Burbank Studio
Millard Kaufman
Notes
We interviewed Millard and Lorraine Kaufman at their home in Bel Aire, California, in 2011.
Millard Kaufman is credited with the creation of Mr. Magoo, in terms of the character’s personality traits, and he worked with John Hubley to create the physical characteristics. Although, Kaufman wrote the first Magoo and many other UPA films, he was primarily a live action feature film writer.
Millard Kaufman is part of one of the presently unreleased scenes.
Erv Kaplan
Notes
We interviewed Erv Kaplan in his home studio in Tarzana in 2006.
Erv Kaplan had a long career at Filmation, but before that he worked on background at UPA, often under the tutelage of Bob McIntosh. He fact, he and Bob stayed friends for many years and spend long hours discussing fine art, which they both enjoyed in later years. Erv has been one of the last remaining artists from the glory years of UPA, and was among a handful of them who graced a panel discussion at a UPA Tribute in 2010, at an AniMazSpot festival that year at Woodbury University.
