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Events with high posterior probability

Manny Gould	In 1964, Gould was animating on the Linus The Lionhearted television cartoons for Ed Graham Productions, then the following year began working as an animator at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises on the Pink Panther and Tijuana Toads shorts and several series for television.
Joe Lizura	In 2011, he founded Allowance Media Group to develop six new television pilots into production.
Ji?? Voskovec	When Honzl, who had directed their productions, left in 1929, Voskovec and Werich took control of the theatre and changed its name to the Liberated Theatre of Voskovec and Werich, assuming all responsibility for direction, writing, librettos, and other artistic decisions.
Marshall Hays	In 2004, Hays Internet Marketing stopped taking on new clients so that Marshall could serve as the Vice President of American Television Distribution, which produces and distributes television shows both in the United States and internationally.
John Heyman	Island World was sold to Polygram at the end of 1994, but Heyman retained control of the London TV production company World Productions which is still an active provider of British TV productions.
Bob Ezrin	As of 2012, Ezrin continues to work as a record producer, mix engineer, arranger and songwriter, in addition to being involved with a variety of other projects in digital media, live production, film, television, and theatrical production.
Charlie Chaplin	Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, and worried about rumours of a possible merger between the company and Famous Players-Lasky, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company -- United Artists, established in January 1919.
Bill Schultz (producer)	In 1986 Schultz moved from Santa Barbara (TV series) Production Staff to help with the management of Marvel Productions.
A. A. Milne	After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to Stephen Slesinger, whose widow sold the rights after Slesinger's death to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.
Antony Root	In 1999 he transferred to Los Angeles and assumed the additional role of SVP, Movies and Miniseries at Granada Entertainment USA where his credits as executive producer included The Great Gatsby (A&E) and Princess of Thieves (ABC).
Kim Williams (media executive)	In 1995, shortly after the last-minute failure of a deal for the ABC to provide two news channels to Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel, which Williams had spearheaded on behalf of the ABC, he left the ABC to accept Murdoch's invitation to head Fox Studios.
Michael Isaacson	After he moved to Los Angeles in 1976 to compose and arrange for television and film, he was commissioned by several local congregations to produce the synagogue works,' Sim Shalom' from the Regeneration album, and' Bayom Hahu' from the Nishmat Chayim Shabbat service.
Peter Raymont	In 1978, Raymont moved to Toronto and established his independent film and television production company, Investigative Productions now operating as White Pine Pictures.
Robert J. Flaherty	After Tabu, Flaherty was considered finished in Hollywood, and Frances Flaherty contacted John Grierson of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit in London, who assigned Flaherty to the documentary Industrial Britain (1931).
Slash Coleman	In 2000, he formed the production company About Vision Entertainment, with Stash Tea CEO Tom Lisicki, which produced over a dozen multidisciplinary products including a line of drinking teas and educational products for the Charkas.
Virgil Widrich	A large number of multimedia projects for companies followed (in 2001 he founded the company, checkpointmedia AG, and is its CEO) and he continued producing films with his company Virgil Widrich Film - und Multimediaproduktionen G. m. b. H. Together with other filmmakers he also co-founded the production company Amour Fou Film in 2001, focusing on arthouse movies from young directors.
Andrew Paskoff	In late 2008, Andrew left MTV to pursue a new opportunity as Director of Production for Sony Pictures Television, overseeing global development and production for SPT Networks, which has over 60 global channels, 125 feeds, 25 languages, in over 850 million homes worldwide.
Isao Takahata	In Jarinko Chie, じゃりん子チエ （ meaning Chie the Brat) in 1981, Yasuo Otsuka who belonged to Tokyo Movie Shinsha/Telecom Animation Film Co., Ltd. offered Miyazaki, a Telecom colleague, to turn this comic into an animated cartoon, but he refused.
Ivy Supersonic	She originated the Ivy Supersonic cartoon at Universal Music Group, but bought it back in 2002, when Universal had a high staff turn over.
Anatoly Fradis	Since 1987, Mr. Fradis and his company has represented Mosfilm Studios, Russia, in the US and Canada, serving as a liaison between Mosfilm and several production companies in America and Europe, arranging co-productions and service deals including Back in the USSR for 20th Century Fox / Largo Entertainment and The Inner Circle for Columbia Pictures.
Louis J. Gasnier	Grand National swiftly flopped, and was liquidated in 1939 ; its studios were taken over by Producers Releasing Corporation ; Gasnier did not elect to stay with PRC, but he did remain with Hirliman, finishing out his directorial career with a couple of features at Monogram Pictures and then retiring upon reaching the age of 65.
Hal Geer	Following his employment at Disney, Geer worked at a number of independent production companies before being brought back to Warner Bros. by producer William L. Hendricks in 1967, beginning a twenty-year association with Looney Tunes.
Shohei Imamura	To more freely explore themes without studio interference, he established his own production company, Imamura Productions, in 1965.
Pat Mitchell	In 1992, Mitchell became an executive in charge of original productions for Ted Turner's cable networks.
Carl Stalling	In 1936, when Leon Schlesinger -- under contract to produce animated shorts for Warner Bros. -- hired Iwerks, Stalling went with him to become a full-time cartoon music composer, with full access to the expansive Warner Bros. catalog and musicians.
Darrell Van Citters	In July 1992, Van Citters left Warner Bros. to strike out on his own, forming Renegade Animation along with ex-Warners' alumna Ashley Postelwaite.
Andy Frain	His company also produced the animation for Brush Head a series of shorts made for The Disney Channel & Dandy Productions and which won The BAFTA Animation Award in 2004.
Sagar Mitchell	The success of their early films encouraged Mitchell to give up his shop and in September 1901 Mitchell and Kenyon moved into premises in Clayton Street, Blackburn, to concentrate on film production.
Rob Moore (executive)	In 2000, Moore joined American production company Revolution Studios, supervising business affairs, finance, production and operations.
Noli de Castro	In January 1999 he became overall head of production of'' TV Patrol'' and vice president of dzMM.
Colin Callender	In April of 1999, Callender was promoted to president of HBO Original Movies, later renamed HBO Films.
Larry Wilcox	Erik's manager said he was trying to establish a new and separate identity from CHiPS In 1982, Wilcox left CHiPs and formed his own production company, Wilcox Productions, which produced the award winning TV series for HBO The Ray Bradbury Theater for five years.
Walt Disney	He would return to Disney in 1940 and go on to pioneer a number of film processes and specialized animation technologies in the studio's research and development department.
Walt Disney	Fleischer, considered Disney's main rival in the 1930s, was also the father of Richard Fleischer, whom Disney would later hire to direct his 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Chris Albrecht	Before becoming Chairman in 2002, he spent seven years as president of HBO Original Programming, where he directed day-to-day operations of West and East Coast original programming for HBO, Cinemax and HBO Independent Productions and also oversaw HBO Sports and HBO Film Programming.
S. Roy Luby	In 1918 he became an associate producer of the Out of the Inkwell cartoons for Max Fleischer and Mutt and Jeff cartoons for Bud Fisher.
Michael Carrington (television executive)	In 2004 he joined the BBC as Head of Animation & Acquisitions, where he gained broadcast rights over Lunar Jim, The Koala Brothers and LazyTown.
Julian Ritter	Ritter graduated Art Center School in 1932 and found work at Los Angeles's film studios painting portraits for movie sets and doing other set design for Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount and Universal.
Jack Kirby	He remained until late 1939, when he began working for the movie animation company Fleischer Studios as an inbetweener (an artist who fills in the action between major-movement frames) on Popeye cartoons.''
Roy Huggins	Huggins moved to television in April 1955, when Warner Brothers hired him as a producer.
James Kenyon (cinematographer)	The success of their early films encouraged Mitchell to give up his shop and in September 1901 Mitchell and Kenyon moved into the premises in Clayton Street, Blackburn, to concentrate on film production.
Daws Butler	In 1957, when MGM closed down their animation division, producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera quickly formed their own company, and Daws Butler and Don Messick were on-hand to provide voices.
Dirk Dirksen	When the On Broadway was closed in 1984, Dirksen went into video production with his firm, Dirksen-Malloy Productions, which he co-owned with his domestic partner Damon Malloy.
Daniel Battsek	In 1998, he was promoted to senior vice president, BVI (UK) Limited where he oversaw approximately 35 films per year from the Disney, Touchstone and Miramax labels.
Shyam Benegal	Unlike most New Cinema filmmakers, Benegal has had private backers for many of his films and institutional backing for a few, including Manthan (National Dairy Development Board), and Susman (1987) (Handloom Co-operatives).
L. Frank Baum	In 1914, having moved to Hollywood years earlier, Baum started his own film production company, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, which came as an outgrowth of the Uplifters.
Kevin Kallaugher	In 2004 Kallaugher teamed up with animator Gary Leib at Twinkle studio to create flash animation video for ABC's Nightline and CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi	He was born in Madrid on March 22, 1927 and began working in the production firm Emisora Films as an assistant manager, film editor, scriptwriter, lead producer, and finally director.
Manny Gould	Gould, along with Art Davis, Lou Lilly and Frank Tashlin, arrived at the Warner Brothers cartoon studio in 1943 where he worked in the Bob Clampett unit and remained in the unit after Clampett left and Robert McKimson was chosen to direct.
Laura Ruth Walker	She joined the Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) in 1987, where for eight years she worked on programming and development initiatives, and led the organization's efforts to establish a cable television channel (now Noggin).
Scott Bradley	This arrangement lasted until MGM closed its cartoon department in 1957, after which Bradley retired.
Dennis Stock	In 1968, Stock left Magnum to start his own film company, Visual Objectives Inc., and made several documentaries, but he returned to the agency a year later, as vice president for new media and film.
Hayden Christensen	On May 20, 2013, during the Cannes Film Festival the Russian company Enjoy Movies announced the creation of Glacier Films - an alliance company with Hayden Christensen and his brother Tove Christensen.
Sam Mendes	In 2003, Mendes established Neal Street Productions, a film, television and theatre production company he would use to finance much of his later work.
Joseph E. Levine	Embassy Pictures is born In 1956, the year he brought Walk Into Paradise to the United States under the title Walk Into Hell, Levine founded Embassy Pictures Corporation, an independent studio and distributor which became responsible for such films as Godzilla, King Of The Monsters !
Fred Spencer	Spencer joined Walt Disney Productions in 1931 and first worked on several early Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Alexander Korda	From 1930, Korda became a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.
P. Adinarayana Rao	He started a production house' Anjali Pictures' in 1951, using the name of his wife after parting ways with Aswini Pictures.
Adrian (costume designer)	Adrian left MGM in 1941 to set up his own independent fashion house, though he still worked closely with Hollywood.
Yoichi Wada	In 2000, he decided to join'' a company with a' theme''', and, thinking that one of the themes of the 21st century was'' creating society'', chose the video game company Square.
Roger Allers	In 1978, he relocated to Los Angeles with Lisberger to work on a feature project called Animalympics, providing story work, character design and animation for the film.
Chris Roycroft-Davis	Roycroft-Davis briefly left The Sun in 1989 when Sky Television was launched by The Suns parent company, and he worked under Rupert Murdoch for almost two years in charge of promoting the new network in Press, TV and radio commercials.
John Levene	In 1977, following his final appearance on Doctor Who, Levene gave up acting as a career to set up his own audio visual company, Genesis Communications, and has directed well over 45 audio visuals and live events for various clients including the Ford Motor Company, British Airways, KFC, Amway and Revlon.
Barry Josephson	In 1991, Josephson was the Vice President of Production for Columbia Pictures and remained at the studio for six years where he served last as President of Production.
Thomas Schlamme	After serving in several low level positions for production companies, he founded his own company, Schlamme Productions, in 1980.
Chuck Jones	Jones became a director (or'' supervisor'', the original title for an animation director in the studio) himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio.
Michael Skolnik	In 2007, Skolnik signed a development deal with Universal Studios and was working on a film for Imagine, produced by Brian Grazer, about the last four days of President Jean-Betrande Aristide's time in Haiti.
Snuff Garrett	In 1976, when home video was in its infancy, Garrett bought cassette rights to the old RKO and Republic films for what United Press International termed'' a pittance.''
William Wadsworth Hodkinson	He became a leading West Coast film distributor in the early days of motion pictures and in 1914 he founded and became president of the first nation-wide film distributor, Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Will Wyatt	In USA published as The Secret of the Sierra Madre (Doubleday) By 1978 he had was Assistant Head of the Presentation Department, whose output included The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Hollywood Greats and Barry Norman's Film... programme.
Walt Disney	In 1936, Iwerks shut down his studio in order to work on various projects dealing with animation technology.
S. Roy Luby	Beginning in 1949 Luby worked as a supervising editor and associate producer for several Christian film companies such as Family Films, Inc.
George Arliss	Working closely with Warners' production chief, Darryl F. Zanuck, Arliss left the studio when Zanuck resigned in April 1933.
Irvin Shapiro	In 1932, he set up World Pictures (later renamed to Films Around The World) a film distribution company which also worked on the development of specialist cinemas.
Colin Callender	In 1987, Callender was made the executive producer for HBO Showcase, HBO's newly formed East coast film production unit.
Art Stevens	Stevens retired in 1983 after forty-three years at the Disney animation studio.
Richard Bradley (film producer)	In 2008 he met up with South Australian producer Wayne Groom and, with financial investment from the South Australian Film Corporation, they brought back Brothers at War with director Peter Andrikidis, Paramount Pictures and Arclight Films on board.
Klaus Badelt	In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Badelt to work at Media Ventures in Santa Monica, California, his studio co-owned by Jay Rifkin.
Nunnally Johnson	He soon began producing films as well and co-founded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz.
Erkki Karu	Karu held the title of head director in his new company, but during his short stay there could only direct two films, Syntipukki and Roinilan talossa, both in 1935, neither of which was very successful.
William Meiklejohn	In 1939 he sold his agency to the Music Corporation of America (MCA) as it opened in Hollywood and joined them as vice-president in charge of setting up their motion picture division.
Frances-Anne Solomon	Returning to Canada in 2000, she continued to develop and produce television, feature films and new media projects.
Bill Mechanic	During his tenure at Fox, the company significantly expanded its production capacity by creating four film divisions-Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Fox Family Films.
Nasdijj	Interested in The Boy for its portrayal of fatherhood, in 2004 James Dowaliby, a former vice president for Paramount International Television Group, acquired the film rights from Nasdijj.
Greg D'Angelo	D'Angelo ran a recording studio in Los Angeles for a while before becoming involved in the film world, working as a producer on the children's movie Pumpkin Hill in 1997.
Bill Camfield	In 1954, Camfield went to work for the newly created independent television station in Fort Worth, KFJZ-TV Channel 11 (now KTVT), writing advertising copy, creating original programming, and often acting in the programs and commercials he created.
Runme Shaw	Runme Shaw arrived in Singapore in 1923 to test the market for the Shaw brothers' films.
William Garwood	On April 30, 1913, the Thanhouser company relocated from Los Angeles to New York, but Garwood remained behind in the same studio in Los Angeles, which was now acquired by Majestic, and became, with Francelia Billington and Fred Mace, one of three featured stars in the'' New Majestic'' films.
Steven S. Levitan	In 1989 Levitan decided to pursue film and television production full-time and joined Sunrise Films, at the time one of the country's most successful production companies, becoming its president.
Dez Skinn	Leaving Marvel in 1980 for his own company, the London West End Studio System, Skinn worked primarily in advertising design for both the film and fashion industry.
Mary Pickford	Pickford and Fairbanks produced and shot their films after 1920 at the jointly owned Pickford-Fairbanks studio on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Steve Purcell	Purcell collaborated with Nelvana to create a Sam & Max television series in 1997, and briefly worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic after leaving LucasArts.
Michael Balcon	Still, he was proud to be associated with the British New Wave ; the last film on which he worked as executive producer was Tom Jones (1963), after which he continued to encourage young directors, serving as chairman of the British Film Institute production board and funding low-budget experimental work.
Dale Pollock	He joined A&M Films a year later as vice president in charge of production, and was named president in 1990, producing such films as A Midnight Clear, Blaze, and Mrs. Winterbourne.
Lucy Fisher	In 1995, Fisher joined Sony and moved to Columbia TriStar where she worked as Vice Chairman During Fisher ¹ s tenure as Vice Chairman at Sony, the studio broke all-time industry records for biggest domestic and worldwide grosses with films she supervised, which included Men in Black, My Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One, Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets, and Stuart Little.
Linwood G. Dunn	From 1965, Dunn became one of four optical houses that supplied visual effects for the company's (later Paramount) Star Trek TV series.
Martina Cole	In 2009 she established her own production entity,'' 2Queens TV'' to explore new avenues in broadcasting for her and her interests.
Alfred Hitchcock	In 1920, he received a full-time position at Islington Studios with its American owner, Famous Players-Lasky, and their British successor, Gainsborough Pictures, designing the titles for silent movies.
Yash Chopra	Chopra founded and was chairman of the motion picture production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, which ranks as India's biggest production company as of 2006, as well as Yash Raj Studios.
Joseph Barbera	Lured by a substantial salary increase, Barbera left Terrytoons and New York for the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) cartoon unit in California in 1937.