Jules Bass

ABOUT JULES BASS

Writer, film and television director, and producer best known for his stop-motion animation work with Arthur Rankin, Jr. He served as executive producer for a 1980s animated television series called Thundercats.

After graduating from New York University, he began a production company called Videocraft International, which later became Rankin/Bass.

He wrote a series of children's books focusing on a vegetable-eating dragon named Herb. He adapted multiple works by legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien .

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He and screenwriter Deborah Kaplan both studied at New York University.