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His father Edward was a tailor and a shirt-maker.
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Norm Prescott
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Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, his real name was Norman Pransky. A graduate of Boston Latin School and Boston University, he began his career as a disk jockey. His first radio job, c.
1947, was at WHEB in Portsmouth New Hampshire. In 1948 he joined WHDH, and in October 1950, he became program director at station WORL. He briefly worked in New York at WNEW, before relocating to WBZ radio in late 1955.
In 1956, he became one of the "Live Five" after WBZ dropped its syndicated National Broadcasting Company programming and went on the air with live disc jockeys. In the summer of 1959, he left radio and went to work for Joseph East. Levine"s Embassy Pictures Corporation, serving as vice president of music, merchandising and post-production.
He, Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland formed Filmation in 1963. Pinocchio in Outer Space (Belgian co-produced feature film)
The New Adventures of Superman
Fantastic Voyage
The Batman/Superman Hour
The Archie Show
The Hardy Boys
Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? The Groovie Goolies
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
The Brady Kids
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Lassie"s Rescue Rangers
My Favorite Martians
The United States. of Archie
The New Adventures of Gilligan
The Original Ghostbusters
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Tarzan and the Super 7
Ark II
Prescott also produced and directed the 1973 animated film Treasure Island and produced and wrote 1974"s Journey Back to Oz which featured Liza Minnelli as the voice of Dorothy.
(Ms Minnelli is the daughter of Judy Garland, who portrayed that same character in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"s 1939 live action film)
Filmation produced the popular Star Trek animated series in 1973.
Prescott also was producer for the cartoon series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, The Space Sentinels, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, Blackstar, and Sport Billy. Prescott died of natural causes in Los Angeles on July 2, 2005, at the age of 78. Professionally, he was survived by Scheimer and his colleagues at Filmation.
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