Ron Campbell thought he was being tapped to draw crickets when he was asked to animate a Beatles cartoon series in his native Australia in the early 1960s. 'I didn't even know who The Beatles were ...

What he had not suspected was that producing so much in so short a span of time would actually enhance his career beyond anything he could have imagined. And while the details surrounding how he got ...

More than 50 years after the Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show," Beatlemania has barely subsided. This week, Beatles die-hards will be thrilled at the chance to meet Ron Campbell, director of ...

Ron Campbell animated your childhood. As an animator and storyboard artist working in the golden age of Saturday-morning cartoons, he’s worked on everything from Scooby-Doo and The Smurfs to Rugrats.

Television did not arrive in Australia until 1956. Ron Campbell was born in Australia on the day after Christmas in 1939, which dictated that he discover most cartoons as a lad at local cinemas, ...

Fifty years ago, Ron Campbell got an offer he couldn’t refuse. The first thing he did was refuse it. Campbell was kicking around his native Australia working as an animator on television commercials ...

The Beatles cast a long, fab shadow over many a career. In almost every interview he’s done, director Richard Lester says that no matter what films he’s done throughout his career, he will go into the ...

The first ever drawing of The Beatles' famous Yellow Submarine which is dubbed the 'holy grail of memorabilia' is set to fetch more than £10,000 at auction. The unique psychedelic cartoon, which is ...

As a boy in Australia in the 1940s, Ron Campbell was awestruck by the Saturday afternoon cartoons in the local movie theatre. Little did he realize that years later he would become a leading animator, ...