Clive A. Smith
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| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) London, England |
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| Spouse | Melleny Melody |
| Children | Zach Smith |
Clive A. Smith (often credited as Clive Smith) is a British expatriate director and animator who, along with Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, founded Canadian animation studio Nelvana in 1971.[1]
Life and career
Smith worked on some of his studio's first TV specials,Rock and Rule,[4] as well as its 1997 animated adaptation of the Pippi Longstocking saga. Smith's directing credits also include "A Wookiee's Christmas" (also known as "The Faithful Wookiee") for George Lucas and eight episodes of Family Dog for Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg. Smith retired from Nelvana in 2001, the year after he and his co-founders sold the studio to Corus Entertainment.
Smith was born in
The Lone Ranger. In 1967, he moved to Canada and worked as a senior animator and designer on commercials and short films with Al Guest and Vladimir Goetzleman. It was during this time that he met Hirsh and Loubert, and later went on to co-found Nelvana.[5]
Since leaving Nelvana, Smith co-founded Musta Costa Fortune with
Melleny Melody.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Three men and a bear: Nelvana at 25", Take One, Autumn 1996
- ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1977 -". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ The Making of Rock and Rule-Internet Archive
- ^ a b Biography Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, Social Game Universe
External links
- Clive A. Smith at IMDb
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