On Dec. 6, 1964 Americans had their first meeting with a creature who, in his own words—though he was anything but self-aggrandizing—was a dear of a reindeer. Some of them may have already known of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and ...

The special will air on NBC this year for the first time since the 1970s CBS “But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?” Those are the lyrics to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the classic ...

Arthur Rankin, Jr., a prolific animator, producer and director behind holiday TV classics, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, has died at his home in Bermuda at the age of 89, a close friend ...

The Christmas classics are back on the TV. Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass’ animated holiday specials have all the Christmas favorites like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and ...

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Arthur Rankin, Jr., a prolific animator, producer and director behind holiday TV classics, including "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," has died at his home in Bermuda at the age of ...

Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass have had the holiday cartoon market cornered since the 1960s. The creatives behind Rankin/Bass Productions cranked out an astonishing number of Christmas classics in ...

Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., who died in 2014, produced Christmas stop motion classics like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jack Frost and The Little Drummer Boy Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior ...

What kind of Christmas would it be without the resourceful Rudolph or Hermey the aspiring dentist, without friendly Frosty or the dastardly Heat and Snow Misers? Jules Bass brought them all to vivid, ...

Jules Bass, the television and film producer, composer and lyricist who co-created some of the most well-known holiday specials of the ’60s and ’70s, died on Tuesday in Rye, New York of age-related ...

Jules Bass, the co-producer and co-director of such animated classics as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “The Last Unicorn,” died Tuesday of age-related illness at an ...