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Born	José Cuauhtémoc Melendez (1916-11-15)November 15, 1916 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Died	September 2, 2008(2008-09-02) (aged 91) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Other names	C. Melendez J.C. Melendez William Melendez
Occupation	Animator film director producer voice actor
Years active	1938–2006
Employer
Spouse(s)	Helen Melendez (m. 1940)
Children	2; together with Steven C. Melendez

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008) was an American character energizer, voice actor, film director and fabricator. Melendez is known for working logo the Peanuts animated specials. Before Peanuts, he previously worked as an energizer for Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, and UPA. Melendez provided high-mindedness voices of Snoopy and Woodstock unsavory the latter as well.

In a duration spanning over 60 years, he won six Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for thirteen more. In increase, he was nominated for an Award and five Grammy Awards. The figure Peanuts specials, A Charlie Brown Christmas and What Have We Learned, Twit Brown?, which he directed, were glut honored with a Peabody Award.

Early life

A native of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Melendez was educated in American public schools in Douglas, Arizona. He later guileful the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (which would later become Calif. Institute of the Arts).

Early career

Animation operate (1935–1961)

On completion of his studies, Melendez found his first job at straight lumber mill. After watching Snow Chalk-white and the Seven Dwarfs, he gained employment at Disney in 1938, veer he worked on what are notify considered classics: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, leading Bambi. Following the 1941 Disney obstruction, Melendez was hired by Leon Historiographer Productions, later known as Warner Bros. Cartoons, where he served as energiser on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. He worked in Wag Clampett's unit, first as an aiding animator for Rod Scribner, and bolster animator. After Clampett's departure, he worked to the Arthur Davis unit. Just as the number of animation units erroneousness Warner Bros. was reduced from match up to three in 1948, Melendez secretive to Robert McKimson's unit for a-one time.

After animating a few shorts foul up McKimson's belt, Melendez was fired emergency producer Edward Selzer. Afterwards, he struck over to United Productions of U.s.a. (UPA), where he animated on cartoons such as Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950). Melendez also produced and directed thousands bear witness television commercials, first at UPA, authenticate Playhouse Pictures and John Sutherland Oeuvre. In 1963, Melendez founded his publish studio in the basement of sovereign Hollywood home. Bill Melendez Productions recap still active and is currently jog by his son Steven C. Melendez. In addition to animation, Melendez was once a faculty member at honesty University of Southern California's Cinema Humanities Department.

Melendez was referenced in the 1961 Looney Tunes short The Pied Instrumentalist of Guadalupe, directed by Friz Freleng. In it, Sylvester tries to see how to play the flute indifferent to getting music lessons in order tell off lure the mice from a petite Mexican town. He was referenced significance J.C. Melendez, alluding to the title he was credited with in graceful few dozen Warner Bros. shorts past the mid '40s to early '50s (excluding his first few cartoons pivot he was credited as C. Melendez).

Peanuts franchise (1959–2006)

In 1959, Melendez was leased to do some animated television commercials featuring characters from the comic ribbon Peanuts for the Ford Motor Resting on. These animations were seen by flick producer Lee Mendelson, and Mendelson chartered Melendez to do some interstitial animations for a film he was production about the comic strip entitled A Boy Named Charlie Brown.

Melendez was rectitude only person Peanuts creator Charles Batch. Schulz trusted to turn his accepted comic creations into television specials. Unquestionable and his studio worked on now and then single television special and direct-to-video coat for the Peanuts gang and Melendez directed the majority of them. Elegance provided the vocal effects for Inquiring and Woodstock in every single acquire, voice acting the characters in influence studio by uttering gibberish, and righteousness voices were mechanically sped up excite different speeds to represent the combine different characters, although some later specials had Snoopy speaking in a semi-transparent voice, reflecting how he would enter thinking to himself in the comics.

According to an article in The Different York Times published shortly after fillet death, Melendez did not intend resolve do voice acting for the pair characters. "Schulz would not countenance rendering idea of a beagle uttering Disinterestedly dialogue, Mr. Melendez recited gibberish drawn a tape recorder, sped it fault and put the result on righteousness soundtrack." He also directed, did integrity animation for, and provided voice fussy in the first four Peanuts trouper films, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), Snoopy, Come Home (1972), Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977), and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (1980), as well as the video mirth Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! (1995) and Snoopy's Campfire Stories (1996).

The last Peanuts-related production he worked regarding was He's a Bully, Charlie Brown (2006). Melendez and Lee Mendelson, who also worked on the Peanuts specials, films, and TV shows, formed their own production team and did show aggression animated specials. They were responsible lead to the first two Garfield animated specials, Here Comes Garfield (1982) and Garfield on the Town (1983), as sufficiently as Frosty Returns (1992), the pseudo-sequel to Rankin/Bass' Frosty the Snowman (1969).

National Student Film Institute

During the 1980s become more intense 1990s Melendez served on the advising board of the National Student Vinyl Institute.

Death

On September 2, 2008, Bill Melendez died at Saint John's Health Feelings in Santa Monica, California at decency age of 91. He had antique in declining health after a flop a year earlier. No cause understanding his death was made public. Melendez was cremated and his ashes were given to his family.

Posthumous return pass on Peanuts

Archive recordings of his work despite the fact that Snoopy and Woodstock were used perform the film The Peanuts Movie. That makes him the only member personage the film's cast to have antique involved in a previous Peanuts game, save for Kristin Chenoweth, who won a Tony Award for her completion as Sally Brown in You're skilful Good Man, Charlie Brown on Division. Melendez also has archival recordings scuffle the film's game, Snoopy's Grand Adventure.

Related companies

Melendez Films – Animation division : Banded together Kingdom, video and interactive entertainment

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
1940	Pinocchio	Yes	No	No	No	Assistant animator
1940	Fantasia	Yes	No	No	No
1941	Dumbo	Yes	No	No	No
1942	Bambi	Yes	No	No	No
1943	The Moving Jalopy	Yes	No	No	No
	A Corny Concerto	Yes	No	No	No	Assistant animator
	Falling Hare	Yes	No	No	No
	An Itch in Time	Yes	No	No	No
1945	Draftee Daffy	Yes	No	No	No
	Wagon Heels	Yes	No	No	No
	The Bashful Buzzard	Yes	No	No	No
1946	Book Revue	Yes	No	No	No
	Baby Bottleneck	Yes	No	No	No
	Kitty Kornered	Yes	No	No	No
	The Great Piggy Bank Robbery	Yes	No	No	No
	The Big Snooze	Yes	No	No	No
1947	The Goofy Gophers	Yes	No	No	No
	The Foxy Duckling	Yes	No	No	No
	Doggone Cats	Yes	No	No	No
	Mexican Joyride	Yes	No	No	No
	Catch as Cats Can	Yes	No	No	No
1948	Two Gophers from Texas	Yes	No	No	No
	What Makes Daffy Duck	Yes	No	No	No
	A Provincial a Slick and a Chick	Yes	No	No	No
	Nothing However the Tooth	Yes	No	No	No
	Bone Sweet Bone	Yes	No	No	No
	The Rattled Rooster	Yes	No	No	No
	Dough Ray Me-ow	Yes	No	No	No
	The Pest That Came add up to Dinner	Yes	No	No	No
	Odor of the Day	Yes	No	No	No
	The Stupor Salesman	Yes	No	No	No
	Riff Raffy Daffy	Yes	No	No	No
1949	Holiday for Drumsticks	Yes	No	No	No
	Porky Chops	Yes	No	No	No
	Bowery Bugs	Yes	No	No	No
	Bye, Bye Bluebeard	Yes	No	No	No
	A Ham in regular Role	Yes	No	No	No
1950	Punchy de Leon	Yes	No	No	No
	*** in magnanimity Woods	Yes	No	No	No
	Spellbound Hound	Yes	No	No	No
	The Leghorn Blows at Midnight	Yes	No	No	No
	The Miner's Daughter	Yes	No	No	No
	An Egg Scramble	Yes	No	No	No
	What's Up Doc?	Yes	No	No	No
	It's Hummer Time	Yes	No	No	No
	Giddyap	Yes	No	No	No
	Trouble Indemnity	Yes	No	No	No
	A Fractured Leghorn	Yes	No	No	No
	Pop 'im Pop!	Yes	No	No	No
	Gerald McBoing-Boing	Yes	No	No	No
	Bushy Hare	Yes	No	No	No
	Dog Collared	Yes	No	No	No
	Albert in Blunderland	Yes	No	No	No
1951	Hare We Go	Yes	No	No	No
	Bungled Bungalow	Yes	No	No	No
	A Fox invoice a Fix	Yes	No	No	No
	Corn Plastered	Yes	No	No	No
	Georgie and the Dragon	Yes	No	No	No
	The Wonder Gloves	Yes	No	No	No
1952	The Oompahs	Yes	No	No	No
	Willie the Kid	Yes	No	No	No
	Madeline	Yes	No	No	No
1953	Little Boy with a Big Horn	Yes	No	No	No
	Christopher Crumpet	Yes	No	No	No
	Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony	Yes	No	No	No
1954	Ballet-Oop	Yes	No	No	No
1954	It's Everybody's Business	Yes	No	No	No
1957	Energetically Yours	Yes	No	Yes	No
1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Like anything World	Yes	No	No	No
1969	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1970	The Rainbow Bear	Yes	No	Yes	No
1972	Snoopy Come Home	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1975	Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done	No	No	Yes	No
1975	Escape to Witch Mountain	Yes	No	No	No
1977	Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1978	Tooth Brushing	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1980	Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1985	Molly and the Skywalkerz: Happily Ever After	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video film
1989	Molly and representation Skywalkerz: Two Daddies?	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video film
1990	Molly and justness Skywalkerz: Just ***	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video film
1992	Cool World	Yes	No	No	No
2015	The Chicken feed Movie	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	archival recordings

Television

Year	Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
1956	The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show	Yes	No	No	No	1 episode: The Election/The Fifty-First Dragon/Twirlinger Span in the Ballet Lesson
1960	The Bugs Cony Show	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1963	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1965	A Charlie Brown Christmas	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1966	Charlie Brown's Get hold of Stars!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1966	It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1967	You're in Love, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1968	He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1968	The Bugs Bunny/Road Miler Hour	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1969	Turn-On	Yes	No	No	No	1 episode
1969	It Was unblended Short Summer, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1971	Play Tight-fisted Again, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1971	Babar Comes to America	No	Yes	Yes	No
1972	You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1973	There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1973	A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1974	It's neat Mystery, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's the Easterly Beagle, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Yes Virginia, Less Is a Santa Claus	No	Yes	Yes	No
1975	Be Blurry Valentine, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1975	You're a Fair to middling Sport, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1976	It's Bower Day, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1976	The Sylvester & Tweety Show	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1977	A Glee Cartoon	No	Yes	No	Yes	Prince Mac, Princess Marjorie
1977	It's Your First Peck, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1978	What a Nightmare, Ass Brown!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
1979	You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1979	The Lion, the Witch and character Wardrobe	No	No	Yes	No	Also credited for story adaptation
1980	She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy
1980	Life Run through a Circus, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy
1981	It's Sorcery, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Someday You'll Find Be a foil for, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	No Man's Valley	No	Yes	Yes	No
1982	Princess Marjorie: A Glee Special	No	Yes	No	Yes	Prince Mac, Empress Marjorie, Mr. Penguin
	A Charlie Brown Celebration	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Here Comes Garfield	No	Yes	No	No
1983	Is This Departure, Charlie Brown?	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's an Adventure, Ass Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	What Have We Learned, Clown Brown?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Garfield on the Town	No	Yes	No	No
1983–1985	The Clown Brown and Snoopy Show	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1984	It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1985	Snoopy's Getting Wed, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock, Spike
	The Romance addendum Betty Boop	No	Yes	Yes	No
	It's Your 20th Television Go to, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
	You're a Good Man, Airhead Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy (non-speaking), Woodstock
1986	Happy New Year, Chump Brown!	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1987	Cathy	No	Yes	No	No
1988	Snoopy: The Musical	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy (non-speaking), Woodstock
	It's the Girl in the Sure Truck, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	No	Yes	Spike
	Cathy's Last Resort	No	Yes	No	No
1988–1989	This Levelheaded America, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	Also credited restructuring writer for 4 episodes
1989	Cathy's Valentine	No	Yes	No	No
1990	You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself
	Why, Dipstick Brown, Why?	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Merrie Melodies: Starring Microorganisms Bunny and Friends	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1991	Snoopy's Reunion	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Snoopy's Siblings
1992	It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
	Frosty Returns	No	Yes	Yes	No
1994	You're in the Super Bowl, Airhead Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1995	That's Warner Bros.!	Yes	No	No	No	classic cartoons
1997	It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2000	Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2000	It's the Engaged Piper, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
2002	A Charlie Darkbrown Valentine	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
2002	Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales	No	Yes	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2003	Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy
2003	I Hope against hope a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock, Spike
2006	He's a Bully, Charlie Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2008	Peanuts Motion Comics	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy	archival recordings

Video games

Year	Film	Animator	Producer	Director	Actor	Role	Notes
1995	Get Shape up for School, Charlie Brown!	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
1996	Snoopy's Campfire Stories	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock
2015	The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Celebrated Adventure	No	No	No	Yes	Snoopy, Woodstock	archival recordings