Person
Buzz Potamkin
Production
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- Nov 22, 1945
- Died
- Apr 22, 2012
- From
- New York, New York, United States
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.
Credits

Shake & Flick: Raw Deal in Rome

O. Ratz: Rat in a Hot Tin Can

Boid 'n' Woim

Pizza Boy in No Tip

Tumbleweed Tex in School Daze

Daisy-Head Mayzie

Hillbilly Blue

A Flintstones Christmas Carol

The Berenstain Bears' Easter Surprise

The Berenstain Bears Play Ball

Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City

The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine

The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers

The Adventures of the Maltese Cat

Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

Yoink of the Yukon
Hard Luck Duck