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| Joe Ruby | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | Joseph Clemens Ruby March 30, 1933 Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||||
| Died | August 26, 2020 (Age 87) Westlake Village, California | ||||||||||||||
| Positions | Producer | ||||||||||||||
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Joseph Clemens Ruby (born March 30, 1933; died August 26, 2020) was a producer and animator who would have worked on unproduced Daredevil and Thor series. He, along with Ken Spears, formed the Ruby-Spears Productions company that would have made the initial Daredevil series. He is famous for creating the Scooby-Doo franchise.
Biography[]
After graduating high school, Ruby joined the United States Navy and worked on a destroyer as a sonar operator during the Korean War.
He began working as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. For a short time he worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions where he met his future partner Ken Spears. Together they would work on Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Jabberjaw. The two also worked at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
Eventually ABC wanted to create competition with Hanna-Barbera so they set Ruby and Spears up with their own animation studio. The two would create Fangface, The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Hour, Thundarr the Barbarian, Saturday Supercade, Mister T, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Superman. The company was eventually bought by Hanna-Barbera.
Ruby passed away on August 26th, 2020 of natural causes at the age of eighty-seven. He was survived by his wife Carole; their children Cliff, Deanna, Craig, and Debby; and ten grandchildren.[1]
References[]
- ↑ Scooby-Doo Co-Creator Joe Ruby Dies at 87 at Variety