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Jerry Beck
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Jerry Beck is the most knowledgeable historian of animation. As a child he dreamed of being a cartoonist, and admired characters such as Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear.
In 1977 he worked with Leonard Maltin on Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. When he graduated high school he learned that animators were not in demand, so he decided to go into the animation historian field. He later became a writer, college professor, an author in which he released more than fifteen books.
He is a former studio executive for Disney and Nickelodeon, and has written articles for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. He has curated cartoons for blu-ray and DVD compilations, and has contributed to documentaries and had provided audio commentary.
He had input on the release of Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection and helped with the release of The Definitive Betty Boop: The Classic Comic Strip Collection.
Quotes
- Jerry Beck: "For a variety of reasons I cannot go into a breakdown of who did Betty." (2004)
- Jerry Beck: "Boop's voice on a picture by picture basis. I probably could do it, but I just don't have the time and there isn't an existent list of such information."[1] (2004)
- Jerry Beck: "In a nutshell, most of your respondents have correct information. Margie Hines is noted for doing the last several Betty Boop cartoons which were produced in Miami, roughly 1938-1939 releases." (2004)
- Jerry Beck: "Little Ann Little 'supposedly' did the voice in her first dog-like appearance Dizzy Dishes. I’m not sure of Mae Questel's first appearance as Betty, but it was early on." (2004)
- Jerry Beck: "Just when you thought King Features Syndicate couldn't sink any lower.[2] (2005)
- Jerry Beck: "If anyone from Olive Films is listening, I bet you to give me an email." (2013)
- Jerry Beck: "I would love to speak to anybody who works for Olive Films, I think they're kinda chicken, I'm calling them out." (2013)
- Jerry Beck: "They're chicken to talk to me. They're doing a Betty Boop DVD, you know and it's gonna have the non-PD Betty Boops." (2013)
- Jerry Beck: "The attitude of all the companies that have ever, Republic, Artisan, now Olive is that why should we put out Betty Boop? Almost all of them are public domain, and are easily available." (2013)
- Jerry Beck: "Did Olive themselves fund the restoration? I'd like to think that Paramount Pictures probably did it, and they're just the sub-distributor." (2013)
- Jerry Beck: "I'd like to see the Fleischer cartoons restored and released properly. Betty Boop, Color Classics, Talkartoons, Screen Songs, even Animated Antics and Stone Age cartoons, everything. It’s a crime these aren’t available as they could, and should be." (2013)
Trivia
- In 2003 he married vintage jazz singer Marea Boylan, the two later divorced.
- He was born on the 9th of February, 1955.
- He was a good friend of Betty Boop voice-match Cheryl Chase, who is famous for her role in Rugrats. They have great chemistry together. He married Chase on the 25th of June in 2021.
- Was left out of the production and input of Betty Boop: The Essential Collection by Olive Films. As of 2023, Olive Films became defunct, stating that they are no longer adding titles or selling any products.
- When King Features signed a deal with Hooters to make Betty a mascot, Beck complained.