Paul Fennell
Filed under: people, , Columbia Pictures, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Leon Schlesinger Studios, United Productions of America (UPA), Walt Disney
"Paul Fennell was a storyboard artist who got his start as an animator at Disney Studios in 1933, contributing as an uncredited animator to shorts such as Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933), Mi..."
Norman Ferguson
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director
"Norm Ferguson was hired by Walt Disney in 1929. It was not until 1931 when Norm finally received recognition through his creation of Pluto. No other animator had the same handle on the character than him. His skill on handling Pluto was showcased in ..."
Oskar Fischinger
Filed under: people, Animator, Filmmaker, Painter
"An interest in combining music and conceptual designs brought Fischinger to experiment with sound synchronization on film (this was a newer process at the time). He created a series of works titled Studies. Fischinger achieved success in 1930 with ex..."
Oskar Fischinger
Filed under: people, Animator, Filmmaker, Painter, 1930s, 1940s, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Studios
"Oskar Fischinger was a German-American painter, filmmaker and abstract animator. He invented several tools and techniques for special effects. While personally producing a vast amount of abstract fine art and film, he also collaborated with pioneer f..."
Dudley Fisher
Filed under: people, Cartoonist, Layout Artist, Photographer
"Dudley Fisher was born in 1890 in Columbus, Ohio. He attended the Ohio State University, attempting an architecture education. He soon dropped out in order to be a layout artist at the Columbus Dispatch newspaper. During World War I, he worked as a p..."
Dave Fleischer
Filed under: people, Director, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Dave Fleischer, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, U.S.A.
"First generation American Jew who grew up in Manhattan. His father had emigrated from Austria in the late 1880’s. He and his brother, Max, distributed their Out of the Inkwell Series by themselves in mid-1921. Sometime in 1922 they signed with dist..."
Max Fleischer
Filed under: people, Cartoonist, Director, Photographer, Producer, Writer, Aesop's Fables, Betty Boop, Early Sound, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Koko the Clown, Max Fleischer, Popeye, Rotoscope, Silent, Superman, U.S.A.
"Max Fleischer was an American inventor born in Hungary, who moved to the United States with his family at the age of 4 and later became a filmmaker, animator, director and producer, famous for serving as the head of his own animation studio, Fleisch..."
Ward Fleming
"Ward Fleming is a contemporary artist whose interest lies in the continuation and expansion of the technique of pinscreen animation. "
Emil Flohri
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist
"At the beginning of the 20th century, Flohri was a well known political cartoonist. He joined Leslie's Magazine as a young boy and worked his way up to the position of Washington political cartoonist and illustrator.After moving to Los Angeles in the..."
Don Flowers
Filed under: people, Cartoonist
"The son of a Custer City portrait photographer, Don Flowers left Oklahoma at age 16, and landed his first newspaper job with the Kansas City Star, where he spent five years as a staff artist and photo retoucher before moving on to a short stint with ..."
Peter Foldes
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Painter, Producer, Writer, Hungary, U.K.
"Peter Foldes was a Hungarian-British painter, film director, experimental animator, and scriptwriter. He is best known for producing and animating the 1956 painted animated short A Short Vision, an anti-war film that was infamously showed on The Ed S..."
F.M. (Foster Morse) Follett
"F.M. (Foster Morse) Follett worked as an animator during the silent era. He animated the Quacky Doodles series for Bray Productions, the Mutt and Jeff series for Barré Studio and later for Jefferson Film Corporation."
June Foray
Filed under: people, Voice Actor
"June Foray is one of the most prolific voice actresses in history. She is particularly well known for lending her voice to Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale in Jay Ward’s Rocky and Bullwinkle series. She was also the voice of Tweety Bird..."
Warren Foster
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist, Composer, Screenwriter, Writer, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Porky Pig, Warner Bros.
"Warren Foster was an American animator, writer and composer, known for his work first at Warner Bros. and later at Hanna-Barbera. "
John Foster
Filed under: people, Animator, Storyman, Studio Head, Aesop's Fables, Terrytoons Animated Shorts, Van Beuren Corporation
"John Foster Jr. was born on November 27, 1886, in New Jersey. He was a pioneer animator and director at Van Beuren Studios (originally founded as Fables Pictures). Foster is best known as a close collaborator of Paul Terry, credited with co-direc..."
Frank Frazetta
Filed under: people, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor
"Frank Frazetta is deemed as one of the most influential fantasy artists of the 20th century. Called by many, "The Father of modern Fantasy Art", he holds that title with great pride, though he would never admit it himself."
Stan Freberg
Filed under: people, Advertiser, Voice Actor
"Stan Freberg was born in Pasadena, CA. He is known as the last network radio comic who changed comedy forever. He was also the father of funny TV and commercials. He was very young when he started his career in 1943 and made a name for himself by wor..."
Friz Freleng
"Although little is known of I. Freleng’s life outside the studio his cartoons could be seen worldwide. Freleng’s Early Career I “Friz”Freleng short for Isadore Freleng was born on August 21st in 1906.Freleng first started out his career in an..."
Lillian Friedman Astor
Filed under: people, Animator, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Early Sound, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer, U.S.A.
"Lilian Friedman Astor was the first American female studio animator and worked at Fleischer studios."
Lillian Friedman Astor
Filed under: people, Animator, 1930s, Betty Boop, Betty Boop series, Color, Dave Fleischer, Early Sound, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer, Popeye, U.S.A.
"Lillian Friedman Astor was born in New York City. She developed a passion for drawing as a preteen, and went on to attend Washington Irving High School, focusing on fashion design. After a brief stint as a fashion designer upon graduation, she sought..."
Ving Fuller
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist
"Fuller's first position was of as a gag cartoonist for the Daily Graphic in the early 1920s. In 1925, he moved to the animation industry and started working as an animator at Bray Productions. However, his career as an animator was short lived and he..."
A. C. (Ace) Gamer
Filed under: people,
"A.C. Gamer was a famous special effects animator at Leon Schlesinger Productions and Warner Bros. Cartoons. He started working at the Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1936 and worked until the late 1940s. During this time, he animated special effects ..."
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Filed under: people, Advertiser, Artist, Cartoonist, Illustrator, Writer
"Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss - was an American writer, cartoonist, animator, and artist - best known for his children's books. Adopting the moniker of Dr. Seuss during his university studies at Dartmouth and Oxford, Geisel began his career illu..."
Tibor Gergely
Filed under: people, Artist, Illustrator
"When he was a young teen he went to Galilei Circle and also became a member of the Sunday Circle after going to their lectures at the Free School of Spiritual Sciences. Later he went to Vienna with his wife Anna Lesznai. In Vienna he studied Lithogra..."
Clyde (Gerry) Geronimi
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, Producer, Writer
"Geronimi had a sister named Emma and a brother name Larry. They were born in Chiavenna, a town of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Sondrio, and came to the US through Ellis Island around the year 1903."
Vance Gerry
Filed under: people, Animation Story Developer, Character Designer, Layout Artist, Storyboard Artist
"For half a century, Vance Gerry was one of Disney’s most integral employees. In 1955, he was hired as an assistant in-betweener, then was promoted to layout artist, and later worked in story developed in the 1960s. His artistic range broadened duri..."
Charles Allen Gilbert
Filed under: people, Artist, Illustrator
"Gilbert is mostly known for his illustrations and paintings, including All Is Vanity (1892), Woman Playing Piano (1901), Woman with Rose (1910). In 1916, Gilbert partnered with John Randolph Bray to create Bray-Gilbert Studio. It produced the Silhoue..."
Burt Gillett
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Rainbow Parade, Silly Symphonies, Technicolor, Ub Iwerks, Van Beuren Corporation, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walter Lantz Productions
"Burt Gillett was one of the first novice animators to come to Walt Disney Studios and work alongside Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. He took a number of important directorial positions at the studio, directing a few of Disney's most important early animat..."
Bob Givens
Filed under: people, Animator, Character Designer, Layout Artist, Production Designer, Writer
"“I went to Chouinard, mostly nights, and then I went to Bistram School, New York Art Students League and Jepson in Los Angeles. Quite a bit of art training then and over the years…Drawing is the basis of all this business. You can’t get too muc..."
Louise M. Glackens
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist, Illustrator
"Glackens debuted as a cartoonist at Puck in the 1890's. After the magazine was sold in 1914, Glackens found employment at Barré Studio and Bray Productions, where he worked as an animator on the Mutt and Jeff series, and as a director on Goldwyn-Bra..."
Frank Gladstone
Filed under: people, President
"Gladstone has lectured on the animation industry at schools and institutions throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. He has taught various animation, cinematography and motion picture courses and workshops at, and on behalf of, Stanford ..."
Eric Goldberg
Filed under: people, Animator, Writer
"PA and at the early age of 4 years old, the American- born animator was already ‘hooked’ on early Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the Mickey Mouse Club and The Woody Woodpecker Show. Eric was fascinated by Walter Lantz’s demonstrations each week and he..."
Francis Lyle Goldman
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Storyman
"Goldman began his career in the animation industry at Bray Productions where he worked on the Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs (1919-1920) as an animator, director and storyman. At the end of the 1920s, he found employment under the supervision of Paul Terry..."
Martha Sigall
"Martha Sigall was an American inker and painter in the Golden Era of American animation. Moving to California as a young girl, Sigall happened to live around the corner from Leon Schlesinger's Pacific Title and Art Company, where she first got a job ..."
George Gordon
"Gordon started working in the animation industry in 1930 at Moser-Terry-Coffman Studio as an animator on the Jesse and James, and Farmer Al Falfa series. Two years later, he moved to Terrytoons with one of his previous employers, Paul Terry. After a ..."
Dan Gordon
Filed under: people, Artist, Director, Layout Artist, Producer, Storyboard Artist, Writer
"Daniel Gordon is best known for being a Storyboard Artist, director, and producer. His most well known work is with Famous Studios and Hanna-Barbara Productions. While working with famous in the 1930’s and 40’s, he wrote and directed many stories..."
Alla Gracheva
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Ukraine
"Alla Gracheva was born in Ukraine in 1924 at an unknown date. Joining Kievnauchfilm around 1960-1962, she was known for her lyrical, didactic animations that were geared at children as well as shorts that were based on classical Ukrainian stories...."
Don Graham
Filed under: people, Educator, Master Draftsman
"He was among the first graduating class of Chouinard. He continued to study and paint landscapes until 1930 when he returned to Los Angeles and was hired by Mrs. Chouinard as life drawing instructor for the next four years. His education as a drawing..."
Bernhard August (Hardie) Gramatky
Filed under: people, Animator, Illustrator, Painter, Writer
"Gramatky was already a well know watercolor painter when he started working in the animation industry. For six years, he worked as an assistant animator and animator on Mickey Mouse animations for Walt Disney.After leaving Walt Disney Productions in ..."
Joe Grant
Filed under: people, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist
"Born in New York, Grant worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist starting in 1933, leaving in 1949 to start his own ceramics and greeting card company. I..."
Zlatko Grgíc
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Animator, Director, Color, Professor Balthazar, Yugoslavia (Croatia), Zagreb Film
"Zlakto Grgíc was a Croatian-Canadian animator and director known for his projects with Zagreb Film, creating the Yugoslav series Professor Balthazar and Maxi Cat, as well as award-nominated shorts such as Muzikalno prase/The Musical Pig (1966) and L..."
Paul Grimault
Filed under: people, Animator, Art Director, Director
"Paul Grimault studied graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, though soon after graduating his friends directed him towards animation. He began, as many early animators, doing short films for advertisement. He and Andre Sarrut decided ..."
William Hanna
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Producer, Voice Actor, Bill Hanna, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios
"William Hanna was a seven-time Oscar winning animation legend, who along with partner Joseph Barbera created hundreds of the most memorable cartoon characters and shorts. These characters incl..."
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Cartoonist, Director, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Bill Hanna, Color, Droopy, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Joe Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry, U.S.A.
"William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two animators from MGM who began their own animated television studio, Hanna-Barbera Productions; a studio which would dominate and transform the industry from the 60s to the end of the century.William Denby “B..."
Bernice Hansen
Filed under: people, Actor, Voice Actor
"Miscredited as Bernice Hansell in a variety of animated cartoon through the golden age, Bernice Edna Hansell was a voice actress known for her squealing voice in countless cartoons of the 1930's, providing the squeaks for Mickey Mouse, small children..."
Ben “Bugs” Hardaway
Filed under: people, Animator, Storyboard Artist, Voice Actor, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Warner Bros.
"Ben Hardaway was an American storyboard artist, voice actor, animator and gagman during the Golden Age of American animation. Supplying the voice of Woody Woodpecker in many cartoon shorts, Hardaway was the man who gave "Bugs Bunny" his iconic name. "
Laverne Harding
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist, Comic Strip Artist, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Color, Daffy Duck, Early Sound, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Joe Barbera, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Oswald, Speedy Gonzales, Technicolor, The Road Runner, U.S.A., Walter Lantz, Walter Lantz Productions, Warner Bros., Woody Woodpecker
"Laverne Harding was the second female studio animator in history, and one of the first to receive onscreen credit for her work. She started out as an inker for the Walter Lantz Productions, moving on to do animation work for several of the Lantz Prod..."
Hugh Harman
Filed under: people, Animator, Leon Schlesinger Studios, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros.
"Hugh Harman was a three time Oscar nominated animator who founded the MGM Animation Studios as well as Warner..."
Echo Henoche
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, 2010s, Canada, National Film Board of Canada
"Echo Henoche is an Inuk artist and animator from Labrador. Her animation style is influenced by the Inuit art she grew up around in Labrador. She has worked with artists such as Asinnajaq and Elise Simard at the National Film Board, where she develo..."
Hikaru Hayashi
Filed under: people, Composer, Japan, Music
"Hikaru Hayashi was a renowned Japanese composer, pianist, and conductor. Throughout his career, he composed more than 30 operas, and 100 film scores. Hayashi was also an active music critic for a Japanese newspaper, and wrote 20 books. He is best kno..."
Sterling Holloway
Filed under: people, Actor, Voice Actor, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Winnie the Pooh
"Born in Cedartown, Georgia to a grocer, Sterling Holloway's acting career began in his teens, when he enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where his classmates included Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien. After graduation, h..."
Ferdinand Horvath
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Animator, Background Artist, Character Designer, Illustrator, Layout Artist, Storyboard Artist, Aesop's Fables, Color, Columbia Pictures, Early Sound, George Pal, Krazy Kat, Mickey Mouse, Painted Animation, Paul Terry, Puppetoons, Silly Symphonies, Technicolor, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios
"Ferdinand Horvath was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1891. Horvath was an animator and illustrator at various major animation studios such as Fable Studios, Inc., Walt Disney, and Screen Gems (Columbia Pictures) Horvath died of a stroke on Novem..."
John Hubley
Filed under: people, Animator, Art Director
"John Hubley was born in Marinette, Wisconsin, USA on May 21, 1914 to an artistic family. He is best known as one half of the animating duo with his wife Faith Hubley, who formerly worked as a sound editor and a script clerk at various major studio..."
Faith Hubley
Filed under: people, Animator, Art Director, Artist, Color, Painted Animation
"Faith Hubley (née Chestman) was born September 16, 1924 to Russian-Jewish emigrants in New York, on Manhattan’s West Side during the depression. She is best known as one half of the animating duo alongside her husband John Hubley, a former Disn..."
Dick Huemer
Filed under: people, , Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Koko the Clown, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios
"An animator during the golden age of animation, Huemer worked for the Disney organization from 1933-1973, an impressive 50 years. Alongside his working partner Joe Grant, Huemer helped create some of the most compelling and memorable animations durin..."
Earl Hurd
Filed under: people, , Bray Productions, Terrytoons Animated Shorts, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney
"Hurd was a pioneering American animator who worked at the beginning of the early animation age, noted for creating the silent animated short Bobby Bumpbs, and working for John Randolph Bray's company Bray Productions. Together, the pair developed ..."
Rudy Ising
Filed under: people, Animator, Bosko, Early Sound, Looney Tunes, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Warner Bros.
"Ising began his animation career first working for Walt Disney, and was the lifelong business partner of Hugh Harman, producing Oscar-win..."
Ub Iwerks
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Director, Producer
"Iwerks was working as an artist at the Pesman-Rubin Commercial Art Studio in Kansas City when he met Walt Disney. They became good friends and colleagues. They made notable attempts at starting their own business together in Kansas City including Lau..."
Wilfred Jackson
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, U.S.A.
"Came to Disney in the midst of the loss of Oswald the rabbit to Warner Brothers. Originally a musician, he worked on synchronization for animation shorts. Became a director on accident. Early Life/Family: Married in 1929 to Jane, last name not found...."