Rudolph Animator Arthur Rankin Jr Passes Away at 89

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) Animator Arthur Rankin Jr passed away recently at the age of 89. He wrote and animated several other television specials including The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty The Snowman, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and The Year Without Santa Claus. He even earned a Peabody Award for the animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.