Don Arioli

Don Arioli (1936-2005) was an animator, writer, and voice actor who spent most of his career in Canada. He was a consultant/participant in the Children's Television Workshop seminars that led to Sesame Street. ERIC Database. The First Year of Sesame Street: A History and Overview. He did segments for Sesame Street (as well as The Electric Company) and sometimes provided voice-overs, as in the Sign Sounds cartoons. He also lent his voice to cartoons by other filmmakers, such as the straight man in Janet Perlman's insert about an elephant asking directions. 
While born in Rochester, New York, Arioli established himself as a filmmaker in Canada and often made shorts for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He directed a portion of the NFB's Man: The Polluter (with Chuck Jones also contributing). He did story or storyboards for shorts directed by others and later wrote for a number of children's series (both live-action and animated) including Shining Time Station, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, A Bunch of Munsch, and The Wiggles. He worked on story for the later Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes Chariots of Fur and Another Froggy Evening.
==Sources==
==External links==
* IMDb
* Fresh Air interview with Susie Arioli. August 8, 2012
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Category:Animators
Category:Animated Voice Actors