Norm Prescott

Norman Prescott, was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios. Prescott was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1927. He began his career in radio there, becoming program director at station WORL in the late 1940s. He went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1959, serving as vice president of music, merchandising and post-production. He and Lou Scheimer formed Filmation in 1965.

Productions

• The 1965 animated film Pinocchio in "Outer Space"
• The New Adventures of Superman
• Fantastic Voyage
• The Batman/Superman Hour
• The Archie Show
• The Hardy Boys
• Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
• The Groovie Goolies
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• The Brady Kids
• Lassie's Rescue Rangers
• My Favorite Martians
• The US of Archie
• The New Adventures of Gilligan
• The Original Ghostbusters
• Tarzan and the Super 7
• Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

Other Professional Work

Prescott also produced and directed the 1973 animated film Treasure Island and produced and wrote 1974's Journey Back to Oz which featured Liza Minnelli as the voice of Dorothy.

Filmation produced the popular Star Trek animated series in 1973, and Prescott was a voice performer in the show. Prescott also was producer for the cartoon series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, The Space Sentinels, The new Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, Blackstar, Sport Billy, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and BraveStarr.

Prescott died in Los Angeles on July 2 2005 at the age of 78.