Gene Deitch, an Oscar-winning illustrator, animator, film director and producer has died. He was 95.
His Czech publisher, Petr Himmel, told the Associated Press that Deitch died unexpectedly Thursday night in his apartment in Prague’s Little Quarter neighborhood. No further details were given.
Earlier, he had created the Tom Terrific series, featured on the U.S. children’s show “Captain Kangaroo,” while the “Sidney’s Family Tree,” which he co-produced, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958.Born Aug. 8, 1924, in Chicago, Deitch arrived in Prague in 1959 intending to stay for 10 days, but fell in love with his future wife, Zdenka, and stayed in the Czechoslovakian capital.Prolific animation director Gene Deitch drops in from Prague to accept honors.
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