Australian film and TV animation pioneer Yoram Gross died on Monday night, aged 88, of natural causes.
The co-founder of Yoram Gross Film Studios with his wife Sandra, his legacy lives on in Flying Bark Productions, the rebranded company formerly known as Yoram Gross-Em.TV Pty Ltd.
It is fitting that a new cinema version of Blinky Bill, his most famous and enduring character, Flying Bark.s Blinky Bill: The Movie, opened in Australian cinemas last week.
Born in Kraków Poland in 1926, he studied music and musicology at Krakow University. He first entered the film industry in 1947 when, aged 20, he was one of the first film students of Jerzy Toeplitz, who founded the Polish Film Institute.
He endured World War II under the Nazi regime. His family was on Oskar Schindler.s infamous list but chose to make their own risky escape, moving hiding places 72 times.
He was a...
The co-founder of Yoram Gross Film Studios with his wife Sandra, his legacy lives on in Flying Bark Productions, the rebranded company formerly known as Yoram Gross-Em.TV Pty Ltd.
It is fitting that a new cinema version of Blinky Bill, his most famous and enduring character, Flying Bark.s Blinky Bill: The Movie, opened in Australian cinemas last week.
Born in Kraków Poland in 1926, he studied music and musicology at Krakow University. He first entered the film industry in 1947 when, aged 20, he was one of the first film students of Jerzy Toeplitz, who founded the Polish Film Institute.
He endured World War II under the Nazi regime. His family was on Oskar Schindler.s infamous list but chose to make their own risky escape, moving hiding places 72 times.
He was a...
- 9/22/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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