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American animator and voice actor

Louis Scheimer (October 19, 1928 – October 17, 2013) was an American producer and voice actor who was one of the original founders of Filmation. He was also credited as an executive producer of many of its cartoons.

Scheimer was the son of a German Jew who, according to family legend, had to leave Germany in the early 1920s after punching a young Adolf Hitler in 1921 or 1922, "well before" the Beer Hall Putsch. Scheimer graduated from Carnegie Tech University (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1952.

In the mid 1950s, Scheimer was appointed to the position of art director while working at Larry Harmon Pictures on the made for TV Bozo and Popeye cartoons. He formed a close working relationship with former Disney animator Hal Sutherland, with he two later becoming business partners. Larry Harmon eventually closed the studio in 1961. Scheimer and Sutherland went to work at a small company called True Line. While working there, they were contracted by SIB Productions, a Japanese firm with U. S. offices in Chicago, who approached them about producing a cartoon called Rod Rocket. The two agreed to take on the work and also took on a project for Family Films, Life of Christ, a series of ten short animated films based on the life of Christ. Paramount Pictures soon purchased SIB Productions, and the contract allowed True Line to hire additional staff, such as former radio disc jockey Norm Prescott. Scheimer and Sutherland formed a close relationship with their new co worker. In 1962, Scheimer, Sutherland and Prescott eventually left True Line, and Scheimer began independently working on commercials. He figured that he could form his own company to produce animation. In September of that year, he, Sutherland and Ira Epstein, who had worked for Harmon but had left the firm, formed Filmation Associates. The company's name was invented because according to Scheimer, "We were working on film, but doing animation." Prescott joined them soon after the company's formation, and the trio were the company's main producers. For Star Trek: The Animated Series, Scheimer won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series. Early in Filmation's history, Scheimer also contributed a number of guest or secondary voices for the various productions. Most notably, he provided the voice of Dumb Donald on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. He was also the voice of Legal Eagle and the Brown Hornet's sidekick Stinger and the voice over narrator during the opening credits of the majority of Filmation shows and cartoons. In Jason of Star Command and Space Academy, he was consistently heard as generic voices over intercoms. In the live action series The Ghost Busters, which starred Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch with Bob Burns, he was the voice of Zero, the unseen boss of the main characters. Scheimer also provided the voices of Stubby on The New Adventures of Gilligan, N'kima on Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, Bat Mite, the Bat Computer and Clayface on The New Adventures of Batman, M. O. on Space Sentinels, Spinner and Scarab on Tarzan and the Super 7s Web Woman, Dinny on Fabulous Funnies, Mighty Mouse on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse, Spike, Tuffy, Slick Wolf and Barney Bear on The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, the Olympian Computer on Sport Billy, Gremlin on The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, Bumper on Gilligan's Planet, and Tracy the Gorilla on Ghostbusters. The Filmation studio had emerged as a leading company in television animation, but it was no longer an independent company. The studio was purchased by the TelePrompTer Corporation in 1969. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, through its Group W Productions division, acquired Filmation along with its purchase of TelePrompTer's cable and entertainment properties in 1981. Despite this, Scheimer continued leading the company. He played a significant role in the creation of the cartoons He Man and the Masters of the Universe and BraveStarr. As well as the executive producer, he was also co credited for the series' musical score under the pseudonym "Erika Lane" (which combined the names of his daughter Erika and son Lane). It had also been used as a character name on the 1967 Filmation series Fantastic Voyage. He became a voice actor for the show (as he had done for many of his company's previous productions), going under the pseudonym "Erik Gunden". The last name was taken from his father's original surname: "Gundenscheimer" (which was later shortened to Scheimer). The first name was Lou's middle name, which he was not given by his parents, but instead by his wife Jay, who felt that he should have one. Scheimer's contribution to the cast was, in fact, most notable as he voiced several supporting characters, including Orko (and other characters with a similar Smurfs voice), Stratos, King Randor and others. The reason that Scheimer performed the voices for so many supporting characters was that the "official" voice actors were contracted to perform no more than three different voices per episode. Since there were usually only three regular cast members working on each show, Scheimer would fill in the rest of the male cast. This is also why his wife and daughter did various small parts in the first season of He Man, with Erika Scheimer performing supporting female voices and occasional voice acting for young boy characters. During the second season of He Man, and all of She Ra: Princess of Power, Erika received an onscreen credit as an actor and also directed the voice actors, and she and her father recorded the remaining voices on their own later, because he did not see himself as a "proper" actor and was ashamed of recording with the other voice actors due to severe budget restrictions. He died from the disease at his home in Tarzana, California, on October 17, 2013, two days before his 85th birthday.

YearTitleProducerExecutive producerNotes1966The New Adventures of Superman✔4 episodes1967Journey to the Center of the Earth✔17 episodesThe Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure✔3 episodes1967 1969Aquaman✔18 episodes1968 1969The Adventures of Batman✔3 episodesFantasic Voyage✔17 episodes1968 1971The Archie Show✔Aka Archie's Funhouse1969Archie and His New Pals✔Television movie1969 1971The Hardy Boys✔1969 1972Sabrina the Teenage Witch✔61 episodes1970Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down✔Episode: "Computer Suitor"Groovie Goolies✔16 episodes1971Aesop's Fables✔Television movieArchie's TV Funnies✔16 episodes1972Journey Back to Oz✔The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie✔3 episodes1972 1973The Brady Kids✔22 episodesLassie's Rescue Rangers ✔16 episodes1973Treasure Island✔My Favorite Martians✔16 episodesMission: Magic!✔16 episodes1973 1974Star Trek: The Animated Series✔22 episodes1974Oliver Twist✔The U. S. Of Archie✔16 episodes1974 1975The New Adventures of Gilligan✔24 episodes1974 1976Shazam!✔28 episodes1975The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty✔13 episodesThe Ghost Busters✔15 episodesWacky and Packy✔Episodes: "The New York Sweats"1975 1976Uncle Croc's Block✔The Secrets of Isis✔22 episodes1976Ark II✔15 episodes1976 1979Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle✔36 episodes1977The New Adventures of Batman✔16 episodesThe New Archie and Sabrina Hour✔The Fat Albert Halloween Special ✔Television movieSpace Sentinels✔13 episodesSpace Academy✔15 episodesThe Fat Albert Christmas Special✔Television movie1977 1978Sabrina, Super Witch✔Archie's Bang Shang Lalapalooza Show✔1978The Freedom Force✔5 episodesFabulous Funnies✔13 episodes1978 1979Tarzan and the Super 7✔33 episodes1978 1979Jason of Star Command✔28 episodes1979 1980The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle✔1979 1982The New Adventures of Flash Gordon✔24 episodes1979 1985Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids✔✔5 episodes1980 1981Sport Billy✔26 episodes1980A Snow White Christmas✔Television movie1980 1982The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show✔The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour✔28 episodes1981Blackstar✔13 episodesThe New Adventures of Zorro✔13 episodes1981 1982The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!✔Hero High✔1982The Fat Albert Easter Special✔Television movieFlash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All✔Television movieMighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase✔Gilligan's Planet✔13 episodes1983 1985He Man and the Masters of the Universe✔130 episodes1985He Man and She Ra: The Secret of the Sword✔He Man and She Ra: A Christmas Special✔Television movie1985 1987She Ra: Princess of Power✔93 episodes1986Ghostbusters✔65 episodes1987Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night✔1987 1988BraveStarr✔65 episodes1988BraveStarr: The Legend✔1989Town Musicians of Bremen✔Happily Ever After✔2000Robin and the Dreamweavers✔