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Darrell McNeil was born on 26 November, 1957 in Inglewood, California, United States, is an American animator. Discover Darrell McNeil's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 26 November 1957
Birthday 26 November
Birthplace Inglewood, California, United States
Date of death 2018
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Nationality United States

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1957

Darrell Tyrone "Big D" McNeil (November 26, 1957 - July 4, 2018) was an American animator, writer, editor, publisher, producer, and actor.

He started at the age of eight performing as a background actor and bit player in various movies and television series.

He entered the animation industry at the age of 18 with Hanna-Barbera Productions.

He was most recently developing and producing a number of animated and live action projects through his own company, Gold Medal Productions.

McNeil was born in Inglewood, California in the Los Angeles area, (specifically Inglewood) of California in 1957.

Always interested in television, McNeil became a member of the Screen Children's Guild.

For the next several years, McNeil worked on a variety of different shows and movies, including 13 episodes of "The Brady Bunch", "Family Affair", "Cowboy In Africa", "The Partridge Family", and "Archie's Funhouse" {as one of the live action kids in the audience} for his future animation studio employer Filmation Associates.

Even more than acting, he wanted to do animation.

1966

In 1966, when the first of animated series produced specifically for the nascent "Saturday Morning Television" time period began airing, he was especially impressed by Hanna-Barbera's "Space Ghost and Dino Boy".

He decided he would not only strive to become an animator, but that he would work for Hanna-Barbera, meet and befriend the main people involved with Space Ghost, and work on Space Ghost himself and get his name in the credits for it....all of which he eventually managed to do.

1975

After graduating from Westchester High School in 1975, McNeil attended Cal State University Long Beach where he took an animation history class taught by veteran Hanna-Barbera producer Art Scott.

At a UCLA "Saturday Morning" class he met William Hanna and Joseph Barber themselves, and was encouraged by Barbera to pitch some of his own show concepts as possible H+B shows.

He thus became the first black H-B writer/artist as well as the youngest creator (age 18) to sell animated show concepts.

Three of the seven series he pitched were optioned.

Hanna encouraged McNeil to enter H-B's then new training program, which the studio had created to train the next generation of animation artists.

While still 18, McNeil was hired by H-B to become an inbetweener for the studio.

He met and became close friends with Space Ghost developer/creator Alex Toth and Space Ghost voice Gary Owens.

1976

Starting with Hanna-Barbera in 1976, McNeil worked for numerous animation studios over the next four decades, including Filmation Associates, Ruby-Spears, DIC, Bakshi, Encore, Saban Entertainment, Marvel, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Disney, Invision, Calico, Vignette, Don Bluth, Universal, Warner Bros, Stan Lee/The Firm, and even a stint at Paramount animating special effects for the first "Star Trek" feature film.

Due to a decision made early in his career to leave working for union animation studios and to work mainly for local non-union studio subcontractors Hutten/Love, McNeil got no screen credit for much of the work and many of the series he worked for.

McNeil also became a noted animation historian, particularly with the studios that produced television animation in the 60s thru the 70's. He started writing about his work on and about various Saturday morning cartoons shortly after he first began animating.

Starting with a yearly correspondence with the writer/editor of DC Comics "Super Friends" comic book, E. Nelson Bridwell, he started writing about and covering comic book based animation and live-action productions for a number of publications and periodicals, including The Comics Reader, Comics Buyers Guide (CBG), Comics Scene, and TOON Magazine (which he cofounded) among many others.

He later co-wrote two animation books, "Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure" and "Animation by Filmation".

He later joined with his long time mentor and closest friend, legendary comic book/animation artist Alex Toth, to co-write "Alex Toth: By Design".

Under auspices of his Gold Medal Productions, McNeil has created over a hundred new concepts over the decades, several of them co-developed with Alex Toth.

He optioned nearly a dozen concepts to various companies including Hanna-Barbera, Encore Enterprises, Riverstar Entertainment, and JDL Productions.

Some of these are currently in the process of being launched on the web via his streaming subscription based website, "Big D's PC-TV".

1980

He eventually served as lead layout artist on a revival of "Space Ghost" in 1980.

1981

Hero High (1981) [uncredited]