1995 in animation explained
Events in 1995 in animation.
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Events
January
- January 2: The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show broadcasts its first episode.
February
March
- March 5: The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" is first broadcast; it is a crossover with The Critic and guest stars Jon Lovitz and Maurice LaMarche. Matt Groening heavily criticized the episode, feeling that it was just an advertisement for The Critic, and that people would incorrectly associate the show with him. Because of this, he was uncredited in the episode.
- March 27: 67th Academy Awards:
April
May
June
September
October
- October 4: The first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion airs.
- October 22: The first episode of The Little Lulu Show airs.[7]
November
December
- December 1: Trey Parker and Matt Stone make the animated short Jesus vs. Santa, which features embryonal versions of the characters they'll later use in South Park and will become a viral sensation under the title The Spirit of Christmas.
- December 22: Amblin Entertainment's Balto premieres. This is the last animated feature produced by Amblimation before it was closed down in 1997.[10] Despite its failure during the release, it becomes a cult classic and is favored over the poorly received direct-to-video sequels in the 2000s.
- December 28: Gerald McBoing-Boing is added to the National Film Registry.[11] [12]
Specific date unknown
Films released
See main article: List of animated feature films of 1995.
- January 20 - The Kingdom of Green Glade (Poland)
- January 31 - (United States and Japan)
- February 3 - The Monkeys and the Secret Weapon (Denmark)
- February 6 - Hercules (United States and Japan)
- February 25 - Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town (Japan)
- March 4:
- March 7 - The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit (United States)
- March 12:
- March 17 - Sleeping Beauty (United States and Japan)
- March 28 - VeggieTales: Are You My Neighbor? (United States)
- April 1 - Elementalors (Japan)
- April 7:
- April 11 - Pocahontas (United States)
- April 12 - The Pebble and the Penguin (United States and Ireland)
- April 15 - (Japan)
- April 22 - Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (Japan)
- April 27 - Snow White (United States and Japan)
- May 2 - The Prince and the Pauper (United States)
- May 9 - Black Beauty (United States and Japan)
- May 26 - Casper (United States)
- June 10 - Catnapped! (Japan)
- June 18 - Run (Japan)
- June 23 - Pocahontas (United States)
- July 12 - The Katta-kun Story (Japan)
- July 15:
- July 20 - Junkers Come Here (Japan)
- July 22 - Kazu & Yasu Hero Tanjō (Japan)
- July 29:
- Legend of Crystania: The Motion Picture (Japan)
- Soreike! Anpanman Yūreisen o Yattsukero!! (Japan)
- July 31:
- Little Red Riding Hood (United States and Japan)
- The Nutcracker (United States and Japan)
- August 4 - Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (Japan)
- August 5:
- August 9 - Curly, the Littlest Puppy (United States and Japan)
- August 19 - The Diary of Anne Frank (Japan)
- August 27 - Macross Plus: Movie Edition (Japan)
- August 29:
- The Christmas Elves (United States)
- Noah's Ark (United States)
- September - The Tale of Tillie's Dragon (United States)
- October 4 - (United States)
- October 12 - The Real Shlemiel (France, Germany and Hungary)
- October 16 - Pocahontas (Australia)
- October 17 - Jungle Book (United States and Japan)
- October 30 - Drawn from Memory (United States)
- November - Days of Rage (Greece)
- November 9 - Magic Gift of the Snowman (United States and Japan)
- November 18 - Ghost in the Shell (Japan and United Kingdom)
- November 21 - The Snow Queen (United Kingdom)
- November 22:
- November 28 - VeggieTales: Rack, Shack and Benny (United States)
- November 29 - Lesson of Darkness (Japan)
- December 15 - (United States)
- December 18:
- The Legend of the Blue Wolves (Japan)
- Silent Service (Japan)
- December 22 - Balto (United States and United Kingdom)
- December 23:
- The Hungry Best 5 (South Korea)
- Memories (Japan)
- (Japan)
- December 24:
- The Adventures of Mole (United Kingdom)
- Dol-a-on yeong-ung Hong Gil-dong (South Korea)
- December 25 - The Wind in the Willows (United Kingdom)
- Specific date unknown:
- Cinderella: Conspiracy at the Emerald Castle (Italy)
- The Elixir (Russia)
- Heidi (United States and Japan)
- Koushi-den (Japan, South Korea and Taiwan)
- The Mirror of Wonders (Italy)
Television series debuts
See main article: List of animated television series of 1995.
Television series endings
Births
January
February
March
May
July
- July 4: Post Malone, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer (voice of Brooklyn Bystander in and , Ray Fillet in ).
September
October
- October 3: Ayo Edebiri, American actress and comedienne (voice of Missy Foreman-Greenwald in Big Mouth, General Scarpaccio/Jayson Moody in Mulligan, Harriet Tubman in Clone High, April O'Neil in , Envy in Inside Out 2), television writer (Craig of the Creek) and producer (Big Mouth).
- October 4: Ambrosia Kelley, American former child actress (voice of Cora Walker in The Zeta Project episode "Change of Heart", young Sharon Hawkins in the Static Shock episode "Tantrum").
- October 15: Billy Unger, American actor (voice of Brad Kingstone in Fish Hooks, young Sammy in , Michael in the Special Agent Oso episode "The Boy with the Golden Gift", Handicapped Kid in the Family Guy episode "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing").
- October 30: Andy Pessoa, American actor (voice of Raf Esquivel in , Gabriel in the Sym-Bionic Titan episode "Shadows of Youth").
November
- November 17: Zach Barack, American actor (voice of Barney Guttman in ).
- November 22: Katherine McNamara, American actress (voice of Priscilla Pynch in , Sally Jessup in Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas).
- November 23: Austin Majors, American actor (voice of young Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet, Blue Teammate #3 in The Ant Bully, Thomas in the American Dad! episode "Of Ice and Men"), (d. 2023).[18]
- November 29: Laura Marano, American actress and singer (voice of Scout Y in The X's, Rachel in , Veronica in Pickle and Peanut, Mei Mei in the Ni Hao, Kai-Lan episode "Kai-Lan's Trip to China", Evie, Linda and Titanic Waitress in Robot Chicken episode "Sundancer Craig in: 30% of the Way to Crying", Girl Hamster #2 in the Fish Hooks episode "Algae Day").
December
Deaths
January
- January 12: William Pomerance, American animator (Walt Disney Studios), dies at age 89.[19]
- January 19: Don Tobin, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 79.[20]
- January 21: John Halas, Hungarian-English animator, film producer and director (Halas & Batchelor, Animal Farm, the animated music video of Love Is All by Roger Glover), dies at age 82.[21]
- January 24: Frank Emery, American mural artist, jazz musician, photographer, animator, illustrator, and comics artist, dies at age 37.[22]
- January 26: Cecil Roy, American actress (voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Lulu), dies at age 94.
March
- March 4: Gloria Wood, American singer and actress (voice of Nelly in Nelly's Folly, Suzy Sparrow in Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom), dies at age 71.[23]
- March 11: Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (voice of narrator in Wil Cwac Cwac,. Potholer and Linda in the SuperTed episode "SuperTed and the Pothole Rescue", Princess Amaranth in Alias the Jester, Mrs. Clonkers in The BFG), dies at age 50.[24]
- March 19 Yasuo Yamada, Japanese actor (voice of the title character in Lupin III), dies at age 62.
April
- April 8: Michael Graham Cox, English actor (voice of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, Bigwig in Watership Down), dies at age 57.
- April 14: Burl Ives, American singer and actor (voice of Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), dies at 85.[25] [26]
- April 19: Preston Blair, American animator (Walter Lantz, Charles Mintz, Walt Disney Company, MGM, Tex Avery, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 86.[27] [28] [29]
May
- May 2: Michael Hordern, English actor (voice of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Frith in Watership Down, Badger in The Wind in the Willows, narrator in Paddington), dies at age 83.[30] [31]
- May 18: Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (voice of Samantha in The Flintstones episode "Samantha", Barmaid in the episode "Showdown"), dies at age 62.[32]
- May 26: Friz Freleng, American animator and cartoonist (Looney Tunes, The Pink Panther), dies at age 88.[33]
June
July
- July 4: Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (voice of Duchess in The Aristocats, Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under), dies at age 76.[35]
- July 25: Balthasar Lippisch, German illustrator, caricaturist, animator and comics artist (worked on the TV series Pip & Zip), dies at age 74 or 75.[36]
August
September
- September 5: Paul Julian, American animator, background artist (My Little Pony: The Movie, ), sound effects artist (Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voice actor (Road Runner), dies at age 81.[38]
- September 12: Lubomír Beneš, Czech animator and director (co-creator of Pat & Mat), dies at age 59.
- September 21:
- Irven Spence, American animator (Charles Mintz, Ub Iwerks, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Chuck Jones, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 86.[39] [40] [41]
- Ken Willard, American animator (Gumby Adventures, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Bump in the Night, , Toy Story), dies at age 36.
- September 22: John Whitney, American animator, composer, and inventor (Five Film Exercises, co-animated the opening sequence of Vertigo), dies at age 78.[42]
- September 25: Kei Tomiyama, Japanese voice actor dies at 56.[43] [44] [45]
October
- October 5: Linda Gary, American actress (voice of Queen Salena in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Teela, the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, Evil-Lyn, and Queen Marlena in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time franchise, Entrapta, Madame Razz, Scorpia, Shadow Weaver, and Glimmer in , Chromia in The Transformers, Aunt May in seasons 1-3 of Spider-Man, Nora Crest in , Dr. Abby Sinian in ), dies at age 50.[46]
- October 13: Michael Lah, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Company, worked for Tex Avery), dies at age 83.
- October 21: Maxene Andrews, American singer (co-sang the "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" segment in Make Mine Music and "Little Toot" in Melody Time), dies at age 79.[47] [48]
- October 23: Mary Wickes, American actress (live-action model for Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians, voice of Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at age 85.[49] [50]
November
- November 4: Jackie Banks, American animation checker and scene planner (Hanna-Barbera, This Is America, Charlie Brown, The Simpsons, ), dies at age 54.
- November 9: Robert O. Cook, American sound engineer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 92.
- November 16: Charles Gordone, American playwright, actor, director, educator and actor (voice of Preacher Fox in Coonskin), dies at age 70.
- November 19: Wan Guchan, Chinese animator, film director (founder of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter, Uproar in the Studio, The Camel's Dance, Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven, Why is the Crow Black-Coated), dies at age 95.[51]
December
- December 4: Petar Gligorovski, Macedonian painter, comics artist, animator and film director (Adam 5 do 12), dies at age 57.[52]
- December 20: Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (voice of Sarabi in The Lion King), dies from leukemia at age 57.[53]
- December 30: Doris Grau, American actress (voice of Lunchlady Doris in The Simpsons, Doris Grossman in The Critic), dies at age 71.[54]
Specific date unknown
See also
External links
Notes and References
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- Book: The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons . Nichola . Dobson . Scarecrow Press . 28 . 978-1461664024 . 2010 . October 6, 2023.
- Web site: SHOWS FOR YOUNGSTERS AND THEIR PARENTS TOO: For fall, a classically restyled puddy tat and Felix the Cat . Articles.latimes.com . 1995-08-27 . May 24, 2024.
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- Web site: Film: The Man Who Would Be Walt. archive.nytimes.com.
- News: Timesstaff. 25 old films honored. St. Petersburg Times. December 28, 1995. July 22, 2009.
- Web site: Complete National Film Registry Listing . Library of Congress. August 2, 2020.
- Daniel Eagan, America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies (London: Bloomsbury, 2011).
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- News: Samantha Weinstein Dies: 'Alias Grace', 'Carrie' Remake Actor Was 28 . . Greg . Evans . May 25, 2023 . May 26, 2023.
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- Web site: Balthasar Lippisch. lambiek.net. April 7, 2018.
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-13-mn-34742-story.html Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies at 91
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