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Dumb And Dumber (TV Series)
''Dumb and Dumber'' (also known as ''Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series'') is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and New Line Television for ABC. It is based on the 1994 film. It premiered in October 1995, making it the last Hanna-Barbera show to air on a television channel other than Cartoon Network. Matt Frewer provided the voice of Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey's character in the film), while Bill Fagerbakke voiced the character of Harry Dunn (Jeff Daniels' character in the movie). The animated series was written by Bennett Yellin, co-writer of the original film. The series was cancelled after one season. ''Dumb and Dumber'' was one of three animated series based on Jim Carrey films premiering in the same year; the others are the 1995–2000 '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' series, and the 1995–1997 '' The Mask: Animated Series''. Premise The cartoon revolves around the continued misadventures of Lloyd and Harry after reacquiring their dog shaped van n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Feiss
David Feiss (born April 16, 1959) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter and director. Feiss began his career working for Hanna-Barbera in the late 1970s. He received his first credit for the 1981 adult animated film '' Heavy Metal''. He gained notoriety throughout the late 1980s and 1990s as an animator for '' Jetsons: The Movie'', '' Once Upon a Forest'', '' The Town Santa Forgot'' and ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', among others. In 1995, Cartoon Network, in search of aspiring creators of original programming, launched their animated series '' What a Cartoon!'', which featured a showcase of animated shorts from up-and-coming animators, including Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Van Partible. Feiss' pilot, "No Smoking", was among the first shorts broadcast on the network and follows the unconventional sibling rivalry between a young cow named Cow and her older brother, a chicken named Chicken, as well as their human parents. The pilot was approved by the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards. He made his film debut in Miloš Forman's drama ''Ragtime'' (1981) followed by James L. Brooks's ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983), and Mike Nichols's ''Heartburn'' (1986). He then received three Golden Globe Award nominations for Woody Allen's '' The Purple Rose of Cairo'' (1985), Jonathan Demme's '' Something Wild'' (1986), and Noah Baumbach's ''The Squid and the Whale'' (2005). He starred in a variety of genre films such as ''Gettysburg (1993 film), Gettysburg'' (1993), ''Speed (1994 film), Speed'' (1994), ''Dumb and Dumber'' (1994), ''101 Dalmatians (1996 film), 101 Dalmatians'' (1996), and ''Pleasantville (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including Television advertisement, advertising. It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC1 and BBC2, and a single commercial broadcasting network, ITV (TV network), ITV. Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoon Network (British And Irish TV Channel)
Cartoon Network (commonly abbreviated as CN) is a British pay television channel aimed at children which airs animated programming targeting children and young aged 6 to 12.Turner Broadcasting comes of age with Cartoon Network HD , News , Rapid TV News It is run by under its EMEA division. The channel primarily airs animated programming. The channel ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Line Cinema
New Line Productions, Inc., Trade name, doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film production, film and television production company that is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, a division of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studio Warner Bros., which, in turn, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It is headquartered in Burbank, California. The studio was founded on June 18, 1967 by Robert Shaye in New York City, and has been operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures since 2008. After becoming a film studio after acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in 1994, Turner later merged with Time Warner Entertainment (later known as WarnerMedia from 2018 to 2022, and Warner Bros. Discovery since 2022) in 1996, and New Line was merged with Warner Bros. Pictures in 2008. New Line Cinema is currently one of the four live-action film studios within the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, the others being Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film ''Steamboat Willie.'' The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon. After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Morning Cartoon
"Saturday-morning cartoon" is a colloquial term for the original animated series and live-action programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the United States on the "Big Three" television networks. The genre was a tradition from broadly the mid-1960s to mid-2010s; over time its popularity declined, in the face of changing cultural norms, increased competition from formats available at all times, and heavier media regulations. In the last years of the genre's existence, Saturday-morning and Sunday-morning cartoons were primarily created and aired on major networks to meet "educational and informational" (E/I) requirements. Minor television networks, in addition to the non-commercial PBS in some markets, continued to air animated programming on Saturday and Sunday while partially meeting those mandates. In the United States, the generally accepted times for these and other children's programs to air on Saturday mornings were from 8:00 a.m. to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Kimball
Billy Kimball (born July 8, 1959) is an American writer and producer. He was a co-executive producer on the acclaimed HBO series ''Veep''. Personal life He was born in New York City, attended Trinity School, and graduated from Harvard College where he was an editor of the ''Harvard Lampoon''. He is currently married to the former Alexandra Manuela Vargas Hamilton and has two daughters and a son. Career Kimball began his career writing for the HBO series '' Not Necessarily the News''. He was the host and executive producer of the satiric game show ''Clash!'' and the co-host (with Denis Leary) of the talk show ''Afterdrive'' both on the Ha! Network, a predecessor of Comedy Central. As a writer, Kimball has worked on ''Saturday Night Live'', ''Cedric the Entertainer Presents'', and ''Lateline''. He wrote the Independent Spirit Awards ten times since 2002 and served as a producer on the show six times since 2005. He has written nine episodes of ''The Simpsons'', and co-wrote e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Reynolds (screenwriter)
David Reynolds is an American screenwriter. He is known for having written animated movies such as ''Finding Nemo'' (2003) and ''The Emperor's New Groove'' (2000). Biography In the early 1990s, he became a television writer. He made his writing debut on the late-night television series, '' Late Night with Conan O'Brien.'' Afterwards, he started to transition into film with his theatrical debut providing additional story material on ''Mulan''. After the success of ''Mulan'', Disney gave Reynolds a 'six-year contract' deal to work for both Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar Animation Studios. Some later works with the "Mouse-House" included additional writing on the story for ''A Bug's Life'', writer of the host segments on '' Fantasia 2000'', and got his official writing debut with ''The Emperor's New Groove.'' He went on to write with other writers on films like on '' Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' with Tab Murphy, '' The Jungle Book 2'' with Karl Geurs and Evan Spiliotop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Leopold
Glenn Leopold is an American writer and musician. He worked for Hanna-Barbera as a story editor, writer, character creator, and show developer. He is also a member of the rock band Gunhill Road. Screenwriting credits Television (series head writer denoted in bold) *'' CB Bears'' (1977) *'' Dinky Dog'' (1978) *'' Yogi's Space Race'' (1978) *'' The All-New Popeye Hour'' (1978-1981) *'' Buford and the Galloping Ghost'' (1979) *''Godzilla'' (1979) *'' The New Fred and Barney Show'' (1979) *'' The New Shmoo'' (1979) *'' Scooby and Scrappy Doo'' (1979) *'' Drak Pack'' (1980) *''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' (1980) *''The Smurfs'' (1981-1989) * '' Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince'' (1983) *''Lucky Luke'' (1983) *'' Shirt Tales'' (1983) *'' The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983-1984) *'' Super Friends'' (1984-1985) *'' Pink Panther and Sons'' (1984-1986) *'' Snorks'' (1985) *'' The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' (1985) *'' The Jetsons'' (1985) *'' Paw Paws'' (1986) *'' The New Adventures of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Butler Rote
Jason Butler Rote is an American television writer, known mainly for his work at Hanna-Barbera on Cartoon Network List of animated television series, animated television series like ''Dexter's Laboratory'' (1996–2003) and ''The Powerpuff Girls'' (1998–2005). He attended McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona, and graduated from the film department of California State University, Northridge. Filmography Other work In 1995 Rote, along with Mark Hughes and Joe LoCicero, published ''The Jetsons Character Reference Guide'' under the Hanna-Barbera label. Awards and nominations He and fellow writer Paul Rudish won an Annie Award in 1997 in the category "Best Individual Achievement: Writing in a TV Production" for their work on the ''Dexter's Laboratory'' episode "Beard to Be Feared". He was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards: in 1997 and 1998 for ''Dexter's Laboratory'' and in 1999 for ''The Powerpuff Girls''. References External links * American male s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Janson
Len Janson is an American writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s. He began work as an in-betweener at the Walt Disney cartoon studio. By 1965 he had become a story man with his first screen credit in Rudy Larriva's '' Boulder Wham!''. Soon after, he teamed with Chuck Menville to produce a series of live-action films which used the pixilation technique. An example is '' Stop Look and Listen''. By the early 1970s, Janson and Menville had become major names in the animation industry and welcome storytellers at studios such as Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. Their partnership ended with Menville's death in 1992. Janson remained active for a few more years, mainly as story editor for ''Sonic the Hedgehog''. He also wrote episodes of ''Baywatch Nights''. Screenwriting * series head writer denoted in bold Television * '' Dr. Kildare'' (1964) * '' Cattanooga Cats'' (1969) * ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
