Toni Pagot

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Toni Pagot
Born
Antonio Pagotto

(1921-12-16)16 December 1921
Milan
Died7 July 2001(2001-07-07) (aged 79)
Roncello, Province of Monza and Brianza
Occupation(s)comics artist, animator, writer, cartoonist, director
Years active1938–2001

Toni Pagot (16 December 1921 – 7 July 2001) was an Italian comic artist, animator, writer, cartoonist and director, most famous as the creator of Calimero and Grisù .

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Life and career

Born Antonio Pagotto in Milan, in collaboration with his elder brother Nino, Pagot started his career in the fields of comics, animation and advertising. [1] After the Second World War, the two brothers created with The Dynamite Brothers , the first Italian feature-length animated film and the first Italian film in Technicolor. [1] [2] [3] In 1963, the Pagot brothers created their main successful character, the black chick Calimero. [1] [4] [5] In the 1970s, Pagot turned to work as a comic artist for Il Corriere dei Piccoli , Il Giornalino and Il Corriere dei Ragazzi . [1] [5] He was also co-creator and director of the animated series Grisù . [6]

His nephew Marco Pagot and niece Gi Pagot [7] also work in animation. They collaborated in the production of Hayao Miyazaki's Sherlock Hound , and other Italo-Japanese productions including Soccer Fever , Montana Jones , and Reporter Blues .

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Anna Antonini, Chiara Tognolotti. Mondi possibili: un viaggio nella storia del cinema d'animazione. Il principe costante, 2008. ISBN   8889645091.
  2. ↑ Silvio D'Amico. Enciclopedia dello spettacolo, Volume 6. Unedi-Unione editoriale, 1975.
  3. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876055487.
  4. ↑ Marco Giusti. Il grande libro di Carosello. Frassinelli, 2004. ISBN   8876847855.
  5. 1 2 Andrea Laffranchi. "Ora Calimero è anche orfano, addio a Toni Pagot". Corriere della Sera . p. 33. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Daniel Valentin Simion. Il Dizionario dei Cartoni Animati. Anton, 2009. ISBN   9788890390227.
  7. ↑ Eric J. Lyman. "Cartoons honor Italian animation brothers". The Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
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