Børge Ring
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Animated short film writer, director and animator | |
Years active | 1947 – c. 1999 |
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Børge Ring (17 February 1921 – 27 December 2018) was a Danish
Personal life and death
Børge Ring was the son of composer Oluf Ring.[1] He was born in Ribe, Denmark, and his family later moved to Funen.[1] He married his first wife, concert pianist Nanny Elisabeth Wegener in 1944 - she died in Amsterdam in 1957 of heart failure. In 1971 he married his second wife Joanika Zwart,[2] who worked as a sculptor,[1] and they had two children.[2]
Ring died on 27 December 2018 at the age of 97.[2][3]
Career
Early in his career Ring was active as a jazz contrabassist and guitarist, performing in several bands.[4] Ring worked on an adaption of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Tinderbox, which was the first Danish animated feature.[5] In 1947, Ring and his friend Arne Rønde Christensen opened up a cartoon studio in Copenhagen.[3][6] The studio started by doing commercials.[3] In 1952, Ring moved to the Netherlands to work for Toonder Studios.[3] He worked for them until 1973, when he moved to London to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios.[2]
His 1978 short film Oh My Darling won the Best Short Film award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival,[7] and was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film award at the 1979 Academy Awards.[6][8][9] The short was redubbed and aired on television in the United States as part of the short-lived series Jokebook.[citation needed] He worked on the introduction to the 1983 film Curse of the Pink Panther.[6] Ring directed the 1984 short film Anna & Bella, which won the Best Animated Short Film award at the 1985 Academy Awards.[7][10][11] In 1986, Ring composed a flute song for the Danish cartoon Valhalla.[11] His 1999 short film Run of the Mill, which focused on the effects of taking drugs, won a UNICEF Children's Award in 2000.[7] Ring also worked on It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), Heavy Metal (1981), and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993).[7]
Later years
In 2003, Ring became a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[2] In 2012, the main award of the Danish Animation Society was renamed The Børge Ring Award.[7] In the same year, he won the Winsor McCay Award.[7][12] In 2014, his autobiography was published.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Ripenser skriver mindeord om Børge Ring: Han var en ener". JydskeVestkysten (in Danish). 29 December 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Vos, Tom (28 December 2018). "Oscarwinaar Børge Ring (97) uit Overlangel overleden". BK.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Oscar-vinderen Børge Ring er død" (in Danish). Ekko Film. 29 October 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ "Børge Ring". lambiek.net. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ Vinterberg, Søren (September 2005). "From The Tinder Box To The Ugly Duckling". Danish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 January 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ a b c Clausen, Nicklas Skyum (28 December 2018). "En af de helt store er væk: Dansk Oscar-vinder død". Newsbreak (in Danish). Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Sarto, Dan (28 December 2018). "Academy Award-Winning Animator Børge Ring Dies at 97". Animation World Network. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1978". cartoonresearch.com.
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- ^ a b "Den oscarvindende danske animator Børge Ring er død". Politiken (in Danish). 29 December 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Børge Ring R.I.P. – Animation Scoop". www.animationscoop.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.