Amedee J. Van Beuren, the producer of Frank Buck's first three films, was born in New York, son of Alfred Van Beuren, head of the Van Beuren advertising firm, which became a part of the General Outdoor Advertising Company. Amedee was educated at public and private schools and a business college.

One of Amedee Van Beuren's earliest and most successful productions was the series of cartoons entitled "Aesop's Fables."  Later movies from the Van Beuren studio included the Frank Buck features "Bring 'Em Back Alive," "Wild Cargo" and "Fang and Claw," of which the first scored a tremendous success and set a vogue in animal pictures. Van Beuren's company also issued more than two hundred animated shorts.

Van Beuren was president of the Colorado Springs Theatre Corporation and the Kernab Corporation. In July 1938, he suffered a stroke but had gradually recovered, although confined to his home. He died of a heart attack, age 58, November 12, 1938, at his country home, Dreamwold, in Carmel, New York.  A brother and two sisters survived him.

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