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Occupation
  
Film producer

Name
  
Norm Prescott

Role
  
Co-producer


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Full Name
  
Norman Zachary Pransky

Born
  
January 31, 1927 (
1927-01-31
)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died
  
July 2, 2005, Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States

Children
  
Michael Prescott, Jeff Prescott

Awards
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series

Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special

Movies and TV shows
  
Journey Back to Oz, Pinocchio in Outer Space, The Kid Super Power Ho, Mighty Mouse in the Great, Flash Gordon: The Great

Similar People
  
Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland, Ray Ellis, Fred Ladd, Sherwood Schwartz

Norman Prescott (January 31, 1927 – July 2, 2005) was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Associates, an animation studio he created with veteran animator Lou Scheimer. Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, his real name was Norman Pransky. His father Edward was a tailor and a shirt-maker.

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Life and career

A graduate of Boston Latin School and Boston University, he began his career as a disk jockey. His first radio job, c. 1947, was at WHEB in Portsmouth NH. In 1948 he joined WHDH, and in October 1950, he became program director at station WORL. He briefly worked in New York at WNEW, before relocating to WBZ radio in late 1955; in 1956, he became one of the "Live Five" after WBZ dropped its syndicated NBC programming and went on the air with live disc jockeys. In the summer of 1959, he left radio and went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corporation, serving as vice president of music, merchandising and post-production. He, Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland formed Filmation in 1963.

Productions

  • 1965 Pinocchio in Outer Space (Belgian co-produced feature film)
  • 1966 The New Adventures of Superman
  • 1966 Fantastic Voyage
  • 1968 The Batman/Superman Hour
  • 1968 The Archie Show
  • 1969 The Hardy Boys
  • 1970 Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
  • 1970 The Groovie Goolies
  • 1970 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
  • 1972 The Brady Kids
  • 1973 Star Trek: The Animated Series
  • 1973 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
  • 1963 My Favorite Martians
  • 1974 The U.S. of Archie
  • 1974 The New Adventures of Gilligan
  • 1975 The Original Ghostbusters
  • 1976 Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
  • 1976 Ark II
  • 1978 Tarzan and the Super 7
  • Other Professional Work

    Prescott also produced and directed the 1973 animated film Treasure Island and produced and wrote 1974's Journey Back to Oz which featured Liza Minnelli as the voice of Dorothy. (Ms. Minnelli is the daughter of Judy Garland, who portrayed that same character in MGM's 1939 live action film.)

    Filmation produced the popular Star Trek animated series in 1973. Prescott also was producer for the cartoon series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, The Space Sentinels, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, Blackstar, and Sport Billy.

    Death

    Prescott died of natural causes in Los Angeles on July 2, 2005, at the age of 78. Professionally, he was survived by Scheimer and his colleagues at Filmation. He was also survived by his wife, Elaine, to whom he had been married for fifty-three years, and sons Jeffrey and Michael.

    References

    Norm Prescott Wikipedia


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