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- Leo Salkin was born on February 1, 1913 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a producer and writer, known for Man on the Moon (1999), Omnibus (1952) and The Music Machine: An Adventure in Agapeland (1990). He died on October 13, 1993 in Burbank, California, USA.
- For years he worked in various capacities on the UPA Mister Magoo cartoons that were intended for television broadcast. Visitors immediately saw his physical resemblance to Magoo: he was a small, bald, round-faced gentleman (though his vision was fine). Salkin confirmed, however, that Magoo had been created long before he joined the UPA staff, so it was not based on him.
- Joined the animation department of Universal Studios straight from school.
- After wartime service in the U.S. Navy, Salkin went to New York and worked as a gag man for the ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummy, Jerry Mahoney.
- Animated the famous Siamese cat sequence for Lady and the Tramp (1955).
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