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Ted Parmelee

Directing

Biography

Ted Parmelee was born on October 10, 1912 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He was a director, known for Peabody's Improbable History (1959), Four Wheels, No Brakes (1954) and The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1954). He died on August 29, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known For

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
10.0

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The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

1956
The Tell-Tale Heart
7.3

A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

The Tell-Tale Heart

1953
Pete Hothead
8.0

This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper. Pete Hothead was featured in only one other cartoon. In this one he receives a parrot from a store rather than the radio he ordered. In his attempts to exchange the parrot for a radio, he cause much havoc, disruptions and chaos in the store. He finally gets his radio, but then decides he'd rather have a television set.

Pete Hothead

1952
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5.9

Mr. Magoo is hired by his neighbors to babysit their little son, Homer. Magoo is delighted to accept but, unfortunately, a notorious cat burglar is intent on entering and robbing the house Magoo is babysitting it. To make matters worse, Magoo is constantly confusing Homer with the family dog and vice versa. When the thief finally breaks in, all chaos breaks loose but everything turns out all right in the end when the thief is apprehended thanks to the dog who is more alert than Magoo was.

Pink and Blue Blues

1952
The Emperor's New Clothes
7.0

The king is offered a fine new suit that can only be seen by wise people, and walks naked in the procession.

The Emperor's New Clothes

1953
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
7.5

Sort of a cartoon version of "All About Eve" or people-using-people themes. It opens with a man singing the title song, accompanied by a pianist, a trumpeter and a trombonist. A flashback to the story of Fifi who leaves Waldo for Alonzo, and then leaves Alonzo for the circus owner. Back in the present it is shown that all three men are the musicians and they are almost run down by a limousine, occupied by Fifi, now a stage star.

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

1954
Four Wheels, No Brakes
7.0

Pete Hothead decides to buy a new car to replace his old beat-up jalopy. Meanwhile, his wife has won a new car on a television quiz show that is the same make and model as the car Pete purchases from a car-dealer. Pete arrives home and sees the car his wife won and mistakes it for the one he ordered from the dealer, but it is a different color. He drives it back to the showroom for a replacement, and that begins the first of many problems he is to encounter.

Four Wheels, No Brakes

1954