Grantray-Lawrence Animation was an
animation studio
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active from 1954 to 1968 and founded by Grant Simmons,
Ray Patterson (hence "Grant-Ray"), and
Robert L. Lawrence.
This animation company produced commercials and low-budget animated
television
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shows until it went bankrupt in 1968
and its distributor,
Krantz Films, took over production. The best-known of those animated shows are its adaptations of
superheroes
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from
Marvel Comics
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, the earliest such adaptations for electronic media. Before then, it did sub-contracted work on ''
Top Cat
''Top Cat'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast in prime time on the ABC network. It aired in a weekly evening time slot from September 27, 1961, to April 18, 1962, for a single season of ...
'', ''
The Jetsons
''The Jetsons'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It originally aired in prime time from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, on ABC, then later aired in reruns via syndication, with new episodes produced f ...
'', ''
The Dick Tracy Show
''The Dick Tracy Show'' is an American animated television series based on Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter. The series was produced from 1961 to 1962 by UPA.
In the show, policeman Dick Tracy employed a series of cartoony subordinat ...
'', and ''
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''.
Filmography
References
External links
* The
Big Cartoon DataBase
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The BCDB project began in 1997 as a list of Disney animated featu ...
entry fo
Grantray-Lawrence Animation
American animation studios
Mass media companies established in 1954
Mass media companies disestablished in 1967
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