Animation Promoter Prescott Wright Passes Away at 71
Prescott Wright, a founder of the ASIFA-San Francisco Chapter, producer of the Tournee Of Animation for many years and a founder of the Ottawa Animation Festival passed away on Dec. 28, 2006, at a hospital in Albuquerque at the age of 71, reports Karl Cohen, animation professor/historian and president of ASIFA-SF.
He had been in slow decline for several years with Picks Disease, a form of dementia related to Alzheimers.