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'KISS Meets The Phantom' Executive Producer Dies At 95

December 19, 2006

According to KissKollector.com, Joseph Barbera — the executive producer of KISS' first movie "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park", died yesterday (Monday, Dec. 18) at age 95. Barbera, who along with William Hanna (who passed away in 2001) achieved great success with "Tom & Jerry", "The Flinstones", "Scooby-Doo" and "The Huckleberry Hound Show" (to name but a few),was born on March 24, 1911 in New York City. He passed away at his home in Los Angeles, CA.

Joseph Roland (Joe) Barbera co-founded Hanna-Barbera with William Hanna, after the two had already teamed up in 1938 to direct theatrical short cartoons. Two years later their first "Tom & Jerry" movie saw the light of day: "Puss Gets The Boot". The duo won no less than seven Academy Awards for Best (Cartoon) Short Subject. The Hanna-Barbera studio produced many well-known cartoons and by the late '60s had become the most successful television animation studio around. In '78 Hanna-Barbera Productions produced "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park", which was one of America's most succesful TV movies and was shown in cinemas in other countries a year later.

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