Gordon Bressack

Gordon Bressack (May 28, 1951 to August 30, 2019) was an American television writer best known for his work in animation.¹ Across a career that stretched from the early 1980s into the 2010s, he wrote for a long run of cartoons and earned multiple Daytime Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild of America honor. For the Ghostbusters franchise, he wrote a single episode of The Real Ghostbusters.²

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Bressack wrote the Season 6 episode Very Beast Friends, which first aired on December 8, 1990.³ In it, the Ghostbusters take a cruise on Ray's new sailboat and are pulled into a fight between the immortal demons Kishar and Anshar, who possess Peter and Ray to battle in their place.

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Awards and recognition

Bressack's animation work brought several major awards and nominations:

Humanitas Prize, 1989, nominated in the Children's Animation category for "The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy" (1988).
Daytime Emmy, 1996, won for Outstanding Achievement in Animation for "Animaniacs" (1993).
Writers Guild of America, 1998, won the Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award.
Daytime Emmy, 1998, nominated for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for "Animaniacs" (1993).
Daytime Emmy, 1999, nominated for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for "Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain" (1998).
Daytime Emmy, 2000, won for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for "Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain" (1998).
Daytime Emmy, 2000, won for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program for "Pinky and the Brain" (1995).
National Film Challenge, 2011, won Best Use of Line (Pacific) for "Never Gonna Give You Up" (2011).
Underground Monster Carnival, 2012, won Best of Show for "My Pure Joy" (2011).

Other work

Outside the Ghostbusters franchise, Bressack wrote for a wide range of animated series, including:

WordGirl, four episodes (2011)
Pinky and the Brain, seventeen episodes (1995 to 1998)
Animaniacs, seven episodes (1993 to 1997)
The Smurfs, eleven episodes (1983 to 1989)
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, one episode (1985)

References

Variety, "'Pinky and the Brain' Writer Gordon Bressack Dies at 68" (August 2019): https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/gordon-bressack-dead-dies-pinky-and-the-brain-1203320010/ ↩
Gordon Bressack on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107780/ ↩
Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report, "Very Beast Friends." Production number 140-508. ↩

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Awards and recognition

Other work

References

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