Bill Melendez

1916-2008

Thanks for giving us Peanuts.

In a career which stretched over half a century, he had a hand in animating all the early Disney and Warner Bros. characters, as well as later efforts Garfield and Cathy. But his greatest legacy remains his work with Charles Schulz, who reportedly trusted no one else to animate his work. He voiced Snoopy in all his incarnations, and gave the world a singular classic: