Børge Ring

Børge Ring (17 February 1921 – 27 December 2018) was a Danish animated short film writer, director and animator. His 1978 short film Oh My Darling won the Best Short Film award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, and his 1984 short film Anna & Bella won the Best Animated Short Film award at that year's Academy Awards.

Personal life and death Børge Ring was the son of composer Oluf Ring. He was born in Ribe, Denmark, and his family later moved to Funen. Ring worked on an adaption of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Tinderbox, which was the first Danish animated feature. In 1947, Ring and his friends Bjørn Frank Jensen and Arne Rønde Christensen opened up a cartoon studio in Vedbæk near Copenhagen. The studio started by doing commercials.

His 1978 short film Oh My Darling won the Best Short Film award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, The short was redubbed and aired on television in the United States as part of the short-lived series Jokebook. He worked on the introduction to the 1983 film Curse of the Pink Panther. In 1986, Ring composed a flute song for the Danish cartoon Valhalla. In 2014, his autobiography was published.