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Fred Ladd
Born
Fred Laderman

(1927-02-19)February 19, 1927
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeAshes scattered at sea
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Film producer, writer
Years active1958–1995[1]
Known forAnimations (Writing, Producing, Directing)
Children2

Fred Laderman

animated cartoons
to the Americas.

Biography

Ladd, a

dubbing the films for the American market.[2][3]

Ladd became the house specialist in the "

TV stations from the late 1950s through the early 1960s.[2][3]

Ladd co-operated with

William Cayton in producing a film and television serial version of the Czech film Journey to the Beginning of Time
.

Producer

Universal in late 1965 as Pinocchio in Outer Space. Prescott later brought Ladd in as co-writer and co-producer on his home-grown 1972 Filmation feature Journey Back to Oz
.

But it was an earlier involvement with

pilot episode, eventually leading to the long-running series Astro Boy—the inaugural appearance of anime on Western shores.[2][3][4] Ladd removed references to Asian religion in favor of Christianity and removed scenes to violence and nudity due to it being to risky for NBC's standard and practices and to the Western audience.[1] One incident happened where a samurai in the series was considered as violent. When Ladd flew to Mushi Productions in 1964 and explained the violent nature, they didn't understand, and they compared it to police brutality in the US. They wanted him to explain it, and Ladd just simply said it's because of cultural differences. Animation like a robber holding a rifle to a poor man's head begging for money and a bachelor seeing pictures of nude women were cut by Ladd by being over the top violence, and he explained to Tezuka about the nude women "Sorry, Mr. Tezuka, we couldn't save that, if I ended up with all those shots, we wound up with a 2 minute program."[4] Tezuka would later dub Ladd "the godfather of Astro Boy", due to the lucrative business of America's involvement in anime after it aired.[1]

Ladd continued his involvement in early anime imports with

DiC Entertainment.[2][3][1]

Ladd was also responsible for having various black-and-white cartoons for his company called Color Systems Inc. such as Looney Tunes, Betty Boop, and others to be redrawn colorized in South Korea from 1968 to 1974.[5] He died on August 3, 2021, at the age of 94 from natural causes.[6][1]

Screenwriting

Anime television series dubs

Original television scripts

Foreign film dubs

Original film scripts

Bibliography

  • Fred Ladd with Harvey Deneroff, Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insider's View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon (McFarland, Jefferson NC, 2008)
    ISBN 0-7864-3866-5

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Deneroff, Harvey (August 16, 2021). "Fred Ladd, The Godfather of "Astro Boy" (1927-2021)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Toledo Blade article/interview, 22 May 2004 Archived October 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b c d e f Animation World Network interview at AWN.com
  4. ^ a b c d "Anime Industry Interviews Episode 4: Writer / Producer Fred Ladd". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 20, 2021.
  5. ^ "CARTOON RESEARCH FAQ 2". Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  6. ^ Alex, Mateo (August 10, 2021). "American Anime Pioneer, Astro Boy Anime Producer Fred Ladd Passes Away at 94". Retrieved August 16, 2021.

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