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Len Janson is an American writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s. He began work as an in-betweener at the Walt Disney cartoon studio.
Len Janson was born on 18 November 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Real Ghostbusters (1986), Stop Look and Listen (1967) and Land of the Lost (1991).
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Len Janson is an American animator, writer and director who created the Sonic the Hedgehog television series and wrote for the Sonic Underground television series.
Janson was the series creator of Sonic the Hedgehog television series, having written the series' Bible (not to be confused with the general Sonic Bible), which documented the setting, general backstory and characters from the series. Janson thus created the concept of the Freedom Fighters, Knothole Village, and Sonic the Hedgehog characters like Snively, Rotor, Antoine Depardieu, and Sally, all of whom later transferred over to the Archie Comics series. The Bible also included the character of Nate Morgan, who never appeared in the Sonic the Hedgehog TV show but was later incorporated into the Archie Comics continuity.
Janson was Sonic the Hedgehog's story editor for both seasons and wrote several episodes himself. In particular, he insisted that the heroes must have both wins and losses, and he was a driving force behind the development of the Sonic/Sally relationship. In the second season, he was one of only three writers, along with Ben Hurst and Pat Allee. He was a particular idol to Ben Hurst (who referred to him as the "King"), and when Hurst was made the story editor of the series Sonic Underground, Hurst managed to give Janson six episodes to write.
Writing
•Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series): •"Sonic Boom" •"Sonic Racer" •"Heads or Tails" •"Fed Up With Antoine" •"The Odd Couple" •Sonic Underground: •"A Hedgehog's Home is Her Castle" •"Bug!" •"When in Rome..." •"Three Hedgehogs and a Baby" •"Six is a Crowd" •"The Big Melt"
•Len Janson at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
•Len Janson at the Internet Movie Database
1."The Great Sonic Continuity Debate" (by PorpoiseMuffins, 11/10) at 2.SatAM Bible at 3."Ben Hurst on SatAM" (written by Ben Hurst, compiled by PorpoiseMuffins, 11/10) at
May 3, 2007 · Chuck Menville passed away from lymphoma June 15, 1992 at age 51. Len Janson is today retired from animation and now writing novels. He and Chuck had long stints as a writing team at Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and other studios. Len also wrote live-action.
LEN JANSON. (Unknown) Notable Roles: Animator, writer, story editor, producer, director. Janson began working at Walt Disney Productions as an in-betweener. In 1965, he became a story man and received his first screen credit in Warner Bros. ’ Boulder Wham! Roadrunner short.
Len Janson is known as an Writer, Director, Actor, Creator, Story, Teleplay, Editor, Screenplay, Original Story, and Producer. Some of their work includes Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Underground, The Smurfs Christmas Special, My Smurfy Valentine, The Secrets of Isis, The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma, Dumb and Dumber, and Stop Look and Listen.
With Len Janson, Chuck Menville, Don Alleyn, Howard Deitrich. A man wearing suit, tie, black-framed glasses, and a hat leaves his house in LA's San Fernando Valley and heads off in his car. Except his car is him, seated on the ground - he moves via stop motion.
