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  Jay Ward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ward and Anderson, through a series of legal maneuvers, lost the rights to the character, and a new color Crusader series under a different producer premiered in 1956.
Jay Ward bought an island in the area near his home and dubbed it "Moosylvania," based upon the home of his most famous TV character Bullwinkle.
Jay Ward died in Hollywood, California, of kidney cancer and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jay Ward (September 20, 1920 - October 12, 1989) was a creator and producer of animated television cartoons.
Jay Ward was born in San Francisco, California.
Jay Ward died in Hollywood, California, of kidney cancer.
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 Jay, Douglas Patrick Thomas - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jay, Douglas Patrick Thomas
Jay was financial secretary to the Treasury 1947–50 and shadow spokesperson on trade and treasury affairs 1951–62.
Jay stood out as an opponent of the UK's entry into the European Economic Community (he campaigned for a ‘no’ vote in the 1975 referendum).
Jay was educated at Winchester and Oxford, emerging at the close of the 1930s as one of a generation of bright Labour economists, such as Hugh Gaitskell and Evan Durbin.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jay,+Douglas+Patrick+Thomas   (238 words)

  
 Jay Ward -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Troplong "Jay" Ward (September 20, 1920–October 12, 1989) was a creator and producer of (Click link for more info and facts about animated) animated (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television cartoons.
Jay Ward Productions also designed the trademark characters for (Click link for more info and facts about Cap'n Crunch) Cap'n Crunch, (Click link for more info and facts about Quisp) Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and made commercials for those products.
Ward fought many heated battles over content with the ((electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits) network and sponsor, but had little fear of (Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances) censorship or lawsuits.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jay_ward.htm   (856 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jay Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ward's company, Jay Ward Productions, produced television animated series such as Crusader Rabbit (1950s), Rocky and Bullwinkle (also featuring Dudley Do-Right and Peabody and Sherman, late 1950s and early 1960s), Hoppity Hooper (mid 1960s), and George of the Jungle (also featuring Tom Slick and Super Chicken, in the late 1960s).
Hoppity Hooper was an animated television series produced by Jay Ward in 1964, originally broadcast on ABC and later syndicated under the name Uncle Waldo.
Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is one of the main characters in the animated television series The Simpsons.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jay-Ward   (1679 words)

  
 Chapter 4
Ward chose not to drink though, because he was driving and he knew Mai would flip out if she had to go home with someone drunk.
Ward kept Mai safe most of the time and he didn’t let her go even after the band stopped and the pit was gone.
Ward sighed and looked around for a blanket and he found one a few feet away on the floor and he covered her with it.
www.angelfire.com /anime3/pallapalla/complicated4.html   (1782 words)

  
 Jay Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Daws said that Jay Ward was always extremely loyal in that he was content to employ just a very small coterie of voice actors and he rarely turned to anyone else.
So though Jay Ward was very much on top of finances and real estate, he was not too far removed, from the day to day operations, that he didn't still have a good ear for voices (he just never tried to do these voices himself).
June said that Jay Ward gave her suggestions regarding Rocky and Natasha, when they first met (Rocky: clean-cut, all-American boy; Natasha: not too Russian, as the U.S. was already having enough problems with the Cold War).
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 Hogan's Interview | Alex Anderson
Producer Jay Ward and writer Bill Scott are most frequently credited with the program; however, in recently years, another name has surfaced in the Rocky and Bullwinkle story.
Ward and his talented team no doubt hit a memorably creative home run with Rocky and Bullwinkle, but it was Alex Anderson who designed the game and the format and gave them the ingredients essential for their success.
Jay moved to Southern California and, blessed with a great appreciation of talent, assembled an extraordinary team of writers and actors, and he produced the Rocky and Bullwinkle series.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jay Ward was neither an animator nor a writer but he worked with some of the best in the business.
Produced by Jay Ward in 1963 for TV syndication via Desilu, “Fractured Flickers” was one of the very few live action projects from a producer best known for the animated antics of characters like Rocky and Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right and George of the Jungle.
Ward was a graduate of the University of California.
www.jimhillmedia.com /mb/articles/printer_friendly.php?ID=975   (1121 words)

  
 Lumber matriarch retired but still in the thick of things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JAY — The forest, lush and green, shades the back of Agnes Ward’s summer home; out her front windows, she watches lumber unloaded, can almost smell the raw, sharp odor of new-sawn boards.
Her desk in the Ward Lumber store down the road remains her own; to her, business and family are intertwined as intimately as the branches of two saplings, planted too closely together.
The young Wards grew up influenced not only by a working mom — when such a creature was quite a rarity — but by Sid Sr.’s casual acceptance of hardship caused by scoliosis of the spine.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2005/08_2005/080820055.htm   (870 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The moose that roared: (the story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a flying squirrel, and a talking moose ) by ...
Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman who lobbied Washington for statehood for Moosylvania, and invited the press to a picnic on the floor of the Plaza Hotel's august Grand Ballroom.
From their tiny, oddball animation studio, Jay Ward Productions, they created some of the most memorable animation of all time, and gave birth to a family of characters whose undying popularity has cast them forever into the pop culture firmament.
With their distinctively unorthodox, artist-friendly philosophy, Ward and Scott attracted some of the most talented writers and voice actors in the industry, and for a time, Jay Ward Productions was a kind of Camelot of cartoons.
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 DVD Review of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: Season 1 - DVDtoons!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jay began his career as a real estate agent, but his career was cut short when, on the first day on the job, a freak accident where a semi truck plowed into his agency put Jay in the hospital for quite a while.
This series was Jay Ward’s favorite of his creations until it was dethroned by “Dudley Do-Right” The cast was often a highlight of this series, June Foray, Bill Scott, and Daws Butler’s antics played wonderfully of Edward Everett Horton’s wry narration.
During the coarse of it’s run no one ever sued the Jay Ward studio, which may have been that whenever a lawsuit was threatened Jay would send the angry party a cheerful letter begging them to sue for he needed the publicity.
www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/226   (3194 words)

  
 Character Info
Rocky and Bullwinkle producer Jay Ward was born in 1920 with the name J Troplong Ward.
Jay attended the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Business School, though he didn't like anybody to mention it.
After several years working in real estate, Ward, and his childhood friend Alex Anderson, decided against conventional wisdom, that cartoons could be produced for the fledgling medium of television.
www.bullwinklestudios.com /characters/character_info.html   (245 words)

  
 Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
Ward will assume the leadership of Donaldson's European and Middle East businesses from Geert Henk Touw, who was appointed Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, as previously announced.
Ward graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1986 with a degree in marine engineering and graduated from the Naval Nuclear Power postgraduate engineering program in 1987.
Ward served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1986 to 1991.
www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=24959293   (591 words)

  
 Comics/Cartoon Topics: Jay Ward
Despite the lasting influence that Jay Ward and his partners in crime had on animation shorts, and the instant recognition most of us in this culture have to the characters of the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows, many of Ward's other creations never managed to get past the pilot stage.
Ward and Anderson were eventually forced to sell their company due to legal problems, but kept their ownership of characters to be used in future pilots.
The project was a wash when Ward had a "falling out" with the studio head, but contacted Scott later to begin a new project based on two of the characters from an earlier project.
users.tellurian.com /dano/toon-jayward.html   (1552 words)

  
 Jay Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jay Ward was neither an animator nor a writer, though he did collaborate with Bill Scott in the writing of a few early episodes before the other writers were hired.
Jay Ward cartoons are full of allusions to his name, especially in characters' middle initials.
The inclusion of all these jokes provides further evidence that Ward's strongest personality trait was his sense of humor.
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 Jay Ward Biography / Biography of Jay Ward Biography Biography
At the peak of his fame, Jay Ward (1920-1989) was always being pestered with requests for his biography.
Yet Ward's own life was complex and interesting enough for the man who was responsible for the first animated cartoons made specifically for television.
He was born J (no period, he was to choose his own name later) Troplong (French, his mother's birth name) Ward in San Francisco on September 20, 1920.
www.bookrags.com /biography-jay-ward/index.html   (237 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Jay Ward Productions
Ward retained ownership of everything the studio had in development, including an animated ensemble show based in the mythical town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota.
Ward strove to reach three audiences, on three different levels — pre-verbal youngsters, who could enjoy the sounds and colors; kids who could appreciate a storyline with fast-moving events piled one on top of another; and adults, for whom the clever wordplay and wry commentary were intended.
UPA's loss was Ward's gain, as Scott didn't just punch up scripts with his zany sense of humor — he also provided some of the studio's best voices (including those of Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle and many of the male characters in Peabody's Improbable History and Fractured Fairy Tales).
www.toonopedia.com /jayward.htm   (890 words)

  
 ONRC Testifies Before Senate on Mount Hood Wilderness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Portland-Oregon Natural Resources Council Conservation Director Jay Ward testified before the United States Senate today in favor of greater protection for the remaining undeveloped wild lands on Mount Hood and in the Columbia Gorge.
Ward spoke before the Senate Resources Committee in favor of Senate Bill 2723, the Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2004.
My name is Jay Ward and I serve as the Conservation Director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, whose 6000 plus members are dedicated to keeping Oregon a special place to live, work and raise a family.
www.oregonwild.org /press/9.14.04ONRC.html   (1797 words)

  
 Keith Scott:  The Moose That Roared
From an early age, he was a fan of Ward’s creations and has known many of the principals involved, including both voice talents, animators, Bill Scott (no relation) and Jay Ward.
Rather than narrating the misadventures of “moose and squirrel,” Scott is narrating the misadventures of Jay Ward, Bill Scott and their attempts to make intelligent, topical cartoons in a world in which they had to rely on sponsorship and faced network censorship.
Ward Productions was as much the brainchild of Bill Scott as Jay Ward, and his role, based on the book, was greater than Ward’s.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/scott.html   (559 words)

  
 New York 'Small-Business Champion' Award Winner Named   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NFIB/New York State Director Mark Alesse praised Ward for his long service in the small-business community and for his activism at the state capitol on behalf of New York Main Street.
Ward has been an active member of NFIB for 10 years and was the past chairman of the Leadership Council.
Ward is also the co-founder and co-chair of the first NFIB/New York Area Action Council.
www.nfib.com /object/4144022.html   (268 words)

  
 JAY WARD PRODUCTIONS Rocky and Bullwinkle
#JW4 - Jay Ward 'Natasha, Boris, Bullwinkle and Rocky', 1988.
#JW6 - Jay Ward 'Rocky, Bullwinkle and Boris', 1988.
#JW10 - Jay Ward - 'Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris and Natasha'.
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 Crusader Rabbit: Paul Terry, Alex Anderson, Jay Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ward, who would go on to produce Rocky and Bullwinkle (among other cartoons) as well as a series of popular commercials, was at this time a real estate salesman.
Ward hovered over all aspects of the show; by all accounts as an encouraging enabler.
Ward enthusiastically agreed but with his time tied up in legal battles, they had to look elsewhere for someone to handle the production of the new series.
www.digitalmediafx.com /Features/crusaderrabbit.html   (1366 words)

  
 Jay Ward Cartoons
Ward's role in the company quickly grew beyond simply business: his wacky sense of humor (particularly his penchant for shameless puns) soon injected itself into the scripts, and it was Ward who selected the title character's name.
Ward was a big fan of silent films, which showed up nowhere better than in "Dudley Do-Right": the title cards, iris head shots, and melodramatic situations were all spoofs of the movie serials of Ward's youth.
Ward also ran a series called "Fractured Flickers" on TV during the mid-'60s: it consisted of clips from classic silent comedies with hilarious soundtracks added in.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jay Ward was born J. Troplong Ward on September 20, 1920.
During this time Jay teamed with the gifted Bill Scott who became the head writer, coproducer, and creative force behind the cartoons; as well, he provided the voices for most of the star characters, giving witty vocal life to Bullwinkle, Mr.
By the 1970s Jay was losing interest in TV shows, and expect for the Quaker Oats commercials little else was being done.
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