Fred Laderman, known professionally as Fred Ladd, was an American television and film writer and producer.
15 Facts About Fred Ladd
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Fred Ladd is notable as the first to introduce Japanese animated cartoons to the Americas.
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When Fred Ladd was in high school, he liked a radio program for children called Let's Pretend, which dramatized children's stories, which would serve as an inspiration for him producing anime and for the American audiences.
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The agency acquired several nature documentaries, and Fred Ladd was given the job of repackaging them into a feature film.
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The deal resulted in the acquisition of animated cartoons, and Fred Ladd was given the job of repackaging and dubbing the films for the American market.
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Fred Ladd became the house specialist in the "Westernizing" of overseas animated programming.
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Fred Ladd's re-edited footage was augmented by new animated sequences and became part of a series entitled The Space Explorers which was syndicated to local TV stations from the late 1950s through the early 1960s.
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Fred Ladd co-operated with William Cayton in producing a film and television serial version of the Czech film Journey to the Beginning of Time.
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Producer Norm Prescott employed Fred Ladd to help reformat a 1965 Belgian animated feature Pinocchio dans l'espace, which was released theatrically by Universal in late 1965 as Pinocchio in Outer Space.
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Fred Ladd removed references to Asian religion in favor of Christianity and removed scenes to violence and nudity due to it being to risky for NBC's standard and practices and to the Western audience.
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When Fred Ladd flew to Mushi Productions in 1964 and explained the violent nature, they didn't understand, and they compared it to police brutality in the US.
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Fred Ladd continued his involvement in early anime imports with Gigantor for Delphi Associates and Kimba the White Lion for NBC Enterprises.
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Later, Fred Ladd was creative consultant for the 1995 English dub of Sailor Moon for DiC Entertainment.
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Fred Ladd was responsible for having various black-and-white cartoons for his company called Color Systems Inc such as Looney Tunes, Betty Boop, and others to be redrawn colorized in South Korea from 1968 to 1974.
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Fred Ladd died on August 3,2021, at the age of 94 from natural causes.