Al Brodax (1926–2016)

Albert Philip Brodax was born in Manhattan, New York on February 14, 1926. He enlisted in the Army in 1943 and served as a medic. He was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Combat Medical Badge. He received a bachelor's degree in English näytä lisää literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1948. He found work in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency in New York and went on to become a television writer and producer, assigned to Your Show of Shows and Omnibus. He also helped produce a Broadway adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's book Winesburg, Ohio in 1958. In 1960, he was hired by King Features Syndicate to run its new motion picture and television division. After producing 220 Popeye cartoons, he collaborated with Bob Kane on the animated spy spoof Cool McCool and produced television versions of the comic strips Krazy Kat, Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith, and Barney Google. He produced The Beatles animated series, which ran on Saturday mornings from 1965 to 1969. In 1968, he turned the Beatles song Yellow Submarine into an animated film. It won an award from the New York Critics Circle for achievement in full-length animation. He produced a short-lived live-action television series based on the comic strip Blondie before leaving King Features for ABC. At ABC, he produced the Sunday-morning children's shows Make a Wish and Animals, Animals, Animals. In the 1980s, he worked as a consultant for Marvel Comics and Computer Graphics Laboratories. His book, Up Periscope Yellow: The Making of the Beatles Yellow Submarine, was published in 2004. He died on November 24, 2016 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän