Bob Balser began his career in 1955 as a layout artist at Norman Wright Productions. A year later he was Layout Production Supervisor on the title sequence of Michael Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days.

In 1958 Bob was the Title Designer for The Brain Eaters. From 1971 ­ 1973 Bob was Supervising Director on Rankin-Bass's Jackson Five series. The next season he opened Pegbar Productions in Barcelona, Spain, and continued his Jackson Five work. Over the next two decades he did nearly a dozen other series for European TV, in addition to contract work for US television.

In 1974 he directed Little Boa Peep, By Hoot or by Crook, Big Beef at the OK Corral and The Badge and the Beautiful. In 1989 he directed the TV series The Pink Panther and Friendsand in 1994 he directed the series Les Tres Bessones (The Triplets).

He closed Pegbar Productions in 1993 and became an animation consultant for projects in Egypt, Turkey and France.

2005 GOLDEN AWARDS PORTRAITS