Jack Zander

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Jack Zander
Born	May 3, 1908 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Died	December 17, 2007 (age 99) Pound Ridge, New York, United States
Occupation	Animator

Arthur Jack Zander (May 3, 1908 – December 17, 2007)^[1] was an American animator whose career lasted from the "golden age" of theatrical animation into the 1980s.

Biography

Jack Zander was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Among the cartoons he helped animate were Puss Gets the Boot (1940), The Midnight Snack (1941) The Night Before Christmas (1941), Fraidy Cat (1942), Fine Feathered Friend (1942), War Dogs (1943) and Sufferin' Cats! (1943).

In 1970, he formed Zander's Animation Parlour in New York City where he made commercials for AT&T, Nick Jr., Kraft Foods, Arm & Hammer, Pepsi, America's Health Network (where he created what would later become BrainPOP), One Saturday Morning and more until his retirement. In 1984, he created "Tippi Turtle", an obnoxious character who enjoyed playing practical jokes, in three animated shorts Saturday Night Live.^[2]^[3] Zander died at his home in New York in 2007.

Awards

Zander was nominated for an Outstanding Animated Program Emmy in 1981 for Gnomes, and in 1984 he won the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists' Golden Award.

Footnotes

↑ Fox, Margalit. "Jack Zander, Animator of Early TV Commercials, Dies at 99" The New York Times, December 20, 2007]
↑ Tippi Turtle at the Big Cartoon DataBase
↑ Tippi Turtle at SNL Archives

References

July 2007 interview with Animation World

External links

Jack Zander at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Zander, Jack
Alternative names
Short description	American animator
Date of birth	May 3, 1908
Place of birth	Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Date of death	December 17, 2007
Place of death	Pound Ridge, New York, United States

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