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Joe Ruby
Ruby in 2010
Born
Joseph Clemens Ruby

( 1933-03-30 ) March 30, 1933
Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Died August 26, 2020 (2020-08-26) (aged 87)
Westlake Village, California , U.S.
Occupation(s) Animator, writer, television producer, music editor
Years active 1959?2020
Spouse
Carole Ruby
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( m.  1957) ​
Children 4

Joseph Clemens Ruby (March 30, 1933 ? August 26, 2020) [1] was an American animator, writer, television producer, and music editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the animated Scooby-Doo franchise, together with Ken Spears . In 1977, they co-founded the television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions . [2]

Biography [ edit ]

Ruby was born on March 30, 1933, in Los Angeles , the son of Mildred ( nee Fineberg) and Carl Ruby, a doctor. His family was Jewish, and his parents were Canadian. [3] [4] [5] He attended Fairfax High School . After graduating, he joined the United States Navy and worked as a sonar operator on a destroyer during the Korean War . [6] [7]

Ruby studied art and began his career in animation at Walt Disney Animation Studios in the inbetweening department. He began as a music editor, knowing it would take a long process to become an experienced animator, but nonetheless pursued his passion at the side as a freelance comic book artist and writer. [6] He later worked for a short time in live-action television editing before moving to Hanna-Barbera , where he met Ken Spears , also ex-Navy. [8] The two men teamed up to become writers for several animated and live-action television programs, both freelance and as on-staff writers, starting at Hanna-Barbera in 1959, [9] before leaving the studio due to a wish to become associate producers. [10] They also worked as writers for Sid and Marty Krofft Television Productions and DePatie?Freleng Enterprises . [8]

For Hanna-Barbera, Ruby and Spears created the Scooby-Doo franchise and its main characters: Fred Jones , Daphne Blake , Velma Dinkley , Shaggy Rogers , and the eponymous title character . The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! , debuted on CBS in September 1969. [11] After Fred Silverman , then head of daytime programming at CBS, concluded that, after about 15 drafts, a Great Dane was the star of the project, [12] Ruby and Spears tried multiple ideas before settling on a cowardly dog who solves mysteries. [11] For H-B, they also created Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! , Dynomutt, Dog Wonder , Jabberjaw , and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels , among other programs. At DePatie?Freleng, they created The Barkleys and The Houndcats . In the early 1970s, Silverman hired Ruby and Spears to supervise the production of CBS's Saturday morning cartoon lineup, a position they assumed at ABC when Silverman defected to that network. [8]

Wanting to create competition for Hanna-Barbera, ABC set Ruby and Spears up with their own studio in 1977, as a subsidiary of Filmways . [13] [14] Ruby-Spears Productions produced animated series for Saturday mornings, among them Fangface , The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Hour , Thundarr the Barbarian , Saturday Supercade , Mister T , Alvin and the Chipmunks , and Superman , among others. [14] Ruby-Spears was bought by Hanna-Barbera's parent company, Taft Entertainment , in 1981, and its back catalog was sold along with the Hanna-Barbera library and studio in 1991 to Turner Broadcasting . Current reissues of Ruby-Spears shows on DVD and digital platforms are therefore copyrighted by Hanna-Barbera Productions. [14]

Ruby died of natural causes at his home in Westlake Village, California , on August 26, 2020, at the age of 87. [6] [15] His widow, Carole, specified that he died of complications from a fall. [16] Dan Haskett made a dedication poster for Ruby's contribution to Scooby-Doo five days after his death. [17]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Joseph Clemens Ruby, Born 03/30/1933 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org" . www.californiabirthindex.org .
  2. ^ Itzkoff, Dave (April 12, 2010). "Jack Kirby's Heroes in Waiting" . The New York Times .
  3. ^ Del Rosario, Alexandra (August 27, 2020). "Joe Ruby Dies: 'Scooby Doo' Co-Creator Was 87" . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ "Joe Ruby obituary | Anthony Hayward" . the Guardian . September 1, 2020.
  5. ^ Bros, Warner (August 28, 2020). "How Scooby-Doo became TV's most Jewish cartoon dog" . The Forward .
  6. ^ a b c Barnes, Mike (August 27, 2020). "Joe Ruby, Co-Creator of Scooby-Doo, Dies at 87" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
  7. ^ "Scooby-Doo creator Joe Ruby dies, aged 87" . The New Zealand Herald . Auckland. August 28, 2020 . Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  8. ^ a b c Shostak, Stu (February 5, 2012). " Interview with Joe Ruby and Ken Spears ". Stu's Show. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
  9. ^ "ScoobyAddicts.com" . ScoobyAddicts .
  10. ^ "Ruby & Spears : WonderCon 2012" . YouTube . Archived from the original on December 12, 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Scooby-Doo co-creator Joe Ruby dies aged 87" . BBC News . August 28, 2020 . Retrieved November 10, 2020 .
  12. ^ Green, Penelope (November 19, 2020). "Ken Spears, Partner in an Animation Powerhouse, Dies at 82" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 31, 2021 .
  13. ^ "News From ME - Mark Evanier's blog" . www.newsfromme.com .
  14. ^ a b c Shostak, Stu (01-16-2013). " Tribute To Joseph Barbera". Stu's Show. Retrieved 05-9-2019.
  15. ^ "Scooby-Doo Co-Creator Joe Ruby Dies at 87" . Variety . August 27, 2020 . Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
  16. ^ " 'Scooby-Doo' co-creator Joe Ruby dies at 87 - The Washington Post" . The Washington Post .
  17. ^ @WB_Animation (August 31, 2020). "Forever our pal, Joe Ruby" ( Tweet ) – via Twitter .

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