Al Kilgore
Alfred R. Kilgore, who signed his work Al Kilgore, was an American artist who worked as a cartoonist and filmmaker.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Kilgore attended Andrew Jackson High School where he played basketball with a young Bob Cousy. He also met Dolores Preusch at this time, and the couple married in 1958. During World War II, he served in the Fifth Air Force. After the war, he entered into art studies, graduating from the Art Career School in 1951.
Comic strips and comic books
He was an artist on the The [Rocky and Bullwinkle Show|Bullwinkle] comic strip for the Bell-McClure Syndicate between 1962 and 1967. In 1969, he did a syndicated puzzle feature, TV Star Screen.Films
He appeared as an actor in Louis McMahon's serial parody Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates, along with fellow film historians and authors Alan G. Barbour and William K. Everson. This four-part, semi-professional production paid homage to Republic Pictures and its adventure serials, while kidding the vintage film subculture of the 1960s. The plot involved a masked villain named The Master Duper, one of three members of a Film Commission who attempts to steal the only known prints of priceless antique films, and the heroic Captain Celluloid, who wears a costume reminiscent of that of the Black Commando in the Columbia serial The Secret Code and is determined to uncover him.Kilgore produced and scripted the American dub of the Japanese fantasy film The World of Hans Christian Andersen which he co-directed with Chuck McCann. The film was dubbed for American audiences by Hal Roach, who hired McCann and Kilgore to assist him. This was one of Roach's last efforts before his studio closed down.