Simple Gifts

Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew

Directed by

R.O. Blechman
Phillip Schopper
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")

Writing Credits

R.O. Blechman
(segment) (segment "No Room at the Inn")
Fontaine Fox
(comic strip "Toonerville Trolley") (segment "Lost and Found")
Moss Hart
(book) (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Edward Hulse
(letter) (segment "December 25, 1914") (as Sir Edward Hulse)
Theodore Roosevelt
(diary) (segment "My Christmas") (as Teddy Roosevelt)
Maurice Sendak
(segment) (segment "Prologue")
Virginia Woolf
(novel) (segment "The Great Frost")

Cast

Colleen Dewhurst
Self - Host
Hermione Gingold
Narrator (segment "The Great Frost")
José Ferrer
Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Tony Allon
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Charles Bender
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Dwight Marfield
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Peter Rogan
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Ellen Sandler
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Dean Wareham
Narrator (segment "My Christmas")
David Jones
Narrator (segment "December 25th, 1914")
Paul Dooley
(segment "Lost & Found")
Claudette Sutherland
(segment "Lost & Found")

Produced by

R.O. Blechman
producer

Music by

Arnold Black

Editing by

Joe Canestro
(as Joseph Canestro)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Steven Parton
assistant director (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Michael Sporn
assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

R.O. Blechman
art (segment "No Room at the Inn")
Seymour Chwast
art (segment "The Great Frost")
James McMullan
art (segment "December 25th, 1914")
Chas. B. Slackman
art (segment "My Christmas")

Animation Department

Sara Calogero
ink and paint supervisor
Tissa David
animator (segment "The Great Frost") / layout artist (segment "The Great Frost")
Jeffrey Gatrall
layout artist (segment "December 25th, 1914")
Ida Greenberg
ink and paint supervisor
Lu Guarnier
additional animator (segment "No Room at the Inn")
Bill Littlejohn
animator (segment "Lost & Found") (as William Littlejohn)
Ed Smith
additional animator (segment "The Great Frost") / animator (segments "Prologue", "No Room at the Inn")

Music Department

Christoph Blumrich
performer: carols (segment "December 25th, 1914")
William Bolcom
music performer (segment "Lost & Found")
Bryan Brooks
performer: carols (segment "December 25th, 1914")
Calliope
music performed by (segment "The Great Frost")
Bruce Feiffer
performer: carols (segment "December 25th, 1914")
David Jones
performer: carols (segment "December 25th, 1914")
Philip Levin
guest artist (segment "The Great Frost")
Charles O'Haggerty
performer: carols (segment "December 25th, 1914")
Harriet Wingreen
guest artist (segment "The Great Frost")

Additional Crew

Meryle Evans
photo researcher (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Richard Mantel
titles
Michael Sporn
production coordinator

Thanks

Linda Beaty
special thanks (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Karen Fredericks
special thanks (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
J. Hoberman
special thanks (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (as James Hoberman)
Barbara Samuels
special thanks (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
James Szalapski
special thanks (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Walter Thomson
special thanks (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
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