Børge Ring (17 February 1921 – 27 December 2018) was a Danish

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writer, director and animator. His 1978 short film ''Oh My Darling'' won the Best Short Film award at the 1978

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, and his 1984 short film ''

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'' won the Best Animated Short Film award at that year's

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Personal life and death

Børge Ring was the son of composer

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. He was born in

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, Denmark, and his family later moved to

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. He had a wife Joanika, who worked as a sculptor, and they had two children. Ring died on 27 December 2018 at the age of 97.

Career

Early in his career Ring was active as a jazz contrabassoonist and guitarist, performing in several bands. Ring worked on an adaption of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Tinderbox, which was the first Danish animated feature. In 1947, Ring and his friend Arne Rønde Christensen opened up a cartoon studio in

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. The studio started by doing commercials. In 1952, Ring moved to the Netherlands to work for Toonder Studios. He worked for them until 1973, when he moved to London to work for

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. His 1978 short film ''Oh My Darling'' won the Best Short Film award at the 1978

, and was

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for the Best Animated Short Film award at the 1979 Academy Awards. The short was redubbed and aired on television in the United States as part of the short-lived series '' Jokebook''. He worked on the introduction to the 1983 film ''

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''. Ring directed the 1984 short film ''

'', which won the Best Animated Short Film award at the 1985 Academy Awards. In 1986, Ring composed a flute song for the Danish cartoon ''Valhalla''. His 1999 short film ''Run of the Mill'', which focused on the effects of taking drugs, won a

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Children's Award in 2000. Ring also worked on ''

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'' is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz. A Halloween special, it was the third ''Peanuts'' special (and second holiday-themed ...

'' (1966), '' Heavy Metal'' (1981), and '' We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'' (1993).

Later years

In 2003, Ring became a Knight of the

Order of the Netherlands Lion The Order of the Netherlands Lion, also known as the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands ( nl, De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, french: L'Ordre du Lion Néerlandais) is a Dutch order of chivalry founded by King William I of the Netherlands on ...

. In 2012, the main award of the Danish Animation Society was renamed ''The Børge Ring Award''. In the same year, he won the

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. In 2014, his autobiography was published.

References

External links

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Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ring, Borge 1921 births 2018 deaths Danish animators Danish film directors Danish animated film directors Danish comics artists Danish jazz guitarists Contrabassoonists Comic strip cartoonists Recipients of the Order of the Netherlands Lion People from Ribe Danish expatriates in the Netherlands Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners