Margaret Nichols

Margaret Nichols (1930–2012) was an American animator and director of cartoons for television. She worked for several studios, including Hanna-Barbera. She was also an exec­u­tive board mem­ber of The Ani­ma­tion Guild from 1980 to 1985.
== Biography ==
From 1955 until 1993, Nichols worked for Warner Bros., Dis­ney, UPA, Fleis­cher, Snow­ball, Patin, TV Spots, Cre­ston, Eagle, Hanna-Barbera, Mar­vel, Uni­ver­sal and Graz Entertainment.
She was also known as Mar­garet Flo­res Nichols and Mar­garet Grewell.
Nichols directed the TV series Trans­form­ers (1985–86); The Glo Friends, Potato Head Kids, InHu­manoids and Moon Dream­ers (all 1986); My Little Pony ‘n Friends (1986–87), and Frag­gle Rock (1987).
She served as an animation director for the series Mup­pet Babies (1985–88), Defenders of the Earth (1986), Space­cats and Bucky O’Hare and the Toad Wars! (both 1991), Tom & Jerry Kids Show and The Addams Family (both 1992), The Pirates of Dark Water (1992–93), and Droopy, Master Detective (1993). In addition, she was animation director of the TV movies Solar­man (1986), Pryde of the X-Men (1989) and I Yabba-Dabba-Do! (1993), along with the 1986 theatrical films Trans­form­ers: The Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie and the 1987 video G.I. Joe: The Movie.
As an ani­ma­tor, Nichols worked on the series The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971); The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972); Jeannie and Speed Buggy (both 1973); These Are the Days and Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (both 1974); The Tom & Jerry Show (1975); The Mumbly Car­toon Show and The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour (both 1976); The All-New Superfriends Hour and CB Bears (both 1977); Scooby’s All Star Laff-a-Lympics (1977–78); Jana of the Jungle, Challenge of the Superfriends and Dynomutt Dog Wonder (all 1978); The Godzilla Power Hour (1978–79); The World's Greatest Superfriends, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and Casper and the Angels (all 1979;) Trollkins and The Kwicky Koala Show (both 1981); Smurfs (1981–84); Jokebook, Shirt Tales and Pac-Man (all 1982), and The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show and The Char­lie Brown and Snoopy Show (both 1983).
Also, Nichols was an animator on the 1974 ABC After­school Spe­cial "Cyrano", along with the ABC Week­end Spe­cials "The Puppy Saves the Circus" (1981), "Miss Switch to the Res­cue" and "Bun­nic­ula, the Vam­pire Rab­bit" (both 1982). She ani­mated the TV shorts and TV movies Clerow Wilson’s Great Escape (1974), The White Seal (1975), A Flintstone Christmas (1977), Christmas Comes to Pacland (1982), Is This Good­bye, Char­lie Brown? (1983) and It’s Flashbeagle, Char­lie Brown (1984), in addi­tion to the 1987 the­atri­cal movie Rock Odyssey.
A key assis­tant ani­ma­tor on the 1973 movie Charlotte's Web, Nichols was an assis­tant ani­ma­tor on Who Framed Roger Rab­bit and Disney’s Oliver & Com­pany (both 1988). She was a char­ac­ter ani­ma­tor on the 1982 the­atri­cal film Heidi's Song and a guest ani­ma­tor on Chuck Jones’ 1975 TV movie Yan­kee Doo­dle Cricket.
Nichols was a sequence direc­tor on the TV series Robotix (1985), G.I. Joe (1985–86), Jem (1985–88), Trans­form­ers (1986–87) and The Lit­tle Wiz­ards (1987), as well as the 1985 video Big­foot and the Mus­cle Machines and TV movie The GLO Friends Save Christmas.
Her first screen credit was as a lay­out artist for the 1970 TV movie Uncle Sam Magoo. Nichols was a back­ground and lay­out artist for the 1971 musi­cal film Shin­bone Alley. 
At Dis­ney, Nichols was a key clean-up artist for the movie The Black Caul­dron (1985), and a char­ac­ter key for The Lit­tle Mer­maid (1989) and The Res­cuers Down Under (1990). She was a tim­ing direc­tor and sheet timer for X-Men (1992–94) and a tim­ing direc­tor for the 1994 TV series The Tick.
== External Links ==
* Margaret Nichols at the Internet Movie Database
 
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