- Not to be confused with the 1969 film of the same name
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is an unreleased 1963 documentary produced by Lee Mendelson focusing on Charles Schulz and his comic strip, Peanuts. It was produced by Lee Mendelson with some animated vignettes by Bill Melendez with music by Vince Guaraldi.
History[]
Documentary filmmaker Lee Mendelson produced a film about baseball legend Willie Mays entitled A Man Named Mays. After producing a documentary about the world's greatest baseball player, Mendelson decided to do a film about the world's worst baseball player, Charlie Brown. He hired Bill Melendez, who already had experience animating the gang for the Ford ads, to do about two minutes of animated vignettes based on the comic strips. Vince Guraldi was hired to provide a score for the special which was subsequently released as Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
Although initially unreleased, portions of the documentary would later be reused in Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz.
A DVD of this documentary is currently only available at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and its online shop.
Cast[]
- Peter Robbins: Charlie Brown
- Christopher Shea: Linus van Pelt
- Karen Mendelson: Lucy van Pelt/Patty
- Tracy Stratford: Lucy van Pelt (singing)
- Chris Doran: Schroeder/Shermy
- Sally Dryer: Violet
- Ann Altieri: Frieda
- Geoffrey Ornstein: "Pig-Pen"
- Bill Melendez: Snoopy
(Sally Brown, "5", and 3 and 4 appear but have no lines.)
Soundtrack[]
- "Oh Good Grief" (vocal)
- "Oh Good Grief"
- "Blue Charlie Brown"
- "Oh Good Grief"
- "Oh Good Grief"
- "Oh Good Grief"
- "Linus and Lucy"
- "Happiness Is"
- "Happiness Is"
- "Charlie and the Kite" (similar to "Pebble Beach")
- "Schroeder"
- "Baseball Theme"
- "Oh Good Grief"