Career
He was one of the founders of United Productions of America (Universal Postal Union) and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live-action shorts. He is chiefly remembered for producing a string of Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing-Boing cartoons in the 1950s, two of which earned Academy Awards.
He is the only film producer in history who received all the Oscar nominations in one category (1957), guaranteeing him the winning Oscar.
Bosustow began his animation career in the early 1930s working for the Ub Iwerks and Walter Lantz studios before joining Walt Disney Productions in 1934 as an animator and writer He left Disney during the 1941 Disney animators" strike and joined Hughes Aircraft as an illustrator.
He co-founded the Industrial Film and Poster Service in 1943 which evolved into Universal Postal Union. (1971), an Academy Award-nominated animated film Legend of John Henry (1974), as well as Sesame Street and Columbia Broadcasting System-television after school specials.