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name: "Al Brodax"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/al-brodax"
roles: ["Producer","Screenwriter"]
born: "14 February 1926"
died: "24 November 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T06:17:38.236827+00:00"
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# Al Brodax

Producer and screenwriter. Born 14 February 1926 in Brooklyn, New York,  USA. Died 24 November 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Screenwriter
- **Born:** 14 February 1926, Brooklyn, New York,  USA
- **Died:** 24 November 2016
- **Also known as:** Albert Philip Brodax
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4703612, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110771/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71254

## Biography

Al Brodax, also credited as Albert Philip Brodax, was an American film and television producer. He served as producer and co-screenwriter on the animated feature *Yellow Submarine* (1968).

Brodax headed the motion picture and television division of King Features Syndicate from 1960. In this role he produced hundreds of episodes of the *Popeye the Sailor* animated series and created the *The Beatles* animated television series, which ran on ABC from 1965 to 1969. He later worked as a freelance producer and animation supervisor on ABC children's programmes including *Make a Wish* (1971–76) and *Animals, Animals, Animals* (1976–81).

Brodax published the memoir *Up Periscope Yellow: The Making of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine* in 2004. He died on 24 November 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Yellow Submarine* (1968), Fi1m 74, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/yellow-submarine.md)

## Also known for

- *Popeye the Sailor* (1960), Producer, Executive Producer

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