From the animated version of The Beatles to Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Rugrats, Krazy Kat and The Smurfs, Ron Campbell spent 50 years making cartoons that were must-sees for the Saturday morning ...

Animator Ron Campbell doesn't do bugs. Beatles are another story. He directed many of the original episodes of “The Beatles” Saturday morning cartoon series that aired on ABC from Sept. 25, 1965 to ...

Chances are most anyone reading this was touched in some way by a man whose name few will even recognize. Ron Campbell never met The Beatles but he directed the Fab Four's 1960s cartoon series. And he ...

The deal that put the Beatles into the movies called for them to make three films for United Artists. But after the commercial and critical success of A Hard Day's Night in 1964 and the ...

Campbell would eventually direct nine episodes of the animated Beatles series, which was a huge success for ABC and ran for four years from 1965 to 1969. But Campbell never got to meet The Beatles ...

LONDON, March 20, 2012 — The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on May 28 (May 29 in North America). The film’s ...

Ron Campbell helped animate The Beatles cartoons and 'Yellow Submarine' http://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/roncampbellcompressed.mp3 WASHINGTON — Ron ...

They aren’t sprinting through a narrow street, laughing and tumbling over one another as they’re trailed by what appear to be hundreds of rabid teenyboppers. Nor are they charming Ed Sullivan and the ...

Ron Campbell said that when he was asked to direct “The Beatles” he did not realize that the animated TV series was about the namesake English rock band. “I didn’t connect the rock ‘n’ roll group with ...