Fred Ladd

Fred Laderman known professionally as Fred Ladd, was an American television and film writer and producer. He is notable as the first to introduce anime to the Americas.

Biography Ladd, a Toledo, Ohio, native, graduated from Scott High School in 1945 and from Ohio State University in 1949 with degrees in radio and speech. As a child, he did impersonations of movie stars including Betty Boop. When Ladd was in high school, he liked a radio program for children called Let's Pretend, which dramatized children's stories, which would serve as an inspiration for him producing anime and for the American audiences.

Ladd was also responsible for having various black-and-white cartoons for his company called Color Systems Inc. such as Looney Tunes, Betty Boop, and others to be redrawn colorized in South Korea from 1968 to 1974. He died on August 3, 2021, at the age of 94 from natural causes.

Screenwriting Anime television series dubs Astro Boy (1963–1965) Gigantor (1966) Kimba the White Lion (1966–1967) The Snow Queen (1981)

Original television scripts The Underseas Explorers (1961) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1979) Hero High (1981) The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! (1981) The Incredible Hulk (1982) M.A.S.K. (1985) Ghostbusters (1986)

Foreign film dubs Pippi in the South Seas (1974) Pippi Goes on Board (1975) Pippi on the Run (1977)

Original film scripts The Space Explorers (1958) Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965) Journey Back to Oz (1972)