found: An Egg scramble [MP] 1949:credits (animation, J.C. Melendez)
found: A Charlie Brown Christmas [VR] c1965:title frames (produced and directed by Bill Melendez)
found: Schulz, C.M. A Charlie Brown Christmas, c2000:t.p. (Bill Melendez) p. 51 (b. 1916, Hermosillo, Mexico)
found: Internet movie database, Sept. 5, 2003(Bill Melendez; b. 15 Nov. 1916, Hermosillo, Mexico; also known as J.C. Melendez, C. Melendez; producer, writer, director, actor, composer)
found: New York times WWW site, Sept. 5, 2008(Bill Melendez; b. José Cuauhtémoc Melendez, Nov. 15, 1916, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; d. Tuesday [Sept. 2, 2008], Santa Monica, Calif., aged 91; Emmy-winning animator who brought Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang to blithe, blockheaded life on television and in films, and who helped keep them alive after the death of their creator, Charles M. Schulz)