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R.I.P. Filmation Founder Lou Scheimer
R.I.P. Filmation Founder Lou Scheimer
Before he made the most popular incarnation of He-Man, I enjoyed his Tarzan and Flash Gordon cartoons. Though known for cutting corners – the main reason He-Man and Prince Adam look exactly the same is so cels could be recycled – he was also proud of keeping his animation American, and ensuring that cartoons made to promote toys also had positive messages (he refused some characters like King Hiss because he found them inappropriately scary for younger kids).
Plus he was the voice of many supporting characters, like Orko and Stratos. The flag over Grayskull stands at metaphorical half-mast today.
About The Author
Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.)
Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist