Billy Barty was the model for Bilbo, as well as Frodo and Sam, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping.

Billy Barty was the model for Sam, as well as Frodo and Bilbo, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping.

Filmmakers Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson stated that the reason the characters were omitted from their films was because, in their view, he ( Bombadil ) does little to advance the story, and would make their films unnecessarily long.

Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to director.

In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years before it was canceled due to complaints from a conservative political group over perceived drug references.

Ralph Bakshi was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine ( now Israel ), as a Krymchak Jew.

Bakshi recalled, " All my friends were black, everyone we did business with was black, the school across the street was black.

The racial segregation of local schools meant that the nearest white school was several miles away ; Bakshi obtained his mother's permission to attend the nearby black school with his friends.

Bakshi was the only white student in the classroom.

Fearing that segregated whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending a black school, the police dragged Bakshi from his classroom.

After participating in a food fight and being caught smoking, Bakshi was sent to the principal's office.

Believing Bakshi was unlikely to prosper at Thomas Jefferson, the principal transferred him to Manhattan's School of Industrial Art.

When Bakshi was 18, his friend Cosmo Anzilotti was hired by the cartoon studio Terrytoons ; Anzilotti recommended Bakshi to the studio's production manager, Frank Schudde.

Bakshi was hired as a cel polisher and commuted four hours each day to the studio, based in suburban New Rochelle.

After a few months, Schudde was surprised that Bakshi was still showing up to work, and promoted him to cel painter.

Bakshi began to practice animating ; to give himself more time, at one point he slipped ten cels he was supposed to work on into the " to-do " pile of a fellow painter, Leo Giuliani.

Bakshi married his first wife, Elaine, when he was 21.

Their son, Mark, was born when Bakshi was 22.

However, Deitch was not convinced that Bakshi had a modern design sensibility.

Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy ( 1994 ) and the anthology series Spicy City ( 1997 ).

The family lived in a low-rent apartment, where Bakshi became fascinated with the urban milieu.

In June 1956, Bakshi graduated from the school with an award in cartooning.

In response to the period's political climate and as a form of therapy, Bakshi drew the comic strips Bonefoot and Fudge, which satirized " idiots with an agenda ", and Junktown, which focused on " misfit technology and discarded ideals ".

In 1966, Bill Weiss asked Bakshi to help him carry presentation boards to Manhattan for a meeting with CBS.

Bakshi received a pay raise, but was not as satisfied with his career advancement as he had anticipated ; Rasinski had died in 1965, Bakshi did not have creative control over The Mighty Heroes, and he was unhappy with the quality of the animation, writing, timing and voice acting.

Bakshi met with Burt Hampft, a lawyer for the studio, and was hired to replace Culhane.

Hampft suggested that Bakshi work with producer Steve Krantz, who had recently fired Culhane as supervising director on the Canadian science fiction series Rocket Robin Hood.

Bakshi and background artist Johnnie Vita soon headed to Toronto, planning to commute between Canada and New York, with artists such as Morrow and Wood working from the United States.

Failing to reach a settlement with Guest, Krantz told Bakshi to grab the series ' model sheets and return to the United States.

Krantz arranged a meeting with Crumb, during which Bakshi presented the drawings he had created while learning the artist's distinctive style to prove that he could adapt Crumb's artwork to animation.

Artist Vaughn Bodé warned Bakshi against working with Crumb, describing him as " slick ".

Bakshi later agreed with Bodé's assessment, calling Crumb " one of the slickest hustlers you'll ever see in your life ".

Krantz sent Bakshi to San Francisco, where he stayed with Crumb and his wife, Dana, in an attempt to persuade Crumb to sign the contract.

Bakshi hired animators he had worked with in the past, including Vita, Tyer, Anzilotti and Nick Tafuri, and began the layouts and animation.

Although Bakshi did not have enough time to pitch the film, Gross agreed to fund its production and distribute it, believing that it would fit in with his grindhouse slate.

Bakshi did not have a lawyer, so he sought advice from fellow directors with whom he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.

Bakshi wanted the voices to sound organic, so he experimented with improvisation, allowing his actors to ad lib during the recording sessions.

Bakshi cast Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White and Charles Gordone in live-action and voice roles, cutting in and out of animation abruptly rather than seamlessly because he wanted to prove that the two mediums could " coexist with neither excuse nor apology ".

His later film appearances included the role of a wizened fable-telling convict in the extremely controversial Ralph Bakshi animated film Coonskin ( 1975 ), as a train porter in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), as a liveryman in The Shootist ( 1976 ), as a ringmaster of a struggling wild west show in Bronco Billy ( 1980 ), the Baseball coach and school teacher in Zapped!

Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi ( Sellers ) has a small role in which he sounds a bugle to start the attack.

Uttam Kumar had played the role of Byomkesh Bakshi while Shailen Mukherjee played the character of Ajit.

Satindra Bhattacharya replaced Uttam Kumar as Bakshi while Shailen Mukherjee reprised his role as Ajit.

Actor Rajit Kapur played the role of Byomkesh Bakshi, for which he was highly praised.

Actor Sudip Mukherjee debuted with the role of Byomkesh Bakshi.