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The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus is a american film of genre Animation directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. released in USA on 17 december 1985 with J. D. Roth
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)
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Add to a movie listThe Life & Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1985 Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin/Bass. It is based on The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a 1902 children's book by L. Frank Baum. This was Rankin/Bass's final stop motion animated special produced. Future specials and series's would be traditional animated from this point on.
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J. D. Roth
(Young Claus (voice))
Earl Hammond
(Santa Claus (voice))
Alfred Drake
(The Great Ak (voice))
Larry Kenney
(Commander of the Wind Demons (voice))
Bob McFadden
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