American animator Jack Zander dies, aged 99
{{date|December 20, 2007}}
{{missing image|Image:Puss Get the Boot.jpg|thumb|A screenshot of ''Puss Gets The Boot'', which Zander animated}}

{{w|Jack Zander}}, the animator whose career lasted from the "golden age" of theatrical animation into the 1980s, has died at the age of 99 on Monday, December 17.

Born in May of 1908, he helped animate the {{w|Tom and Jerry}} cartoons with {{w|William Hanna}} and {{w|Joseph Barbera}}, including ''{{w|Puss Gets the Boot}}'' (1940), ''The Night Before Christmas'' (1941), ''{{w|Fine Feathered Friend}}'' (1942), and ''{{w|Sufferin' Cats}}'' (1943). 

Zander was nominated for an Outstanding Animated Program {{w|Emmy Award|Emmy}} in 1981 for ''Gnomes'', and in 1984 he won the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists' Golden Award.

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=21779|title=Animation Vet Jack Zander Dead at 99|author=|pub=AWN headline news|date=December 19, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=20479|title=Jack Zander 1908-2007|author=Ed Liu|pub=Toon Zone|date=December 19, 2007}}

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, the animator whose career lasted from the "golden age" of theatrical animation into the 1980s, has died at the age of 99 on Monday, December 17.

Born in May of 1908, he helped animate the William Hanna and Puss Gets the Boot (1940), The Night Before Christmas (1941), Sufferin' Cats (1943). 

Zander was nominated for an Outstanding Animated Program Emmy in 1981 for Gnomes, and in 1984 he won the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists' Golden Award.
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