Jules Bass brought them all to vivid, animated life on TV. And with his producing and directing partner Arthur Rankin Jr., he didn’t just contribute indelible classics to the canon of Christmas ...

On Dec. 6th, 1964, Rankin/Bass Productions’ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the longest-running, highest-rated television special of all time, premiered in the late afternoon during the General ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Rankin/Bass Productions’ cel-animated, stop-motion features were farmed out to Japanese animators and were painstaking to make, with thousands of still photos of ...

Jules Bass, prolific producer, director, songwriter, and co-founder of the legendary Rankin/Bass production company, has died at 87. According to publicist Jennifer Fisherman Ruff, he passed away ...

Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., who died in 2014, produced Christmas stop motion classics like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jack Frost and The Little Drummer Boy Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff ...