Animator
15 November 1916 to 1 September 2008
An animator who worked on early Disney features and at Warner Bros. on classic shorts featuring Bugs Bunny among others, Melendez is most closely associated with bringing Charles M. Schultz’s Peanuts characters to the screen. Beginning with A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), he produced several feature length versions and series.
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- Read Bill Melendez's Times Obituary
- Read Bill Melendez's Guardian Obituary
