour film" by 30 June 1966, and immediately set about producing a feature ...
Don Messick voiced Balin in Rankin/Bass's 1977 animated version of The Hobbit. [5] In Jackson's live-action film series of The Hobbit, Balin is portrayed by Ken Stott as reluctant to go on the quest for old gold, whether or not the dragon had stolen it from Balin's ancestors. As such, he is sympathetic to Bilbo, who appears quite unsuitable for ...
In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Thorin is voiced by Hans Conried. [13] In the 1985 Soviet television play The Hobbit, Thorin was played by Anatoly Ravikovich. [14] In Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of The Hobbit (2012–2014), Thorin is portrayed by Richard Armitage. [15]
Huston is famous to a generation of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/Bass animated adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980). Huston played the lead in Orson Welles's last completed film, The Other Side of the Wind. In it he played an aging filmmaker named ...
This category is for animated films released in the year 1977. It does not include unreleased films. ... The Hobbit (1977 film) J. A Journey to the Center of the ...