Guy Moon, who composed music for animated TV series including Nickelodeon’s The Fairly OddParents, died as a result of a traffic collision in Los Angeles on Jan. 8. He was 63.
Moon’s family announced his death in a Facebook post on Jan. 10. Moon was hit by a vehicle while riding his Vespa scooter in the Wilmington neighborhood of L.A. He died of traumatic injuries at the scene.
Moon was best known for scoring The Fairly OddParents, an animated series that tracked the adventures of Timmy Turner. Moon was the show’s composer from 2001 to 2017 and scored more than 150 episodes, according to IMDb.
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Moon was nominated for four Primetime Emmys for outstanding music and lyrics from 2002 to 2004 for songs he composed for the show. He collaborated on all four songs with lyricists Butch Hartman and Steve Marmel. They were joined on one of them by lyricist Scott Fellows.
Moon won three consecutive BMI Cable Awards at the BMI Film & TV Awards from 2002 to 2004 for his work on The Fairly OddParents (shared with Hartman and Ron Jones). He also won an Annie Award for music in a television production in 2007 for his work on the show.
Moon was raised in Fort Atkinson, Wis., and graduated from the University of Arizona School of Music. Moon, who was inspired by the music of Chick Corea, began his career in the 1980s. Moon also worked on The Fairly OddParents creator Hartman’s other series Danny Phantom and T.U.F.F. Puppy.
His other credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), A Very Brady Sequel (1996), Come on Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (1999) and A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011). He was last credited in 2025 as a composer for The Artist, a series from streaming service the Network.
Moon is survived by his wife, Jennifer Moon; his three adult children — daughters Chelsea and Savannah and son Dusty; his parents; two older sisters and seven grandchildren, with an eighth on the way.
The family said in their Facebook post that they plan to celebrate Moon’s life at a memorial in Los Angeles on Feb. 7, which would have been the composer’s 64th birthday. That remembrance will be followed by another in Wisconsin at a later date.
