''Roland and Rattfink'' is an American series of animated shorts produced and released from 1968 to 1971. The main characters also made several guest appearances on ''The Pink Panther'' animated series. The series was produced by
David H. DePatie
David Hudson DePatie (; December 24, 1929 – September 23, 2021) was an American film and television producer who was the last and longest-lived executive in charge of the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He also formed DePatie–Freleng ...
and
Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (; August 21, 1905May 26, 1995), credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, Film director, director, Film producer, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons ...
and seventeen cartoons were produced.
Plot
The cartoons concerned blond, muscular, handsome, pacifist "good guy" Roland and the many attempts by the evil, weedy, green-skinned (in most of the cartoons), mustachioed Rattfink to defeat or dispose of him.
[
Roland and Rattfink were both voiced by ]Lennie Weinrib
Leonard Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006) was an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show '' H.R. Pufnstuf'', Grimace in McDonaldland commercials, the title role i ...
(except in "The Deadwood Thunderball" where they were voiced by John Byner
John Byner (né Biener; born June 28, 1938) is an American actor, comedian and impressionist who has had a lengthy television and film career. His voice work includes the cartoon series '' The Ant and the Aardvark'', in which the title characte ...
and Dave Barry
David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally Print syndication, syndicated humor column for the ''Miami Herald'' from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as we ...
).[
"Hurts and Flowers" (one long, running joke about Rattfink destroying flower child Roland's daisies) concludes with Rattfink getting killed and Roland leaving a daisy in a flowerpot on his grave. When Roland walks away, Rattfink's ghost rises from the grave to throw the flowerpot at him.
]
Filmography
Home video
The series was released January 27, 2009 on DVD from MGM Home Entertainment
MGM Home Entertainment LLC (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, d/b/a MGM Home Entertainment and formerly known as MGM Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video) is the home video distribution arm of the American med ...
/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Home Entertainment (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC. and also known as 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment) was a home video distribution arm that distributes films produced by 20th Century Stud ...
as a part of ''The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection''. The individual shorts were released on DVD and Blu-Ray on June 28, 2016 by Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City. Founded in 1977, it was originally known as Kino International until it was acquired by and merged into Lorber HT Digital in 2009. It specializes in art film, art ho ...
, and are also available to stream on Hulu
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.
See also
* List of ''The Pink Panther'' cartoons
References
External links
''Roland and Rattfink''
at the Big Cartoon Database
The Big Cartoon DataBase (or BCDB for short) was an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows, and cartoon shorts.
The BCDB project began in 1997 as a list of Disney animated f ...
.
''Roland and Ratfink''
icat Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is an online encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001. Donald D. Markstein, the sole writer and editor of Toonopedi ...
Archived
from the original on January 19, 2017.
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Animated film series
Fictional duos
Film series introduced in 1968
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
Television series by MGM Television
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
United Artists animated films
The Pink Panther Show
Animated characters introduced in 1968