American animator and director (1929–2014) who co-founded Filmation and directed the first season of Star Trek: The Animated Series, sixteen of the show's twenty-two episodes.
Hal Sutherland (1929–2014) was an American animator who trained at Disney before co-founding Filmation with Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott, where he directed much of the studio's early output.
He directed all sixteen episodes of the first season of Star Trek: The Animated Series in 1973, including Beyond the Farthest Star, Yesteryear and More Tribbles, More Troubles. The six episodes of the second season were directed by Bill Reed.
Fans have long linked the show's frequent use of pink, seen for example on the Kzinti in The Slaver Weapon, to Sutherland's colour blindness. He later left animation to concentrate on painting.