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211:'s death. Anderson, who had not received public recognition for creating Dudley Do-Right, Bullwinkle and Rocky, learned the characters had been copyrighted in Ward's name alone. Consequently, Anderson sued Ward's heirs to reclaim creator credit. In 1993 or 1996, (sources differ), Anderson received a settlement and a court order acknowledging him as "the creator of the first version of the characters of Rocky, Bullwinkle and Dudley." 238:. He was survived by his wife of 36 years, Patricia Larsen Anderson, his third spouse following divorces from first wife Gail and second wife Beverly. He had two children from his first marriage, sons Terry and Scott, and three stepchildren, Matthew Kennedy, Carolyn Kennedy, and Daniel Kennedy. 193:, a former real-estate salesman and childhood friend, formed a business in the late 1940s to pitch cartoon ideas to television, including Crusader Rabbit, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. In 1948, Anderson and Ward created a television pilot, "The Comic Strips of Television" 779: 754: 186:
Anderson pitched a "limited animation" cartoon series for TV to his uncle, Paul Terry, but 20th Century Fox, who distributed Terrytoons cartoons, saw TV as a threat.
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Anderson saw a 1991 documentary about the show which did not mention his name, he filed suit against Jay Ward Productions, two years after
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Only Crusader Rabbit was accepted, and after Anderson's other cartoon ideas failed to sell, he joined a
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The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose
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animation studio. Anderson served in Navy intelligence during World War II.
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advertising agency, becoming an art director, while Ward moved to
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Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery (Colma, California)
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at the age of 90 on October 22, 2010, at a nursing home in
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Alexander Hume Anderson Jr. was born September 5, 1920, in
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Index

Alex Anderson (disambiguation)
Berkeley, California
Carmel, California
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Paul Terry
cartoonist
Rocky the Flying Squirrel
Bullwinkle
Dudley Do-Right
Crusader Rabbit
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Berkeley, California
University of California, Berkeley
California School of Fine Arts
San Francisco
San Francisco Art Institute
Mighty Mouse
Paul Terry
Terrytoons
Jay Ward
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Jay Ward
Ted Key
Hazel
Mr. Peabody
Alzheimer's disease
Carmel, California

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