Stu Rosen

Stu Rosen
Stu Rosen
Born	Stuart M. Rosen; June 26, 1939; Joliet, Illinois, U.S.
Died	August 4, 2019 (aged 80); Los Alamitos, California, U.S.
Alma mater	California State College, Long Beach
Occupations	Voice actor; puppeteer; director; writer;
Years active	1965–2019

Stuart M. Rosen (June 26, 1939 – August 4, 2019) was an American voice director and voice actor.

History

Shortly after graduating from California State College, Long Beach, Rosen got work as a production assistant at KCET. He wrote and starred in the TV series Dusty's Treehouse from 1968 to 1980.

Rosen voice directed many cartoons and commercials for television, including

Super Secret Secret Squirrel segments of 2 Stupid Dogs, Biker Mice from Mars

and many more.

Other such shows soon followed:

Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series directed by Andrea Romano, Gordon Hunt, Dan Hennessey and Tony Pastor, and Phantom 2040

also directed by Rosen.

Rosen had also had live-action roles in Rome and The Huntress.

Death

Rosen died on August 4, 2019, at the age of 80, from cancer.^[1]

Dusty's Treehouse

Dusty's Treehouse is a

Emmy Awards

.

Dusty's Treehouse originated from

O&O stations) and then appeared in reruns during the inaugural launching of the Nickelodeon

children's cable TV network for four additional seasons.

Carrying on in a traditional style similar to

Beauty & the Beast, Puss in Boots, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

. Topics included school performance, politics, music, behavior vs. misbehavior, kindness to others, good health habits, asking for help and even "being careful what you wish for," in an episode where Maxine magically becomes an ear of corn, Scooter becomes a walnut, Stanley becomes an apple and Dusty disappears. Jokes, songs and comic antics ensued, but always with a moral lesson to be learned. Sometimes a serious topic was tackled, ranging from Stanley coping with the death of his pet goldfish to Scooter being hit by a car for chasing a baseball out into traffic during game practice.

One episode involved Dusty himself learning a life lesson about how eating heavy food before bedtime (Maxine warns) causes nightmares; Dusty goes on a black light theatre journey through Nightmare Land and is chased by the menacing Mister Stomach Ache. But a new friend is made in the form of Sonja the gypsy fortune teller, a character who would reappear frequently in the show not by way of Nightmare Land.

In later seasons, the treehouse got a makeover and new supporting characters were introduced like Sunny and Stormy, two female puppets with opposing positive/negative viewpoints, and the mysterious Meef, a hairy, comical stranger with a pack-rat habit of swiping unguarded objects.