Ralph Bakshi Filmography

Born:: October 26, 1938 in Haifa, Palestine
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Palestine native Ralph Bakshi was raised in a rough-and-tumble section of Brooklyn. A talented artist virtually from the time he could read and write, Bakshi was eighteen years old when he was hired as an opaquer at the Terrytoons animation studio. Recently purchased by the CBS television network...Read More

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Cool and the Crazy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Flint, Alicia Silverstone, Jared Leto

Synopsis: A young, married mother gets in over her head when she has an affair in this made-for-TV movie. Alicia Silverstone stars as Roslyn, a young mother who married her high school sweetheart (Jared Leto). She gets more than just excitement though when she accepts the nudging from a friend and has a Read More

1994
Cool World

Crew: Director

Actors: Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt, Michele Abrams, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Sex is cool, but sex with a hot animated tootsie is way cool. Such is the undercurrent running through Ralph Bakshi's confused and chaotic response to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The story begins with a prologue in postwar Las Vegas, where Vegas cop Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) is catapulted into the Read More

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Cannonball Run II

Crew: Animator, Special Effects

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

1984
Fire and Ice

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Susan Tyrrell, Maggie Roswell, William Ostrander, Stephen Mendel, Clare Nono

Synopsis: Ralph Bakshi's last stab at epic fantasy takes place shortly after the Ice Age. The evil queen Juliana (voice of Eileen O'Reill) plots to conquer the world and raises her son Nekron (Sean Hannon) as a master of sorcery and arcane mental powers. Together the two conquer the Ice Kingdom, and from Read More

1983
Hey Good Lookin'

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Romanus, David Proval, Tina Bowman, Jesse Welles, Angelo Grisanti

Synopsis: Director/animator Ralph Bakshi turns his attention to 1950s Brooklyn in Hey Good Lookin', which looks at greasers hanging out (and making out) on street corners, hot girls, and gang rumbles, all set in a decaying urban landscape. The main action concerns Vinnie (voice of Richard Romanus), the Read More

1982
American Pop

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Hilary Beane, Vincent Schiavelli, Ron Thompson, Marya Small, Jerry Holland, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa

Synopsis: The rise and growth of American popular music through the 20th century is reflected in the lives of four generations of one family in this animated drama directed by Ralph Bakshi. Zalmie (voice of Jeffrey Lippa), a Russian Jew, emigrates to America, and tries to struggle along as a comic and Read More

1981
The Lord of the Rings

Crew: Art Director, Director

Actors: Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Sholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard

Synopsis: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi's literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, is brought to the screen in a reverent, stilted way, with Bakshi forsaking his sharp-edged animated looniness for a rotoscoped dullness. Although the film's title Read More

1978
Wizards

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this animated futuristic tale, a pair of twins must fight for domination of what is left of the world, the good man using the powers of magic in an attempt to save the Earth, and the evil twin taking advantage of the horrors of technology that again threaten to destroy everything. ~ Iotis Read More

1977
Coonskin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Barry White, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers, Philip Thomas

Synopsis: Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic helmer Ralph Bakshi subsequently directed the über-controversial animated feature Coonskin (aka Streetfight, 1975). Bakshi opens and closes the film with a live-action tale that stars Scatman Crothers, Miami Vice's Philip Michael Thomas, Charles Gordone, and Barry White Read More

1975
Heavy Traffic

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Heavy Traffic represents a follow-up to animator Ralph Bakshi's first feature film, Fritz the Cat (1972). The central character is Michael, the ingenuous son of an Italian father and Jewish mother. An aspiring cartoonist, Michael leaves home in a huff and outrages his family by conducting an Read More

1973
Mighty Heroes: Stretcher

Crew: Director

1967
Mighty Heroes: Shrinker

Crew: Director

1966