Arthur Davis
Tedd Pierce
Bob Clampett
Tex Avery
William L. Hendricks
John Burton
Eddie Selzer
Leon Schlesinger
Warren Foster
Milt Franklyn
Carl Stalling
Rod Scribner
Warren Batchelder
Ken Harris
Hugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Chuck Jones
Frank Tashlin
Friz Freleng
Michael Maltese
Robert McKimson
1. Arthur Davis
Arthur Davis was born on June 14, 1905, was an American animator and director of the Warner Brothers animation studio, Termite Terrace. Davis was born in Yonkers, New York to Hungarian parents. He is the younger brother of entertainer Mannie Davis. Davis started at Out Of The Inkwell Films in New York when he was a teenager and worked as an assistant when Dick Huemer suggested him as an assistant in 1922. He is considered the first middle man in the animation industry. Another of his accolades was playing the famous "bouncing ball" from the 1920s cartoon "Follow the Bouncing Ball".
While one of the Fleischer brothers played the ukulele, Davis kept up the rhythm with a wooden stick with a white thumbtack at the...
Date of Death:
09-05-2000
Age:
118
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
09-05-2000
Age:
118
Gender:
Male
2. Tedd Pierce
Tedd Pierce (Edward Stacey Pierce III), was an American Screenplay Writer, animator, and Voice-Over Artist. Born in 1906, Pierce was principally active from 1935 to 1972. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time. Tedd Pierce is best known for his work as a writer for the Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, where he spent the major part of his career. From 1939 to 1941, he worked as a writer at Fleischer Studios. Jones, who was one of his fellow luminaries at Warner Bros.
"Termite Terrace", credited Pierce in his autobiography “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist” (1989) as a role model for the character Pepé Le Pew, who i...
Date of Death:
19-02-1972
Age:
117
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
19-02-1972
Age:
117
Gender:
Male
3. Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. was not only an American animator but also a director, producer, and a puppeteer. He is also commonly known as Bob Clampett. He was born on May 8, 1913, in San Diego, California, and died in Detroit, Michigan, on May 2, 1984. He worked with Warner Bros. in an animated series. Since his early days, he was interested in animations and puppetry. As he was a shy person, he left his graduation in 1931 and joined a production team and started working on Looney Tunes. In his later years, he went to college as a lecturer on the history of animation....
Date of Death:
02-05-1984
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
4. Tex Avery
Tex Avery was born on 26th February, 1908, In Taylor, Texas, U.S. His name was Fredrick Bean Avery. His family consisted of his mother, Augusta 'Jessie', his father, St. George Walton Avery, and his spouse, Patricia. She worked for the Universal Studios, and they got married in 1935. Avery graduated from North City High School in 1926. He was interested and inclined towards being a newspaper draftsman. Then he joined a three-month summer solstice course of the Chicago Art Institute, but wasn't able to continue after a month. Tex worked as an Associate, Nursing Animator, Animation Director, Cartoonist, and voice actor.
A number of his greatest works are The Adventures of Lax Free in 1985, cartoon series Tex Avery ...
Date of Death:
26-08-1980
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
26-08-1980
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
5. William L. Hendricks
On May 3, 1904, William L. Hendricks was born. He was a retired USMC Colonel who was instrumental in establishing the "Toys for Tots" program. In addition to his USMCR career, he spent several years in the film business, first as a documentary producer for the US Army, then as a production executive at Warner Bros. He finally became the last producer of the Looney Tunes series. Hendricks, then a Major in the USMCR, was requested by his wife Diane in 1947 to contribute some toys (including some she had created herself) to an organization that distributed gifts to underprivileged children. However, his study revealed that no such organization existed, so he decided to establish one himself. He oversaw a toy collection in the Los ...
Date of Death:
29-03-1992
Age:
119
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
29-03-1992
Age:
119
Gender:
Male
6. John Burton
John W. Burton was one of the most prominent personalities of the American Film Industry. Burton was a well-known American cinematographer and animated film producer known for his work Warner Bros, Cartoons. Mostly, he got recognized for Unnatural History, Goldimouse and the three cats, and Ascent of the Matterhorn.
He was born on August 18, 1906, in Rockford, Illinois, to a well-fitted family. He was grown mainly in the former country by his parents only. Speaking about his educational qualifications, he completed his schooling at one of the nearby prestigious schools in his town and later went to a University for further higher studies. After completing all his studies, he dived into the world of Cinema. He began his journey an...
Date of Death:
01-06-1978
Age:
117
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-06-1978
Age:
117
Gender:
Male
7. Eddie Selzer
Edward "Eddie" Selzer was born on January 12, 1893, and died on February 22, 1970. Edward "Eddie" Selzer was an American film producer and publicist who oversaw Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 through 1958. He was a Golden Gloves boxer and served in the United States Navy. He won a boxing demonstration for the Navy and was given a weekend pass as a result. While on leave, he met a New York chorus girl called Laura Cohn; he married Laura in 1927 and moved to Los Angeles, where they had two daughters, Phyllis and Robert. Lewis Warner convinced Selzer to join Warner Bros. in 1930 to work on Robert Ripley's "Believe it or Not" series and to establish an animation studio. He had no option but to accept the po...
Date of Death:
22-02-1970
Age:
131
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
22-02-1970
Age:
131
Gender:
Male
8. Leon Schlesinger
Leon Schlesinger, an American producer, was born on 20 May 1884 and took his last breath on 25 December 1949. During the Great Era of Animation, Leon Schlesinger founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later acquired Warner Bros. He initially established Pacific Title and Art in 1919 after working as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager at numerous theatres. His major business was crafting silent film title cards. Schlesinger was a savvy businessman with the ability to spot talent. Schlesinger was also notorious for his speech defect among his animators. As the popularity of talking pictures (“talkies”) grew in 1929 and 1930, Schlesinger searched for various ways to profit from the new technology. Animators w...
Date of Death:
25-12-1949
Age:
139
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-12-1949
Age:
139
Gender:
Male
9. Warren Foster
Warren Foster was an American writer and cartoonist. He was born on the 24th of October 1904 in Brooklyn, New York. His father’s name was Charles C. Foster, and his mother’s name was Marion B. Foster. He was known for “The Secret Squirrel Show” (1965), “The Atom Ant Show” (1965), and “The Filmstones” (1960). He completed his education at Brooklyn Technical High School and graduated from Pratt Institute. He started his writing career in 1935 at Fleischer Studios, where he wrote scripts for cartoons.
Later, he joined Warner Bros Cartoons in 1938, working on writing cartoon scripts like “Porky in Wackyland”, “B...
Date of Death:
13-12-1971
Age:
119
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-12-1971
Age:
119
Gender:
Male
10. Milt Franklyn
Milt Franklyn was a composer and an arranger for Warner Bros, Looney Tunes animated series. He was born on September 16, 1897, in New York City, and died on April 24, 1962. When Franklyn's family moved from New York to Salt Lake City, he was three years old. On June 10, 1915, Franklyn graduated from high school in Salt Lake City. He studied at the University of Utah for a year. He was Utah's state junior tennis champion for six years. He spent the next few years at the University of California, Berkeley, before getting drafted into the army and enrolling at Pennsylvania University. Franklyn did not go overseas; instead, he trained as a navy lieutenant for three months before signing the Armistice on November 11, 1918.
...
Date of Death:
24-04-1962
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-04-1962
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
11. Carl Stalling
Carl W. Stalling was a composer, voice artist, and music arranger in animated films. On November 10, 1891, he was born in Lexington, Missouri, US. He was birthed to German parents Ernest and Sophia C. Stalling, who moved to the United States in 1883. His father worked as a carpenter. Carl was very interested in music art, right from a young age. At the age of six, he learned piano for the first time. When Carl turned 12, he was already a principal piano accompanist in his hometown’s silent movie house. In his early 20s, he worked on his orchestra and played the organ at the Movie Theatre in Kansas City. His main work during that time was to play the organ for silent films. He and young Walt Disney met in Kansas City, where Disney w...
Date of Death:
29-09-1972
Age:
132
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
29-09-1972
Age:
132
Gender:
Male
12. Rod Scribner
Rod Scribner, or Roderick Henry Scribner, is an animator from America. He was born on October 10, 1910, in Joseph, Oregon, US. He is a renowned animator who made remarkable contributions to the iconic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. He was a part of cartoons during the Golden Age of American animation. His talent and artistic skills played a vital role in shaping the characters and captivating narratives that have delighted audiences for generations. His passion for drawing developed early in his life and continued to grow during his high school years.
While attending Denison University, he pursued his interests in drawing alongside his studies. Rob decided to focus on his artistic pur...
Date of Death:
21-12-1976
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-12-1976
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
13. Warren Batchelder
Warren Batchelder was an American Animation Director and Animator of over 200 Warner Bros. and Pink Panther cartoons. Batchelder was born in Los Angeles County, California, USA, in the year 1917. He also worked for DePatie-Freleng, Ed Graham, and Marvel from 1936 to his retirement in 2002. Warren worked as an animator on cartoons such as The Road Runner Show, The Sylvester, The Tweety Show, and The Bugs Bunny Show. Warren was awarded the Animation Guild Golden Award in 1987. He was the animation director for Defenders of the Earth, Dungeons & Dragons, Muppet Babies, and many more. Warren animated for television series like The Hoober-Bloob Highway, Pink Panther in the “OLYMPINKS!”, A Pink Christmas, and so on. He was 89 w...
Date of Death:
12-02-2007
Age:
107
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
12-02-2007
Age:
107
Gender:
Male
14. Ken Harris
Ken Harris is also known as Karyl Ross "Ken" Harris, was an animator from the United States. On July 31, 1898, he was born in Tulare County, California. In Stockton, New Jersey, he completed his education. He had two wives, Alta and Kathryn. During the Great Depression, he sold cars before working in animation. His first job was as an artist working for Sid Ziff, exchanging him a few cartoons occasionally. He used to be a racer, and he worked as an assistant service vice manager and seller at a Pontiac dealership before it closed down. He later became a journalist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He was tired of his job and was constantly looking for a job animating cartoons. He eventually landed unpaid work at Romer Grey S...
Date of Death:
24-03-1982
Age:
125
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-03-1982
Age:
125
Gender:
Male
15. Hugh Harman
Hugh Harman was an American artist, most known for making cartoon shows for Warner Bros. furthermore, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Harman is most known for his 1939 Nobel Peace Prize and Oscar candidate animation "Peace on Earth" and for his work with his accomplice Rudolf Ising.
Hugh Harman previously worked in animation in the mid-1920s at Walt Disney's studio in Kansas City. When Disney moved to California, Harman, Rudolf Ising, and individual illustrator Carman Maxwell were passed on to attempt to begin their studio. But their arrangements failed miserably and the men before long joined Disney to work at their Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit motion pictures. It was around this time that Harman and Ising foste...
Date of Death:
25-11-1982
Age:
120
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-11-1982
Age:
120
Gender:
Male
16. Rudolf Ising
Rudolf Rudy Ising was an American illustrator, most known for making cartoon shows for Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is additionally most popular for his Oscar for the MGM animation in 1940 and his works with a partner, Hugh Harman.
Rudolf Ising initially worked in the mid-1920s at Walt Disney's studio in Kansas City. When Disney moved to California, Hugh Harman, Ising, and individual artist Carman Maxwell remained behind to attempt to begin their studio. Their arrangements went no place, and the men before long rejoined Disney to work at the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit films. It was during this time, that Harman and Ising fostered a style of animation drawing that would later be firmly connected wit...
Date of Death:
18-07-1992
Age:
120
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
18-07-1992
Age:
120
Gender:
Male
17. Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912, Spokane, Washington, USA—February 22, 2002, Corona del Mar, California) was an American animation director best known for his work on the Warner Bros. studios' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies film series. Chunk Jones Achievements:- During the Golden Age of animation, Jones brought to life many of Warner Bros.' most famous characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Porky Pig. Among the characters he created are the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin Martian, Pepe le Pew, Michigan J. Frog, and many others.
He also wrote the screenplays for "Dr. Seuss'" and produced, directed, and wrote them. A television class...
Date of Death:
22-02-2002
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
22-02-2002
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
18. Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin (Francis Fredrick von Taschlein) was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, on February 19, 1913, and died in Los Angeles, California, on May 5, 1972.He was a broad satirical comedic cartoonist, writer, animator, and film director from the United States. He directed many Porky pictures in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the majority of the Merrie Melodies from 1937 to 1938.Tashlin released The Bear That Wasn't, a children's book, in 1946. The novel was adapted for television by MGM Animation Studios, directed by Chuck Jones, almost twenty years after the book was published.
His Achievements:- 1. Tashlin worked as an animator during the day while drawing a newspaper comic str...
Date of Death:
05-05-1972
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-05-1972
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
19. Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (21st August 1905- 26th May 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer from the United States. He is often known as I. Freleng. He is most known for his work on Warner Bros.'s "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" cartoon series. Freleng grew up in a Jewish family. He hails from Kansas City, Missouri. Later, he started his animation career at “United Film Ad Service.” He met renowned animators Hugh Harman and Ub Iwerks while working in the studio. Walt Disney, Iwerks' friend, moved to Hollywood in 1923. He invited his Kansas City colleagues to join him. Freleng resisted his offer until January 1927. In the same year, he shifted to California ...
Date of Death:
26-05-1995
Age:
118
Gender:
Male
20. Michael Maltese
Bio coming soon......
Date of Death:
22-02-1981
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
22-02-1981
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
21. Robert McKimson
Bio coming soon......
Date of Death:
29-09-1977
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
29-09-1977
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
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