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Gene Deitch Dies: Oscar-Winning Illustrator, Film Director, Producer Was 95

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By Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-manager Gene Deitch, whose film Munro won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1960, died on Thursday in his apartment in Prague, according to his Czech publisher.

No cause of death was given. Deitch was also nominated for the same award twice in 1964 for Here’s Nudnik and How to Avoid Friendship.

Among his credits was creating the Tom Terrific short, which was presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children’s television show.

Created under the Terrytoons studio and adapted from an earlier Deitch comic strip, Tom Terrific was a black and white, five-minute short that was modeled on children’s drawings.

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