Fred Wolf (animator)

His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as The Point!

and Free to Be...You and Me, and television series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Jr., and Sarah Ferguson’s Budgie the Little Helicopter.

Wolf was also responsible for the famous Tootsie Pops “How Many Licks” commercial.

In the 1960s, Wolf set up a studio in Hollywood, California with Japanese-American animator Jimmy T. Murakami (later of The Snowman).

Both Murakami and Swenson eventually left the company, and in 1992, it became Fred Wolf Films.