Barry Mills is an American film producer, director, writer, and voice actor. Mills grew up in Pine Mountain, Georgia.

Early work

Barry Mills started his career by writing and producing promos and bumpers for TBS and

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in the early 1990s. As a hobby, he videotaped live bands such as the

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, and

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. Mills also started

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's first underground hip-hop radio show "Macadocious In Effect" on

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, which featured a host of guest DJs including the debut of

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Rudy and GoGo

In 1995 Barry and his friend, author Jack Pendarvis, created the TV show ''

The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show ''The Rudy and GoGo World Famous Cartoon Show'' was a programming block of cartoons for TNT during the mid-1990s. Hosted by "Rowdy" Rudy R. Moore (a marionette puppet of a young boy, who looked a little like Howdy Doody), and his pet goat Gogo ( ...

'' for TBS, but ended up getting picked up by TNT and premiered in July of '95. ''The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show'' was an afternoon block of classic cartoon shorts hosted by marionettes ("Rowdy" Rudy was voiced by Mills) and a mostly silent nanny goat named Gogo, taking place in front of an ever-changing green screen. TNT would use Rudy and Gogo for various cartoon and movie specials as well, until the show got cancelled in 1997.

Cartoon Network and Adult Swim

In 1998 Mills started working for

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and was a producer for the fifth season of ''

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'', a show which featured his father Palmer Mills as a guest in the second season. Later he wrote and produced the cartoon anthology shows ''

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'' and ''

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'', in which he restored most of the theatrical shorts to their original, unedited forms. Also in the early 2000s he did some voice-over work for ''

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'' and ''

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'' and it was Mills who suggested rapper

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for the theme music for ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. Mills' and ''Aqua Teen'' co-creator

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and often abbreviated as s is an ...

's band, Donnell Hubbard also had their music featured in a few episodes of ''Sealab 2021''.

Sheila Green Productions

In 2003 he started up Sheila Green Productions, which has produced music videos for the independent label

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, television promos for various networks, and has released a limited edition DVD of the

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's 2006 reunion concert. Sheila Green Productions also handled the multimedia aspects of

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's "Executioner's Last Songs" tour. Mills directed, produced, and co-wrote the 2012

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''Fun World'', a

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set in the future about the US Government being able to spy on the public through a new type of television set.Official Fun World website
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References

External links

Sheila Green Productions Official Site

Official Rudy and Gogo Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Barry Living people People from Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia Year of birth missing (living people) Television producers from Georgia (U.S. state)