Meet the Daughter of Jules Bass

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The late Jules Bass is an American filmmaker, lyricist, producer, and author. He was born in Philadelphia on January 19th, 1953. Sid Richardson Bass and Anne Hendrickson Bass were his parents. When he was a teenager, he developed scarlet fever and was at grave risk of dying. He attended New York University before starting his career at a marketing company.

He was employed by a New York advertising agency until 1960, when he and his buddy Arthur Rankin Jr. co-founded Videocraft International, subsequently known as Rankin/Bass Productions, a film production company. He joined ASCAP in 1963, working at their music company and at Rankin/Bass as a composition partnership, principally with Maury Laws, with Edward Thomas and James Polack. He contracted scarlet fever when he was a teenager and came dangerously close to passing away. Before working for a marketing firm, he attended New York University.

Jules Bass died on the 25th October 2022 at an assisted living facility in Rye, New York according to his PR Rep. Jennifer Fisherman Ruff.  He died at 87 as a result of old age.