10 Facts About Doug Crane

Doug Crane married his wife, Maureen Hurley, at the time.

Doug Crane took a break from animating during the beginning of his animation career and went to the United States Army in 1958.

Doug Crane then went on to animate for films, television series, television commercials, half-hour specials.

Doug Crane worked on Challenge of the Superfriends, The Smurfs, and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, as well as one episode of the original television series, "Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead".

Doug Crane received a Clio Award and a National Television Commercials Award for his work on a Wall Street Journal commercial.

Doug Crane was an animation professor at his alma mater, School of Visual Arts, formerly known as the Cartoonist and Illustrators School, where he taught classical animation for 15 years.

Doug Crane was invited to teach at the Institute of Animation and Film at the Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Doug Crane spent time as the Artist In Residence at the Thornton-Donovan School in New Rochelle.

Doug Crane served the Westchester County residents as an Auxiliary police officer, a Grand Knight at the New Rochelle Knights of Columbus, and as the Municipal Arts Commissioner where he planned and carried out the weekend-long 40th Anniversary celebration for Terrytoons in February 1982.

Doug Crane died of cancer at age 85 on December 17,2020, in Stuart, Florida.