Name Rick Gitelson Role Television producer | Shows Rugrats | |
Movies Family Plan, Handy Manny: Tooling Around, Road to Ruin Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Similar People Marilyn Sadler, Gabor Csupo, Jim Duffy, Arlene Klasky, Paul Germain | ||
Rick Gitelson (born in Washington, D.C.) is an American television and film producer and screenwriter.
Gitelson's writing and producing credits include for TV: Goldie & Bear, Imagination Movers, Handy Manny, Rugrats, LazyTown, Dragon Tales, Hey Arnold! and Recess; and for film: Whispers in the Dark, A Case for Murder, Becoming Dick and The Family Plan. He co-created Goldie & Bear with Jorge Aguirre.
He won a 2002-2003 Emmy Award and a 1999 Humanitas Award for writing and producing the Nickelodeon television series Rugrats and the 2010 Writers Guild of America Award for Imagination Movers. He has also received a Vision Award from the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, a Genesis Award from the Humane Society, an Imagen Award, and an Environmental Media Award, for his work on Handy Manny.