The Complete Credits:
The Mortals Behind the Magic
When Santa Claus: The Movie™ premiered on November 27th, 1985,
many Salkind fans were extremely surprised not to see an incredibly impressive
main title sequence, as had been the case with Superman ®, Superman ® II,
Superman ® III and Supergirl ®. For probably the only time in the Salkind
filmography, all the production credits were withheld until the end of the film,
mostly to accommodate the presentation of Sheena Easton's delightful ballad,
Christmas All Over the World.
Even so, those who stayed with the film were rewarded properly with the full
credit list; and these are the names of the Mortals whose combined talents were
acknowledged before the whole world:
Directed by JEANNOT SZWARC
An ALEXANDER & ILYA SALKIND Production
Produced by ILYA SALKIND and PIERRE SPENGLER
Story by DAVID & LESLIE NEWMAN
Screenplay by DAVID NEWMAN
DAVID HUDDLESTON as Claus
JOHN LITHGOW as B.Z.
BURGESS MEREDITH as the Ancient One
JUDY CORNWELL as Anya
JEFFREY KRAMER as Dr. Eric Towzer
Introducing CHRISTIAN FITZPATRICK as Joe
and CARRIE KEI HEIM as Cornelia
and Starring DUDLEY MOORE as Patch
Associate Producer ROBERT SIMMONDS
Music by HENRY MANCINI
Performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, London
Song Lyrics by LESLIE BRICUSSE:
Every Christmas Eve/Santa's Theme (Giving)
Making Toys (March and Dance)
It's Christmas Again (Love Theme)
Patch, Natch!
Thank You, Santa!
Production Designer ANTHONY PRATT
Photographed by ARTHUR IBBETSON, B.S.C.
Flying & 2nd Unit Director DAVID LANE
Director of Visual & Miniature Effects DEREK MEDDINGS, B.S.C.
Edited by PETER HOLLYWOOD
Production Executive PAULINE COUTELENQ
Costume Designer BOB RINGWOOD
Casting by LYNN STALMASTER & ASSOCIATES
Optical Visual Effects Supervisor ROY FIELD, B.S.C.
Supervising Production Accountant JOHN TREHY
1st Assistant Director DEREK CRACKNELL
SHEENA EASTON Sings Christmas All Over the World
Produced by KEITH OLSEN for the Pogologo Corporation
Words & Music by BILL HOUSE and JOHN HOBBS
and
KAJA Performs Shouldn't Do That
Produced by KEN SCOTT
Lyrics by NICK BEGGS
Music by NICK BEGGS, STUART CROXFORD,NEAL ASKEW and STEVE ASKEW
Published by Infinite Music and Intersong Communications USA
Sheena Easton and Kaja appear courtesy EMI Records Limited
Production Supervisor VINCENT WINTER
Executive Assistant to the Salkinds MARIA GATTI de MONREAL
Additional Photography PAUL BEESON, B.S.C.
Director of Visual Effects Photography PAUL WILSON, B.S.C.
Coordinator of Choreography and Movement PAT GARRETT
Supervising Sound Editor DON SHARPE
Supervising Music Editor BOB HATHAWAY
Production Sound Mixer DAVID CROZIER
Supervising Art Director TIM HUTCHINSON
Art Directors
DON DOSSETT, JOHN HOESLI, MALCOLM STONE
Supervising Animatronic Designer JOHN COPPINGER
Animatronic Designers
RICHARD PADBURY, GUS RAMSDEN,
GRAHAM HIGH, DAVID HAYES
U.K. Casting by ANNE HENDERSON
Camera Operators
WALLY BYATT, S.O.C.; DAVID WORLEY;
TREVOR COOP; JEFF PAYNTER; JOHN MORGAN
Production Manager/North America and the Arctic CHRIS COLES
Models Photographed by MARK GARDINER
Script Supervisor PAMELA CARLTON
Makeup STUART FREEBORN, PAUL ENGELEN
Dudley Moore's Makeup PENNY SHAWYER
Hairdressers
COLIN JAMISON, JANET JAMISON, ELAINE BOWERBANK
Set Decorator STEPHANIE MacMILLAN
Illustrators JOHN ROSE, LUCY RICHARDSON
Construction Manager JOHN PATTERSON
Property Master EDDIE FOWLIE
Wardrobe Supervisor PATRICK WHEATLEY
Sound Editors ARCHIE LUDSKI, ROCKY PHELAN
Optical Effects Editor BRIAN MANN
1st Assistant Editors
LES HEALEY,
MARGARET THOMPSON, BEVERLEY LAMB
Production Assistants ELAINE BURT, SUSAN FORD
Personal Assistant to Alexander Salkind EYAL RIMMON
Personal Assistant to Ilya Salkind BARRY ISAACSON
Personal Assistant to Pierre Spengler TRUDY BALEN
Secretary to Jeannot Szwarc JANE DIXIE
Assistant Accountants CHRISTINE SAMWAYS, BOBBY JOHNSON
Accounting Secretary BETTY WILLIAMS
Supervisor, Publicity Operations GORDON ARNELL
Supervisor, Still Photography BOB PENN
Still Photographers DAVID STEEN, DOUGLAS LUKE
Aerial & Background Still Photography CERVIN ROBINSON
Front Projection Consultant ROY MOORES, B.S.C.
Music Recorded & Mixed at
CTS STUDIOS/THE MUSIC CENTRE,
Wembley, Middlesex
Music Recorded & Mixed by DICK LEWZEY,
Assisted by TIM PENNINGTON
Sound Re-recorded at Pinewood by GRAHAM V. HARTSTONE
End Title Design by SHELDON ELBOURNE for Camera Effects Ltd.
Cast of Characters:
DUDLEY MOORE.....Patch
JOHN LITHGOW.....B.Z.
DAVID HUDDLESTON.....Claus
JUDY CORNWELL.....Anya
BURGESS MEREDITH.....The Ancient One
JEFFREY KRAMER.....Dr. Eric Towzer
CHRISTIAN FITZPATRICK.....Joe
CARRIE KEI HEIM.....Cornelia
and as Santa's Elves:
JOHN BARRARD.....Dooley
ANTHONY O'DONNELL.....Puffy
MELVYN HAYES.....Goober
DON ESTELLE.....Groot
TIM STERN.....Boog
PETER O'FARRELL.....Honka
CHRISTOPHER RYAN.....Vout
DICKIE ARNOLD.....Goobler
Other Additional Players:
AIMEE DELAMAIN.....Granny (The Storyteller)
DOROTHEA PHILLIPS.....Miss Tucker
JOHN HALLAM.....Grizzard
JUDITH MORSE.....Ms. Abruzzi
JERRY HARTE.....Senate Subcommittee Chairman
PAUL ASPLAND.....1st Reporter
SALLY CRANFIELD.....2nd Reporter
MICHAEL DREW.....3rd Reporter
WALTER GOODMAN.....Street Corner Santa
JOHN CASSADY.....Wino
RONALD FERNEE.....1st Policeman
MICHAEL ROSS.....2nd Policeman
Optical Effects by OPTICAL FILM EFFECTS LTD.
with
Martin Body, Peter Chiang, Dick Dimbleby,
Doug Ferris, Peter Harman, Denis Bartlett
Special Effects by THE EFFECTS ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Martin Gutteridge, Graham Longhurst, Ted Grumbt, Bill Stoyle, Bob Harman
Animal Services Provided by ANIMAL ACTORS OF HOLLYWOOD
David MacMillan, Supervisor
with
Gary Brewer, Christy Miele, Don Reynolds,
Fess Reynolds, Helena Walsh, Maria Carter
Every Christmas Eve Sung by ALED JONES
Patch, Natch! Performed by THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Making Toys (March and Dance),
It's Christmas Again (Love Theme)and Thank You, Santa!
Performed by THE AMBROSIAN CHILDREN'S CHOIR
Lyrics by LESLIE BRICUSSE, Music by HENRY MANCINI
Choirs Arranged & Conducted by JOHN McCARTHY
Electrical Supervisors JOHN MAY, JACK THETFORD,
FRED WEBSTER
Construction Supervisor DAVID EDWARDS
with
Dennis Pack, Jack Wild, John Kilpatrick,
Barry Saunders, Don Taylor, Paul Clogg,
Graham Pearce, Ron Fallon, Les Silk,
Paul Mills, Fred Newbery, Peter Beard
Dressing Supervisor WALLY HILL
Original Soundtrack Album Available onEMI
America Records and XDR ® Audiocassettes,Manufactured & Marketed by Capitol Records,Division of Capitol Industries/Thorn EMI USA, Inc.
Soundtrack Album Consultants BURT BERMAN and BOB BUZIAK
Novelization and Storybooks Available from THE PUTNAM PUBLISHING GROUP
through its BERKLEY BOOKS and GROSSET & DUNLAP Divisions
Comic Book Adaptation Published by MARVEL ® COMICS
This story, all names, characters and
incidentsportrayed in this
production are fictitious.
No identification with actual
persons, places, buildings or productsis intended
or should be inferred.
This Motion Picture photoplay is protected
pursuant to the provisions
of the copyright and other laws
of the United States of Americaand all other countries
throughout the world.
Any unauthorized exhibition, distributionor reproduction of this film
or videotape or any part thereof (including soundtrack)
is an infringement of the relevant copyright,and will subject the infringer
to severe civil and criminal penalties.
The animals used in this film were in no way mistreated,
and all sequences in which they appeared were filmed under strict supervision
with the utmost concern for their handling.
This Motion Picture, Story and Screenplay:
© Copyright 1985 by St. Michael Finance Leasing Limited,
Robert Fleming Leasing Limited,
GGC Leasing Limited, Lunar Finance Limited
and Snowglen Securities Limited ---
Members of the Trustee Savings Bank Group, PLC.
SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE™ and ELFMADE™
and Title, Logos, Property, Characters,
Likenesses, Original Music Compositions
and Other Related Elements Owned by
and ™s and © Copyright 1985 by Calash Corporation, N.V.
All rights reserved.
Special thanks toFRANS J. AFMAN,
Senior Vice President/Entertainment
and our friends at CREDIT LYONNAIS BANK NEDERLAND N.V.
Financial Advisors STATEN BANK, N.V.
International Distribution Consultant OMAR KACZMARCZYK
PROCESSED BY RANK FILM LABORATORIES ®
Promotional ConsultantsSPRINGGREENE MARKETING ASSOCIATES, INC.,New York City
Cameras & Anamorphic Lenses by JOE DUNTON CAMERAS LTD.
Costumes made by BERMANS & NATHANS LTD.
Aerial Sequences Photographed Using the GYROSPHERE ® Camera System
RON GOODMAN, Camera Operator; MARC WOLFF, Helicopter Pilot
Auditing by NYMAN LIBSON PAUL & CO.
The Producers also wish to thank:
McDONALD'S ® CORPORATION
SYLVANIA DIVISION,NORTH AMERICAN PHILIPS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS GROUP
for supplying the video equipment
PUMA ® USA, INC.
for assisting with the Basketball Sequence
and designing Joe's sneakers
CONSOLIDATED BRANDS, INC.
for developing the Puce Pop
THE TIME INC. MAGAZINE COMPANY
for permission to use the Time Magazine ®
title, property, logos & format
THE PEOPLE AND OFFICIALS OF GREENLAND
and THE STAFF OF GREENLANDAIR
for their goodwill and assistance
during the filming of the Arctic Sequences
and
THE REINDEER COMPANY LIMITED, AVIEMORE (SCOTLAND)
for their cooperation.
An ALEXANDER SALKIND Presentation
Made by SANTA CLAUS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
in Association with CANTHARUS PRODUCTIONS, N.V.
at THE RANK ORGANISATION'S PINEWOOD STUDIOS ®,
Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England
DISTRIBUTED BY TRISTAR ® PICTURES
A Sony Company
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