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In 2003, Harmon released six of his Bozo's Big Top programs with Avruch on DVD and 2 box sets of 30 episodes each in 2007 retitled "Larry Harmon's Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown Vols.1 & 2." The WGN Bozo shows have not been released commercially in any video format. On July 3, 2008, Larry Harmon died of congestive heart failure at the age ...
Harmon began making the first of thousands of appearances as Bozo the Clown after attending a casting call in the late 1940s. [3] In 1957, Harmon purchased the licensing rights to the Bozo character from Capitol Records, which had promoted the character on its children's albums as "Bozo the Capitol Clown", and he aggressively marketed the property.
Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown is a 1958–1962 American animated television series based on the children's record book series, Bozo the Clown by Capitol Records. [1] This series was produced by Larry Harmon Pictures, which began syndication in 1958. [2] Lou Scheimer, of Filmation fame, was the art director for the series.
Larry Harmon Pictures was the production company of Larry Harmon, who had acquired the rights to the characters Bozo the Clown. The company produced cartoons featuring Bozo the Clown, as well as Popeye, Mr. Magoo, Dick Tracy and Laurel & Hardy. [1] The staff at the studio included former Disney animator Hal Sutherland and Lou Scheimer.
In 1959, WHDH purchased the rights to Bozo the Clown from Larry Harmon and Avruch won the role. [1] In 1966, Harmon decided to replace all of the local versions of Bozo with a single nationally syndicated show and chose Avruch to serve as Bozo. Avruch taped 180 episodes of Bozo’s Big Top for national syndication. [5]
Bell retired from WGN-TV and The Bozo Show in 1984, [16] and was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1996. [2] [17] [18] Larry Harmon, who owned the rights to the Bozo the Clown character, refused to congratulate Bell on the honor and also prohibited him from receiving it in costume, as was customary at inductions. [19] [20]
Pages in category "Bozo the Clown" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Larry Harmon; L. Alan W. Livingston; M. Bob McNea
On January 5, 1959, he became the first to portray Bozo the Clown on a franchised Bozo program licensed by Larry Harmon. In the role that his father Pinto Colvig first portrayed on Capitol Records in 1946 and KTTV-TV in Los Angeles in 1949, Vance portrayed the whiteface clown Bozo on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1964.