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 Studios for a few years before moving to Warner Bros. Cartoons.

He lacked formal art school credentials, which effectively barred him from working for Disney. After finishing his animation footage, he would go to play tennis at the courts in North Hollywood. A year before his death in 1982, he was honored with the Winsor McKay Lifetime Achievement Award, animation's highest honor. "The Pink Panther," "A Christmas Carol," "Hey There, its Yogi Bear!" and "The Thief and the Cobbler" are famous among his works. Harris died in Woodland, California, on March 24, 1982, at the age of 83, from Parkinson's disease.