Who wrote the original story in 1939 about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer which went on to be an animated musical movie in 1998 starring an American actor best known for playing Dan Conner on the ABC TV series 'Roseanne'?
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is a 1998 American animated musical film about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, who first appeared in a 1939 story by Robert L. May. The film was the first theatrical feature from GoodTimes Entertainment, long known as a home video company. It stars John Goodman, Eric Idle, Whoopi Goldberg, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Simmons and Bob Newhart. The film disappointed at the box-office, recouping only $113,000 of its $10 million budget.
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John Goodman John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. Early in his career, he was best known for playing Dan Conner on the ABC TV series "Roseanne" (1988–1997), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993. He is also a regular collaborator with the Coen brothers on such films as "Raising Arizona" (1987), "Barton Fink" (1991), "The Big Lebowski" (1998), "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000), and "Inside Llewyn Davis" (2013). Goodman's voice roles in animated films include Pacha in Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove" (2000), and Sulley in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." (2001), and "Monsters University" (2013).
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Lucas Grabeel Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( ; born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, director, producer, singer and songwriter. He is best known for roles such as Ryan Evans in the "High School Musical" film series, as Ezra Chase in The Adventures of Food Boy (2008) and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of the Halloweentown series: "Halloweentown High" (2004) and "Return to Halloweentown" (2006). He also appeared as a young Lex Luthor and Conner Kent in the television series "Smallville". He played Toby Kennish in the ABC Family/Freeform drama "Switched at Birth". He provides the voice of Deputy Peck in the Disney Junior TV series "Sheriff Callie's Wild West".
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High School Musical on Stage! High School Musical on Stage! is a musical based on the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical", with music and lyrics by Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Ray and Greg Cham, Drew Seeley, Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts, Bryan Louiselle, David N. Lawrence, Faye Greenberg and Jamie Houston, and a book by David Simpatico. It has quickly become a very popular choice for high school musical theatre productions.
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Maureen McCormick Maureen Denise McCormick (born August 5, 1956) is an American actress, singer and author. She is best known for her portrayal of Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom "The Brady Bunch", which ran from 1969 to 1974. She reprised the role in several of the numerous "Brady Bunch" spin-offs and films, including "The Brady Kids", "The Brady Bunch Hour", "The Brady Brides" as well as "A Very Brady Christmas" (1988). McCormick also appeared in "The Idolmaker" (1980) as well as a wide range of other supporting film roles. In the 1980s and 1990s, she ventured into stage acting, appearing in a variety of different roles and productions such as Wendy Darling in "Peter Pan" and Betty Rizzo in "Grease". McCormick also had a brief career as a recording artist, releasing four studio albums with the "Brady Bunch" cast as well as touring with them. Her only release as a solo artist to date is a country music album, "When You Get a Little Lonely" (1995).
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Daniel Wallace (author) Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel "", the basis for the Tim Burton film "Big Fish" and the Broadway musical of the same name. His other books include "Ray in Reverse" and "The Watermelon King". His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror."
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The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American live-action and animated television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1968 through February 23, 1969. Produced by Hanna-Barbera and based on the classic Mark Twain characters, the program starred its three live-action heroes, Huck Finn (Michael Shea), Becky Thatcher (LuAnn Haslam), and Tom Sawyer (Kevin Schultz), navigating weekly adventures within an animated world as they attempted to outrun a vengeful "Injun Joe" (voiced by Ted Cassidy). After the show's original run, the series continued to air in reruns as part of "The Banana Splits and Friends Show" syndication package.
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Conner Rayburn Conner Rayburn (born April 7, 1999) is an American actor known for playing the role of Kyle Orenthal on the sitcom "According to Jim".
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Timothy Mason (playwright) Timothy Peter Mason (born February 14, 1950) is an American playwright. He has written a number of plays including the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’’
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George Arthur Bloom George Arthur Bloom (born 1945) is an American born Canadian screenwriter and producer known for his work on Nelvana television titles such as "The Magic School Bus" and "Cyberchase". He also wrote the pilots for "The Transformers" and "My Little Pony", as well as a number of installments of the "My Little Pony" series such as "My Little Pony 'n Friends" and "My Little Pony Tales". In 1980, he was a scriptwriter for Disney's "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark" and has written several scripts, produced and story edited for various television shows and films for children and adults alike such as "Welcome Back, Kotter", "Working Stiffs", "Sanford Arms", the American version of the British sitcom "Love Thy Neighbor", "Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars", "Street Sharks", most of the "Tugs" segments for "Salty's Lighthouse", "Stockard Channing in Just Friends", "The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour", "", "A Knife for the Ladies", several sketches of "Cher", "CBS Library", "Starsky and Hutch", "Chico and the Man", "Alice", "Jem and the Holograms", "Conan the Adventurer", "Romance Theatre", "Throb", "All in the Family", "The New Dick Van Dyke Show", three of the "Shades of Love" films, "Solid Gold", "The Dean Martin Show", "Carter Country", "The Incredible Hulk", "Nature Cat", "The Julie Andrews Hour", "The Charmkins", "Too Close for Comfort", "Party Games for Adults Only", "Love, Sidney", "The Powder Room", "Nine to Five", "Potato Head Kids" and "The Glo Friends". Bloom wrote two of GoodTimes Home Video's 1994 animated films "" and "Cinderella" and as well as "Alice in Wonderland" in 1995.
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Ed Dixon Ed Dixon (born September 2, 1948 in Oklahoma) is an American character actor, playwright and composer.
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Dan Kopelman Dan Kopelman is an American television producer, television writer and actor. He has written and produced for "Undressed", "Big Wolf on Campus", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Big Day", "Listen Up!", "Rules of Engagement" and "Notes from the Underbelly". Kopelman is perhaps best known for his work on the Nickelodeon sitcom, "True Jackson, VP", writing and producing for the series and appearing as parody of himself being credited simply as "Kopelman".
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Wallace Shawn Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in the Louis Malle-directed comedy-drama "My Dinner with Andre" (1981), Vizzini in "The Princess Bride" (1987), Ezra in "The Haunted Mansion", providing the voice of Rex in the "Toy Story" franchise, providing the voice of Gilbert Huph in "The Incredibles" (2004), and providing the voice of Calico in "" (2010). He also starred in a variety of television series, including "Gossip Girl" and recurring appearances as Grand Nagus Zek in "" (1993–99).
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (soundtrack) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a soundtrack album to the 1964 Rankin/Bass television special of the same name. The original cast recordings from the TV special (side "A" of the original LP release) are supplemented with instrumental versions recorded by the Decca Concert Orchestra (on side "B"). All songs used in the television special were written by Johnny Marks.
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Scrooge (1970 film) Scrooge is a 1970 British musical film adaptation in Panavision of Charles Dickens' 1843 story "A Christmas Carol". It was filmed in London between January and May 1970 and directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role. The film's musical score was composed by Leslie Bricusse, and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser. With eleven musical arrangements interspersed throughout (all retaining a traditional British air), the award-winning motion picture is a faithful musical retelling of the original. The film received limited praise, but Albert Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1971.
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Jerry Dexter Jerry Dexter (April 18, 1935 – June 21, 2013) was an American actor and voice actor best known for playing teenage boys and young men in animated television series for Hanna-Barbera Productions from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
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Chris Gifford (actor) Chris Gifford (born May 3, 1959) is a writer and executive producer at Nickelodeon, where he co-created the Peabody Award-winning children's series "Dora the Explorer" where he was the voice of the Big Red Chicken, the Grumpy Old Troll, the Pirate Captain Pig, etc. and its successful spin-off "Go, Diego, Go!". He was also a cast member (Danny) on the 1980s syndicated children's series, "The Great Space Coaster".
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Ken Spears Charles Kenneth "Ken" Spears (born March 12, 1938) is an American television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Joe Ruby of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions.
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Roseanne Conner Roseanne Conner (née Harris) is the title character and the main protagonist of "Roseanne", she is played by Roseanne Barr. Roseanne, in a takeoff of her stand-up comedic and presumed real-life persona, is a bossy, loud, caustic, overweight, and dominant woman. She constantly tries to control the lives of her sister, husband, children, co-workers, and friends. Despite her dominating nature, Roseanne is a loving mother who works hard and makes as much time for her kids as possible.
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Ludwig Von Drake Professor Ludwig Von Drake is one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters. He was first introduced on September 24, 1961, as the presenter (and singer of "The Spectrum Song") in the cartoon "An Adventure in Color", part of the first episode of "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" on NBC. Said to be an uncle of Donald Duck. He is described as a scientist, lecturer, psychologist, and world traveler. The character displayed his "expert" knowledge on a variety of subjects in eighteen episodes of the classic anthology series, as well as on a number of Disneyland Records.
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Robert Hanley Robert Hanley (born June 17, 1947), also known as Broadway Bob. and Bob Hanley, is an American actor, entertainer, comedian, singer, and writer. Hanley has been cast in over 100 starring and co-starring roles in television variety, comedy and drama series including "Crazy Like a Fox" with Jack Warden, and "Pros & Cons" with James Earl Jones and Richard Crenna. Hanley hosted television game shows for the ABC and CBS networks, and, as stand-up comedian Broadway Bob, appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show". He headed the Robert Hanley Actors Studio for eighteen years. Currently, as a singer/entertainer with his own seventeen-piece orchestra, he performs at civic and fundraising events. He is the founder of the nonprofit Entertainment Fellowship.
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An All Dogs Christmas Carol An All Dogs Christmas Carol or All Dogs Go To Heaven 3 is a 1998 animated TV movie which originally aired on ABC. To date, it is the final installment in the "All Dogs Go to Heaven" film series and it also serves as the series finale to the . Unlike the first two films, Carface is the story's main character. Usually, the main characters are Charlie and Itchy.