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Ralph Bakshi
Director 87 years old

Ralph Bakshi

Haifa, Mandatory Palestine [now Israel]

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is a Palestinian-born American animator and filmmaker. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

10 titles
Cool and the Crazy

Cool and the Crazy

Ralph Bakshi 1994 1h 25m

Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.

Cool World

Cool World

Ralph Bakshi 1992 1h 42m 5.7

A comic character tries to seduce her creator to escape into his world.

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

Ralph Bakshi 1983 1h 22m 7.6

The villainous Nekron and his mother, Queen Juliana, plot against the human race from their frigid fortress. Creating mass destruction with huge glaciers, mother and son incur the wrath of Larn, a warrior whose entire village was destroyed by ice.

American Pop

American Pop

Ralph Bakshi 1981 1h 36m 7.0

American Pop is an American animated film that film tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music.

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

Ralph Bakshi 1978 2h 12m 8.8

is an animated fantasy film from 1978 based on the first half of J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novel. The film was mainly filmed using rotoscoping, meaning it was filmed in live action sequences with real actors and then each frame was individually animated.

Wizards

Wizards

Ralph Bakshi 1977 1h 21m 6.6

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.

Coonskin

Coonskin

Ralph Bakshi 1975 1h 24m 5.0

A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

Ralph Bakshi 1973 1h 17m 4.0

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him.

Fritz the Cat

Fritz the Cat

Ralph Bakshi 1972 1h 18m 7.6

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's.

Traffic Trouble

Traffic Trouble

Ralph Bakshi 1967 7m 4.0

James the spy hound is trying to prevent a traffic jam of various remote-controlled cars.

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