In the late 60’s Ron Campbell, with his friend and colleague Duane Crowther (RIP), animated many scenes in The Beatles Yellow Submarine feature film, including the Sea of Time sequence, and much of the action between the Chief Blue Meanie and his boot-licking side-kick, Max.  He animated a lot of scenes involving the multi-named Boob, Hillary, the Nowhere Man. Earlier, he directed episodes made in Australia of the highly successful television series The Beatles.

Born in 1939 in Seymore, in the Australian state of Victoria, Ron Campbell was a force in animation for five decades, last working as an animation timing director on Ed, Edd, and Eddy, a mad-cap cartoon series for TV.

Campbell began his animation career in the late fifties, working in the early 60‘s on Beetle Bailey, Krazy Kat, and Cool McCool, and The Beatles. He then moved to the US and Hanna-Barbera, going on to write and produce cartoons for Sesame Street and animate on the original George of the Jungle and Tom Slick TV shows. His Hollywood studio, Ron Campbell Films, Inc.,  produced and directed the animation for The Big Blue Marble, winning many awards, including a Peabody for Excellence in Broadcasting and an Emmy for Best Children’s Show of the Year.In the early 1980s, he drew a majority of the storyboards for Hanna-Barbera’s hit series The Smurfs, including the Emmy-award winning Smurfolympics special. Also during the 70’s and 80’s, Campbell was a storyboard artist for The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and numerous other hit shows of the era, including Flintstones, Jetsons, Captain Caveman, Scooby-Doo and many other shows.The 1990s took Ron Campbell to Disney TV Animation where he was responsible for animation direction on Bonkers, Goof Troop, and Darkwing Duck. He also spent much of the decade storyboarding for Klasky-Csupo The Rugrats, Rocket Power, and the bizare adult cartoon, Duckman. During that time, he was nominated for an Emmy for a storyboard for Ahh! Real Monsters.

Since ‘retiring’, Ron Campbell has been doing Cartoon Pop Art paintings always based on the cartoon shows he has helped bring to the screen in one capacity or another. He has been showing his Cartoon Pop Art Beatles work in galleries internationally and all over the USA. You are invited to Google ‘Ron Campbell Animation Art’ to see some of that work and email him at campbellron73@yahoo.com