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Iwao Takamoto (April 29, 1925 – January 8, 2007) was a Japanese-American animator, television producer, and film director. He began his career as a production and character designer for Walt Disney Animation Studios films such as Cinderella (1950), Lady and the Tramp (1955), and Sleeping Beauty (1959).
Biography. Iwao Takamoto first learned animation skills during his teenage years, as a prisoner in the Manzanar internment camp, which held over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. At the end of the war, he joined the Disney animation studio where he became the key assistant to one of Disney’s legendary Nine Old Men, Milt Kahl.
Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007) Iwao Takamoto. Iwao Takamoto had recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Iwao, his parents and siblings were interned as enemy aliens in the Manzanar internment camp where he learned the rudiments of drawing and animation from two fellow internees who ...
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Jan 10, 2007 · Iwao Takamoto, the artist who created the mystery-solving Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, among many other indelible cartoon characters, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause was a heart ...
Jan 9, 2007 · Created Canine Icon Scooby-Doo. Iwao Takamoto. Los Angeles, CA - Animator Iwao Takamoto, who worked on some of the most beloved animated movies and TV shows of all time, died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81. Although Takamoto’s credits include such animated classics as Cinderella, Peter Pan ...
Jan 9, 2007 · Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the beloved Scooby-Doo and directed the cartoon classic Charlotte's Web, has died. He was 81. Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...
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Jan 10, 2007 · Iwao Takamoto, an animator whose most celebrated creation was the endearingly klutzy canine Scooby-Doo but who also left his mark on dozens of other Hanna-Barbera classics, including "The Jetsons ...
