Jay Ward (b. 1920)

Born: 1920 September 20 in San Franscisco, California, United States

Died: 1989 October 12 in Los Angeles, California, United States

Biography: Jay Ward was an American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken. His company, Jay Ward Productions, designed the trademark characters for the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and it made TV commercials for those products, and the company also made a Drive-in Theater intermission in 1963, which later remastered in the 2010s. Ward produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers that featured comedy redubbing of silent films.

Name:

    Jay Ward Type: Common Alternative Name
    Given name: Jay Family name: Ward

Other Names:

  1. Joseph Ward Cohen Jr. Type: Name at Birth
    Given name: Joseph Ward Jr. Family name: Cohen

Awards:

  1. 1978: Winsor McCay Award - [no name]

Art Influences:

Influences by Jay Ward (b. 1920) were stated by:
  1. Scott Shaw (b. 1951)
  2. John Warner (b. 1952)

Relations:

  1. Owner - Jay Ward Productions (b. 1948)
    Notes: Founder.

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