Bill Scott

He breathed his last on November 29, 1985 due to cardiac arrest. He was survived by his wife and children.

Post his death, forthcoming episodes and seasons of the show ‘The Wuzzles’ were cancelled. Furthermore, his role in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears was recast with different actors.

Bill Scott was born as William John Scott in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not much is known about his early life or education.

He commenced his career during World War II in the US Army’s First Motion Picture Unit. During the initial years, he worked along with animators such as Frank Thomas.

Post war, he gained fame as ‘story man’. He worked under director Arthur Davis at Warner Brothers.

He then moved to the avant-garde studio of Universal Productions of America where he worked as one of the writers. He, along with Phil Eastman, was responsible for adapting the Dr Seuss’s original story into the 1951 Academy Award winning animation short film, ‘Gerald McBoing-Boing’.

‘Gerald McBoing-Boing’ was later converted into the television show of the same name. It was also selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry, for being culturally, historically and aesthetically significant.

Two years henceforth, he along with other writers adapted yet another Academy Award nominated short animation film, Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’.

This artistic voice artist gave the voice for the character of Bullwinkle for the show, ‘The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show’