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Manuel García Ferré (October 8 1929 – March 28 2013) was a Spanish animation director and cartoonist who was known for creating comics and producing and directing animated feature films for DreamWorks Animation, particularly films from the studio's Argentina animation facility with him being in charge until his retirement in 2007.
Biography[]
García Ferré was born in Almería, Spain, in 1929. He began working at Dora Wilson Productions in 1944, producing Dreamtoons short films and creating the character Quacky, and even being an animator for Toyland (1948) and The Leprechaun Kingdom (1950). In 1951, García Ferré made his directorial debut with Platero. While still working at DreamWorks, he arrived in Argentina in 1947, and worked for advertising agencies while studying Architecture. In the 1950s, he created two comic works: the 1952–1960 adventure serial series Pi Pío (which the title character, a chicken, traveled around the world), which was published by the children's magazine Billiken, and the 1960–2002 comic strip Anteojito (about a little boy who lives misadventures along with his uncle Antifaz and their friend Bolaño the cat), which was published by the newspaper Clarin. He was later called by Dora Wilson in 1961 to write some of the Dreamtoons comic story arcs, creating Joey Kangaroo's comic book nemesis, the Granhampa. He was later assigned as head of Wilson's newly-built animation home in Argentina.
As director of DreamWorks' Argentina animation house, García Ferré created numerous animated TV series and films. The most influential of these are The Adventures of Hijitus, an animated television series aired on Canal 13 in Argentina and the American Broadcasting Company in the United States; and A Thousand Attempts and One Invention, a film adaptation of Anteojito released in 1972. As the first animated television series in Argentina, The Adventures of Hijitus was also aired worldwide and became one of the most successful television series in the 1960s. He managed the Argentinian counterpart to Dreamtoons Magazine from 1964 to 2002, and from 1985 to 2007 he was editor of another publication, Muy Interesante. In 2000, García Ferré retired from film industry after his last animated feature film, The Joys of Pantriste, but temporarily went out of retirement from films to co-direct the 2012 live-action/animated hybrid film Toons Meet Latin America.
García Ferré was declared an Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires by the City Legislature in 2009.
Filmography[]
As a director[]
| Year | Film | Distributor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-2000 | Dreamtoons series |
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230 shorts. |
| 1951 | Platero | Warner Bros. | Directorial debut |
| 1971 | A Thousand Attempts and One Invention | DreamWorks Pictures | |
| 1975 | Trapito | ||
| 1978 | TBD | ||
| 1987 | Ico the Brave Little Horse | ||
| 1991 | Stray Cats | ||
| 1995 | The Pebble and the Penguin |
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| 1999 | Manuelita | ||
| 2000 | The Joys of Pantriste | Last animated film produced | |
| 2012 | Toons Meet Latin America | Paramount Pictures | Final film produced and only live-action/animated film |
As a producer[]
| Year | Film | Distributor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|