Buzz Potamkin
Production
Potamkin is known for founding Perpetual Motion Pictures (later called Buzzco Associates) with Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli in 1968, which led to the production of hundreds of television advertisements, including the Hawaiian Punch series, MTV's "Top of the Hour" (the moon man), and MTV's "I Want My MTV" campaign. He also established the companies Visionary Media, Project X, and Southern Star Productions, an Australian/American subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera. Potamkin produced the animated specials The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree in 1979 and Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue in 1990, among others. After working at The Walt Disney Company for a short period in 1991, Potamkin was hired by Fred Seibert as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons' Executive Producer & Head of TV, where he oversaw all the studio's output and produced shorts for Cartoon Network's "What a Cartoon!" series through 1996. Potamkin died from pancreatic cancer on April 22, 2012, and was survived by his wife Rosie.
Known for
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tvCow and Chicken
1997
Executive Producer
movieTumbleweed Tex in School Daze
1996
Executive Producer
moviePizza Boy in No Tip
1996
Executive Producer
movieHillbilly Blue
1996
Executive Producer
movieBoid 'n' Woim
1996
Executive Producer
movieNo Smoking
1995
Executive Producer
movieYoink of the Yukon
1995
Executive Producer
movieGeorge and Junior's Christmas Spectacular
1995
Executive Producer
movieO. Ratz: Rat in a Hot Tin Can
1995
Executive Producer
movieThe Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply in "A Clean Getaway"
1995
Executive Producer
movieShake & Flick: Raw Deal in Rome
1995
Executive Producer
Hard Luck Duck
1995
Executive Producer
Dino In Stay Out
1995
Executive Producer
moviePowerpuff Girls : Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins
1995
Executive Producer
tvWhat a Cartoon!
1995
Executive Producer
movieDaisy-Head Mayzie
1995
Executive Producer
Help?
1995
Executive Producer
movieA Flintstones Christmas Carol
1994
Executive Producer
movieThe Town Santa Forgot
1993
Executive Producer
movieThe Halloween Tree
1993
Executive Producer
tvSWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
1993
Executive Producer
movieMad Scientist
1988
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