Full Name	Ralph Bakshi
Net Worth	$600,000
Date Of Birth	October 29, 1938
Place Of Birth	Haifa, Palestine [now Israel]
Height	6' 3" (1.91 m)
Occupation	Director
Profession	Animation Department, Director, Producer
Spouse	Elisabeth Bassett Bakshi
Nicknames	Ralph Bakshi, Bakshi, Ralph
Star Sign	Scorpio

#	Trademark
1	Distinctive, raspy voice
2	Often blends animation with brief live-action backgrounds
3	Animated features specifically made for adults, often with a heavy use of rotoscoping

#	Quote
1	[on Richard William's The Thief and the Cobbler]: Over the years Richard would show me various magnificently animated sequences from the picture. Richard was very much like DeKooning, the painter, where he kept changing the finished product. It was fine when he was working for himself and I told him when he sold the film to WB that unless he met a delivery date there would be trouble. There was, and I never got to see the original cut, so I can't compare to what I saw in the theatre. I know when they took the film away from Richard and gave it to some hack animator to finish, it was like killing Richard's baby. It had a lot to do with him leaving the industry. When I had a fight on Heavy Traffic with the producer, half way through the film it was offered to Chuck Jones to finish. Chuck turned them down, saying it was Bakshi's film and only Bakshi's film. I didn't even know him at the time. Richard didn't have the same luck I had. But that's showbiz.
2	When you have a high budget, people are looking at you. Low budgets can be godsends for directors. Plus, with the number of people starving on this planet, it's just wrong to spend that kind of money on films. When you have no money, no one's looking at you, no one cares. No one cared when I was doing 'Fritz the Cat' (1972). Big budget films are filled with terror, filled with community consultations on all levels. But it's too much money for one man to handle and I'm not a great believer in collaboration. I believe in a directed film, and the vision of a director.
3	I never learned to animate. And I'm not trying to be cute, either. The minute you think you learned it, you're through. I've seen a lot of young animators coming up sensations. They get so good, so fast, so young, they never got any better, it's extraordinary to see. They never worked hard, so they don't get better. If you're an artist, you learn, you keep learning, you keep working.
4	You can't be a cartoonist, I don't care what kind of cartoonist you are, without having passed through this thing of loving fantasy.
5	None of my pictures were anything I could ever take my mother to see. You know it's working if you're making movies you don't want to your mother to see.
6	The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.
7	When I had my own company on Heavy Traffic (1973) and Coonskin (1975), all metaphors were able to get to the screen clearly. In Cool World (1992), with the producer and Paramount watching me carefully to make sure I was in good taste, I instinctively poured stuff into the picture that I wanted to talk about. But when you force stuff, it's not really very clear. But, I have a great love for Max Fleischer, especially some of his black-and-white Betty Boops with their strange Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong black folk tale jazz hipness that part of "Cool World" was a homage in style to those films and that style of cartooning. The Grim Reaper is right out of a Max Fleischer cartoon or old Terrytoons, which is why I hired and love Milton Knight the artist. He understands totally the Uncle Remus fable-like qualities behind Fleischer and Terrytoons. Milton Knight is probably the purest artist of that style in the business. He has a hard time because studios think he is old-fashioned . . . but that's the point.
8	[about Cool World (1992)] The original concept, way back when I sold the film, was that a live-action cartoonist would go to bed with a cartoon woman in the cartoon world. They had a child immediately that was a strange combination of live action and animation in one character. This son of the underground cartoonist hates himself for what he is and isn't and goes back to the real world to track his father down. The picture was originally an R-rated horror film. Slash and the rest of the characters in "Cool World" were just friends of Holli and looked nothing like their child.
9	[on working with My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult on the Cool World (1992) "Sex on Wheelz"] "They were very professional, very tired from all the years they were doing punk rock--and very, very funny. The band that consisted of women and men used the bathroom as a dressing and make-up room. Hysterical studio employees walked out shaking their heads. I shot 8mm home movies of that. It's in a box somewhere - I'll look for it. It was a one-day shoot - fast and furious.
10	Louise Zingarelli walked into my studio from Chicago and said to me that the guys that she worked with on the newspapers in Chicago told her that she should work for me. She was an extraordinary illustrator and a real tough lady. I thought her best work was Hey Good Lookin' (1982) and American Pop (1981).
11	[on directing The Rolling Stones music video of "The Harlem Shuffle"] I cast everyone and hired everyone - but my main concentration was taking care of the Stones. It was a lot of work choreographing . . . it was also a blizzard in New York the night we were shooting, and after I returned that night at 4 or 5 am they thought I had checked out without paying, so I spent the night in the lobby. The rest was a blur. Oh yes, there were about 350 groupies on the sound stage and various hangers around - and someone delivered three cases of Scotch or bourbon to Keith's [Keith Richards] room. I do remember that. Never saw them again! Oh yeah, Keith Richards loved the zoot suit he wore. I had to buy the suits from the costume department because he took them back to England. I loved that. Mick [Mick Jagger] had his purple suit tailored especially for him, so he owned that.
12	John and a bunch of guys were working for me in my studio on storyboards before Mighty Mouse. Bobby's Girl was the project, Tri-Star bought the movie. John and a bunch of other artists designed it [the same guys who went to work on Mighty Mouse]. I was the producer/director. The studio would then have sequence directors, designers etc. as usual. The president of Tri-Star, Jeff Sagansky, got fired. The project was canceled by Tri-Star. In panic I sold Mighty Mouse and decided to make John a director to train him on a TV series. Roughly speaking, after that, John really wanted his own studio to produce and direct himself and never really felt comfortable working for anyone else. Even his giant friend Ralph.
13	Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
14	I think it's impossible to do [J.R.R. Tolkien]. It's impossible to get the brilliance of what he wrote about -- just the medium, the book, the novel gives you other areas of imagination [that] film can't allow. Film has to describe and show. With the brilliance of his words and his scenes, you imagine whatever you want. I'm sure various people imagine different things.

#	Fact
1	Is considered to be one of the greatest animators of all time, held in the same rank as Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki.
2	Currently working on his latest feature film, "Last Days of Coney Island," his first picture in 11 years, and a graphic novel based on characters from his 1977 film "Wizards." Sequels to "Wizards" and "Coonskin" have also been mentioned/rumored as being in the works. [May 2005]
3	At one time wanted to make an animated feature-film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas'.
4	In the mid 1980's when Bakshi was depressed following the lack of support for his personal projects (i.e. Hey Good Lookin' (1982)) he read 'Cather in the Rye' and connected intensely with Holden Caulfield, and even figured out a way to make the narrative work cinematically by keeping the mental hospital scenes in live-action and the flashbacks animated. Bakshi wrote a letter to Salinger, a famous recluse who turned down many offers to adapt the book, where he poured out his heart about the book and his personal life. Bakshi ended up receiving a response in a letter from Salinger, where he appreciated the director's dedication and vision, but politely declined the offer since he could not see it becoming a film. Going through this process helped Bakshi get out of his creative rut, and he went on to do more work in the late 80's and early 90's before going into (semi) retirement from motion pictures.
5	Is friends with Dave Spafford.
6	Visualizes a scene by listening to music, which usually plays over the scene in the finished film.
7	Is an avid fan of Jean-Luc Godard.
8	Greatly dislikes and is very critical of Don Bluth's films.
9	Comedian Richard Pryor, film directors Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino and Wu-Tang Clan are credited as fans of Bakshi's film, Coonskin (1975). Tarantino wrote the forward to the hardcover book "Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi".
10	Father of Preston Bakshi, Eddie Bakshi, Mark Bakshi and Victoria Bakshi. Mark Bakshi is president of Paramount production.
11	Father-in-law of Jonathan Yudis.
12	He left Hollywood and filmmaking to spend his remaining life painting pictures, but during the back-to-back recording for a guest appearance on Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon' (2003) and the DVD commentary for his 1977 film Wizards (1977), he was bit by the animation bug again, and has recently (2005) begun work on his latest feature, currently titled "Last Days of Coney Island."
13	Was the inspiration for the voice of the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons (1989).

Title	Year	Status
The Famous Ride	1960	Short animator
The Mysterious Package	1960	Short animator
House of Hashimoto	1960	Short animator
The Hector Heathcote Show	1959	TV Series animator
The Heckle and Jeckle Show	1956	TV Series animator
Last Days of Coney Island	2015	Short animation / backgrounds
Babe, He Calls Me	1997	Short animator
Malcom and Melvin	1997	Short animator
The Cartoon Cartoon Show	1997	TV Series animator - 2 episodes
Spicy City	1997	TV Series character designer - 2 episodes
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat	1995-1996	TV Series animator - 6 episodes
Cannonball Run II	1984	director: animation sequence
Heavy Traffic	1973	character creator
Oscar's Birthday Present	1971	Short animator
Ice Cream for Help	1971	Short animator
The Shocker	1970	Short animator
The Drifter	1970	Short animator
The Ghost Monster	1970	Short animator
Mini-Squirts	1967	Short character designer
The Monster Master	1966	Short animator
Scuba Duba Do	1966	Short animator
Dr. Ha-Ha	1966	Short animator
The Third Musketeer	1965	Short animator
Dress Reversal	1965	Short animator
Don't Spill the Beans	1965	Short animator
Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy	1965	Short animator
Peace Pipe	1964	Short animator
Tea Party	1963	Short animator
The Deputy Dawg Show		TV Series animator - 95 episodes, 1960 - 1963 layout artist - 1 episode, 1962
He-Man Seaman	1962	Short animator
Rebel Trouble	1962	Short animator
Where There's Smoke	1962	Short animator
The Adventures of Lariat Sam	1962	TV Series animator
Unsung Hero	1961	Short animator

Title	Year	Status
Last Days of Coney Island	2015	Short
Trickle Dickle Down	2012	Short
Babe, He Calls Me	1997	Short
Malcom and Melvin	1997	Short
The Cartoon Cartoon Show	1997	TV Series 2 episodes
Spicy City	1997	TV Series 2 episodes
Cool and the Crazy	1994	TV Movie
Rebel Highway	1994	TV Series 1 episode
Cool World	1992
Imagining America	1989	TV Movie episode "This Ain't Bebop"
This Ain't Bebop	1989	TV Short
The Butter Battle Book	1989	TV Short supervising director
Hound Town	1989	TV Movie
Christmas in Tattertown	1988	TV Movie
Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures	1987-1988	TV Series supervising director - 19 episodes
The Rolling Stones: Harlem Shuffle	1986	Video short
Fire and Ice	1983
Hey Good Lookin'	1982
American Pop	1981
The Lord of the Rings	1978
Wizards	1977
Coonskin	1975
Heavy Traffic	1973
Fritz the Cat	1972
Martin Luther King, Jr.	1971	Short
The Big Freeze	1971	Short
The Duster	1971	Short
The Enlarger	1971	Short
The Shocker	1970	Short
The Proton Pulsator	1970	Short
The Drifter	1970	Short
Spider-Man	1968-1970	TV Series 25 episodes
The Ghost Monster	1970	Short
The Toy Man	1969	Short
The Frog	1969	Short
The Stretcher	1969	Short
Baron Von Go-Go	1967	Short supervising
Mouse Trek	1967	Short
Frozen Sparklers	1967	Short supervising
Bugged by a Bug	1967	Short supervising
Marvin Digs	1967	Short
Mini-Squirts	1967	Short
The Fuz	1967	Short
Fancy Plants	1967	Short supervising
Mr. Winlucky	1967	Short supervising
Traffic Trouble	1967	Short supervising
Dr. Rhinestone's Theory	1967	Short supervising
The Opera Caper	1967	Short uncredited
Which Is Witch?	1967	Short supervising
Give Me Liberty	1967	Short supervising
A Voodoo Spell	1967	Short supervising
It's for the Birds	1967	Short supervising
The Heat's Off	1967	Short supervising
Mighty Heroes	1966	TV Series
Rocket Robin Hood	1966	TV Series 1968, uncredited
The Monster Master	1966	Short
Scuba Duba Do	1966	Short
Dr. Ha-Ha	1966	Short
The Third Musketeer	1965	Short
Dress Reversal	1965	Short
Don't Spill the Beans	1965	Short
Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy	1965	Short
The Deputy Dawg Show	1963	TV Series 5 episodes

Title	Year	Status
Last Days of Coney Island	2015	Short producer
Trickle Dickle Down	2012	Short producer
Babe, He Calls Me	1997	Short producer
Malcom and Melvin	1997	Short producer
Spicy City	1997	TV Series executive producer
The Butter Battle Book	1989	TV Short producer
Hound Town	1989	TV Movie executive producer
Christmas in Tattertown	1988	TV Movie producer
Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures	1987-1988	TV Series producer - 19 episodes
Fire and Ice	1983	producer
Hey Good Lookin'	1982	producer
American Pop	1981	producer
Wizards	1977	producer
Spider-Man	1968-1970	TV Series executive producer - 25 episodes
Mouse Trek	1967	Short executive producer
Marvin Digs	1967	Short executive producer
Mini-Squirts	1967	Short executive producer
The Fuz	1967	Short executive producer
Rocket Robin Hood	1966	TV Series executive producer - 1968, uncredited

Title	Year	Status
Last Days of Coney Island	2015	Short written by
Trickle Dickle Down	2012	Short
Babe, He Calls Me	1997	Short written by
Malcom and Melvin	1997	Short creator / written by
The Cartoon Cartoon Show	1997	TV Series 2 episodes
Spicy City	1997	TV Series creator - 6 episodes
Cool and the Crazy	1994	TV Movie written by
Rebel Highway	1994	TV Series writer - 1 episode
This Ain't Bebop	1989	TV Short
Christmas in Tattertown	1988	TV Movie characters
Fire and Ice	1983	characters created by
Hey Good Lookin'	1982
Wizards	1977	written by
Coonskin	1975
Heavy Traffic	1973	writer
Fritz the Cat	1972	screenplay
Spider-Man	1968-1970	TV Series writer - 30 episodes
Mini-Squirts	1967	Short characters
Rocket Robin Hood	1966	TV Series 1968, uncredited
The Deputy Dawg Show	1963	TV Series story - 4 episodes

Title	Year	Status
Wizards: Ralph Bakshi - The Wizard of Animation	2004	Video short artwork
Vanilla Sky	2001	artwork provider: Ralph Bakshi's painting courtesy of
Spicy City		TV Series production staff - 6 episodes, 1997 voice director - 4 episodes, 1997
Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures	1987	TV Series story director - 7 episodes
Spider-Man		TV Series script supervisor - 30 episodes, 1968 - 1970 story supervisor - 2 episodes, 1968 - 1970

Title	Year	Status	Character
Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon'	2003	TV Series	Fire Chief
Babe, He Calls Me	1997	Short	Super Hero (voice)
Malcom and Melvin	1997	Short	Super Hero (voice)
The Cartoon Cartoon Show	1997	TV Series	Super Hero
Spicy City	1997	TV Series	Stevie / Connelly / Goldblum
American Pop	1981		Piano Player (voice, as Bill Schneider)
Wizards	1977		Fritz / Storm Trooper (voice, uncredited)
Coonskin	1975		Cop with megaphone (voice, uncredited)
Heavy Traffic	1973		Various Characters (voice, uncredited)
Fritz the Cat	1972		Narrator / Pig Cop #1 (voice, uncredited)

Title	Year	Status
[Cargo]	2017	special thanks post-production
Bird of Steel!		special thanks filming
Django Unchained	2012	special thanks
Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter	2011	special thanks
Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse	2010	Video documentary short special thanks
Outside Agitator	2008	Short special thanks
Pervert!	2005	special thanks

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2003	Maverick Tribute Award	Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
1988	Annie	Annie Awards	Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation
1980	Golden Gryphon	Giffoni Film Festival		The Lord of the Rings (1978)

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1989	Daytime Emmy	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition	Christmas in Tattertown (1988)
1979	Hugo	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation	The Lord of the Rings (1978)
1978	Hugo	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation	Wizards (1977)

Title	Year	Status	Character
Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures	1988	TV Series storyboard artist - 2 episodes
Marvin Digs	1967	Short designer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Coonskin	1975	still photographer
Heavy Traffic	1973	background photography

Title	Year	Status	Character
Adventures in Plymptoons!	2011	Documentary	Himself
Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse	2010	Video documentary short	Himself
Comic-Con '08 Live	2008	TV Movie	Himself
Wizards: Ralph Bakshi - The Wizard of Animation	2004	Video short	Himself
Frazetta: Painting with Fire	2003	Documentary	Himself
The American Comic Strip	1978	TV Movie documentary	Himself

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