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11 unusual facts about Ralph Bakshi


Battle of the Hornburg

The Battle of the Hornburg is a key part of Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation.

Candy Candido

Other animated films with Candido voices: Chuck Jones' adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth, and the Ralph Bakshi movies Hey Good Lookin' and Heavy Traffic.

Frank de Kova

He played Abiram in The Ten Commandments, appeared in Cowboy (1958) with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon, and in The Mechanic (1972) with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent and the Ralph Bakshi film American Pop.

Krymchaks

A few hundred Krymchaks still clinging to their Crimean identity live in the United States and Israel: animator Ralph Bakshi is the most famous of these.

Last Days of Coney Island

Last Days of Coney Island is an upcoming project written, produced, directed and animated by filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, about a NYPD detective, the prostitute he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City's run-down amusement district.

Meriadoc Brandybuck

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, Merry was voiced by Simon Chandler.

Minor battles in The Lord of the Rings

Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings follows the book faithfully, even keeping its structure.

Ralph Bakshi also expands on this scene a little by having Boromir fight the Watcher who is similarly interpreted, after Sam.

Philip Stone

In the 1978 Ralph Bakshi's animated film The Lord of the Rings, he voiced the role of Théoden.

Simon Chandler

Chandler voiced the role of Merry in the 1978 Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lockers

The group was animated for their appearance in the 1982 film Hey Good Lookin' directed by Ralph Bakshi.


Barliman Butterbur

Butterbur appears in both Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1978) and Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), but in both adaptations most of his scenes, including the references to Gandalf's letter, are cut.

South Salem, New York

Notable residents have included the 33rd Vice President of the United States Henry A. Wallace, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, the photographer O. Winston Link, the artist Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965), the pianist Hélène Grimaud, the composer and arranger Clare Grundman, the artist and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, the singer and musical stage headliner Sally Ann Howes, and the actress Colleen Dewhurst.

Steve Krantz

After firing Shamus Culhane from the animator's supervising director job on Rocket Robin Hood, director Ralph Bakshi and background artist Johnnie Vita were brought to Toronto, not knowing that Krantz and producer Al Guest were in the middle of a lawsuit.

Vaughn Bodē

Bodē was a friend of animator Ralph Bakshi, and warned him against working with Robert Crumb on the animated film adaptation of Crumb's strip Fritz the Cat.