Don Jurwich, Hanna-Barbera And Marvel Veteran, Dies At 87

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By the mid-1960s, he’d landed at Hanna-Barbera working on The Flintstones. Jurwich would go on to produce and direct series including Super Friends, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Richie Rich, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, The Smurfs (for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy), and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. He also produced the primetime special Scooby Goes Hollywood.

From the 1980s, Jurwich played key roles on several Marvel Productions series. He directed Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and produced The Incredible Hulk and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

Jurwich’s credits ranged beyond these two studios. He worked on the cult feature Heavy Metal and directed, wrote, and produced Once Upon a Girl, a hybrid sexploitation film from 1976, on which he worked with a crew of Hanna-Barbera artists. He also co-created the Yoink! of the Yukon segment of Cartoon Network’s What a Cartoon! anthology series.

After retiring, Jurwich drew and painted full-time, eventually exhibiting his art at two shows at the Animation Guild in Burbank.


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