Ralph Bakshi

October 29, 1938

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator. Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to director. He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and the most successful independent animated feature of all time. Over the next eleven years, Bakshi directed seven additional animated features. He is well known for his fantasy films, which include Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978) and Fire and Ice (1983). In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years before it was canceled due to complaints from a conservative political group over perceived drug references. After a nine-year hiatus from feature films, he directed Cool World (1992), which was largely rewritten during production and received poor reviews. Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy (1994) and the anthology series Spicy City (1997). He founded the Bakshi School of Animation and Cartooning in 2003. During the 2000s, he has focused largely on painting. He has received several awards for his work, including the 1980 Golden Gryphon for The Lord of the Rings at the Giffoni Film Festival, the 1988 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation, and the 2003 Maverick Tribute Award at the Cinequest Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Bakshi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast

Frazetta: Painting with Fire

(Himself)

Adventures in Plymptoons!

(Himself)

American Pop

(Piano Player (voice))

Midwest

Forging Through the Darkness: The Ralph Bakshi Vision for 'The Lord of the Rings'

(Self)

Heavy Traffic

(Various Characters (voice) (uncredited))

Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse

(Self)

Malcom and Melvin

(Super Hero)

Babe, He Calls Me

(Super Hero)

Fritz the Cat

(Narrator / Pig Cop #1 (voice))

Wizards

(Fritz (voice, uncredited))

Wizards

(Storm Trooper (voice, uncredited))

Coonskin

(Cop With Megaphone (voice) (uncredited))

Spicy City

(Connelly / Goldblum (voice))

Spicy City

(Stevie (voice))

Crew

The Lord of the Rings

(Director)

Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy

(Animation)

Heavy Traffic

(Screenplay)

Heavy Traffic

(Director)

Hey Good Lookin'

(Producer)

Hey Good Lookin'

(Director)

Hey Good Lookin'

(Writer)

Fritz the Cat

(Director)

Fritz the Cat

(Screenplay)

Coonskin

(Writer)

Coonskin

(Director)

American Pop

(Director)

Cool World

(Director)

Fire and Ice

(Director)

Fire and Ice

(Characters)

Fire and Ice

(Producer)

Wizards

(Writer)

Wizards

(Director)

Wizards

(Producer)

The Butter Battle Book

(Director)

The Butter Battle Book

(Producer)

The Third Musketeer

(Director)

Cool and the Crazy

(Director)

Cool and the Crazy

(Writer)

Cannonball Run II

(Animation)

Christmas in Tattertown

(Director)

Marvin Digs

(Production Design)

The Cigarette and the Weed

(Animation)

The Cigarette and the Weed

(Writer)

The Cigarette and the Weed

(Director)

Mini-Squirts

(Executive Producer)

Mini-Squirts

(Character Designer)

Mini-Squirts

(Creator)

The Fuz

(Director)

Fancy Plants

(Director)

The Monster Master

(Director)

The Heat's Off

(Director)

The Unsung Hero

(Visual Effects)

Frozen Sparklers

(Director)

Midwest

(Director)

Midwest

(Writer)

Don't Spill the Beans

(Director)

Scuba Duba Do

(Director)

The Opera Caper

(Director)

Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy

(Director)

Dr. Ha-Ha

(Director)

Mini-Squirts

(Director)

Dress Reversal

(Director)

Mouse Trek

(Director)

Babe, He Calls Me

(Animation)

Last Days of Coney Island

(Director)

Coonskin

(Additional Photography)

Coonskin

(Lyricist)

Last Days of Coney Island

(Writer)

Last Days of Coney Island

(Producer)

House of Hashimoto

(Animation)

The Mysterious Package

(Animation)

Christmas in Tattertown

(Characters)

Babe, He Calls Me

(Director)

Babe, He Calls Me

(Writer)

Malcom and Melvin

(Director)

Malcom and Melvin

(Writer)

This Ain't Bebop

(Writer)

This Ain't Bebop

(Director)

Marvin Digs

(Director)

Trickle Dickle Down

(Director)

Marvin Digs

(Executive Producer)

Imagining America

(Director)

Trickle Dickle Down

(Producer)

Baron Von Go-Go

(Director)

Hound Town

(Director)

Trickle Dickle Down

(Writer)

Traffic Trouble

(Director)

Reflections of A Native Son

(Writer)

Tribe

(Writer)

Get Your Kicks on Route 66

(Writer)

The Bigger Digger

(Director)

It's for the Birds

(Director)

American Pop

(Producer)

The Plastic Blaster

(Director)

The Return of the Monsterizer

(Director)

Crossing The Delaware

(Animation)

The Drifter

(Director)

The Frog

(Director)

The Ghost Monster

(Director)

The Junker

(Director)

Mr. Winlucky

(Director)

A Voodoo Spell