Jules Bass
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About
Writer, film and television director, and producer best known for his stop-motion animation work with Arthur Rankin, Jr. He served as executive producer for a 1980s animated television series called Thundercats.
Before Fame
After graduating from New York University, he began a production company called Videocraft International, which later became Rankin/Bass.
Trivia
He wrote a series of children's books focusing on a vegetable-eating dragon named Herb. He adapted multiple works by legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Family Life
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Associated With
He and screenwriter Deborah Kaplan both studied at New York University.
