Producer, author, and composer, educated at NYU. Until 1960, he worked
at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded a film production
company in New York. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and collaborated musically
with
Edward Thomas and
James Polack. His popular-song works include "Pinocchio,"
"Three Sad Souls," and "Daydreamer." His most famous and lasting
collaboration was with
Arthur Rankin Jr., with whom he partnered on many of his
hits, including all his ABC-TV Christmas specials of stop motion
animation and many cartoons.