"Dixieland Droopy Dixieland Droopy is a 1954 animated short subject in the ""Droopy"" series, directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ""Dixieland Droopy"" was produced simultaneously in Academy ratio and CinemaScope versions. An unseen narrator (John Brown) tells the story of a Dixieland-music-loving dog named John Irving Pettybone (Droopy, voice of Bill Thompson). Pettybone's one love is listening to a record of Dixieland jazz, specifically ""Tiger Rag"", and pretending to conduct the music. Unfortunately, the manager of the dump where Pettybone lives is not a fan of Dixieland, and he evicts the hapless dog from the"
"Art Babbitt Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as an animation director and animator, and also developed the character of Goofy. Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on such films as ""The Three Little Pigs"" (1933), ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Fantasia"" (1940), and ""The Incredible Mr. Limpet"" (1964), among others. Outside of Disney, he also animated ""The Wise Quacking Duck"" (1943) for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Babbitt was"
"Duck Amuck Duck Amuck is an American surreal animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The short film was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation, the short subject division of Warner Bros., as part of the ""Merrie Melodies"" series. It stars Daffy Duck, who is tormented by a seemingly sadistic, initially unseen animator, who constantly changes Daffy's locations, clothing, voice, physical appearance and even shape, much to Daffy's aggravation and rage. Pandemonium reigns throughout the cartoon as Daffy attempts to steer the action back to some kind of normality, only for the animator"
"Jim Duffy (animator) Jim Duffy (July 2, 1937 – March 23, 2012) was an American animator whose credits included more than twenty years at Klasky Csupo creating productions for Nickelodeon, as well as an earlier stints as an animator for Hanna Barbera, TVC Animation in London, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, and others. Duffy received two Primetime Emmy Awards for the 2000s animated show, ""As Told by Ginger"", as well as several other nominations for his work on ""Rugrats"". Duffy also won three Daytime Emmy Awards during his tenure at Klasky Csupo, and received additional nominations for his work on ""Aaahh!!! Real Monsters"" and"
"Daffy Duck Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, the character has appeared in cartoon series such as ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"", in which he usually has been depicted as a foil for Bugs Bunny. Daffy was one of the first of the new ""screwball"" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye. Daffy starred in 130 shorts in the golden age, making him the third-most frequent character in the ""Looney"
"shows such as ""JoJo's Circus"", ""Stanley"", ""Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up"", ""HoopDogz"", and ""Pinky Dinky Doo"". Jim Jinkins James Jinkins (born August 8, 1953) is an American animator, children's author and creator of the animated ""Doug"" television series which was later the basis for a feature film. Jinkins also created ""PB&J Otter"", as well as several other shows produced by his two companies, Jumbo Pictures and Cartoon Pizza. Jinkins was born in Richmond, Virginia, and lived there during his childhood. His experiences growing up in Richmond would serve as an inspiration for the fictional town of Bluffington, Virginia, in the series ""Doug""."
"His work at the latter included ""Scooby-Doo"", ""The Flintstones"", ""The Jetsons"", ""The Smurfs"" and ""Tom and Jerry"". In the early 1990s, Lusk retired after a career that spanned 60 years. Don Lusk Donald Lusk (born October 28, 1913) is an American former animator and director. Don Lusk was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933. Some of his more notable work included ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"", ""Bambi"", ""Song of the South"", ""Cinderella"", ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Lady and the Tramp"", ""Sleeping Beauty"" and ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Lusk left Disney in 1960, but continued to work as an animator"
"Comedy/Adventure Show"" (1979). He died in January 1981 aged 66 at Van Nuys in California. Manuel Perez (animator) Manuel ""Manny"" Perez (17 June 1914 – 18 January 1981) was a Mexican American animator and animation director whose career spanned 40 years, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts, working on such cartoons as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Later in his career he worked on Fritz the Cat and ""The Lord of the Rings"". Born in 1914 in Morenci, Arizona, in 1917 his family moved to Los Angeles where"
"Daffy Doodles Daffy Doodles is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, produced in 1945, and released in 1946. Daffy is the notorious ""moustache fiend"", bent on putting a mustache on every lip in sight, while Porky is a police officer intent on capturing Daffy. This cartoon is the first full-length cartoon that animator Robert McKimson directed. Mel Blanc provided the voices for the characters, and Warren Foster was the writer. A narrator intones that in a large eastern city, the residents are terrified and the police baffled - all because someone has been painting"
"Darrell Van Citters Darrell Van Citters (born October 29, 1956) is an American director, animator, and author, perhaps best known for directing the animated television series ""Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi"" and directing popular ""Looney Tunes"" cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird and Foghorn Leghorn. He partnered with Ashley Postelwaite in 1992 to form Renegade Animation. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Darrell Van Citters began his career in animation training at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in the Disney-sponsored Character Animation program. While still at Cal Arts,"
"Duck Cartoon Festival featuring Tick Tock Tuckered"". It also included as a bonus feature of the DVD ""My Reputation"", starring Barbara Stanwyck. Daffy Doodles Daffy Doodles is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, produced in 1945, and released in 1946. Daffy is the notorious ""moustache fiend"", bent on putting a mustache on every lip in sight, while Porky is a police officer intent on capturing Daffy. This cartoon is the first full-length cartoon that animator Robert McKimson directed. Mel Blanc provided the voices for the characters, and Warren Foster was the writer. A narrator"
"Dick Lundy (animator) Richard James ""Dick"" Lundy (August 14, 1907 – April 7, 1990) was an American animator and film director who worked at several different animation studios including Walt Disney Animation Studios, MGM, and Hanna-Barbera. Lundy was a pioneer of personality animation and is today most remembered as one of the creators of Donald Duck. Throughout his career he worked as a primary animator on at least 60 films, both short and feature-length, and directed 51 short films. In the summer of 1929 Lundy started working for The Walt Disney Company, first assigned in the ink and paint department."
"Chuck Jones Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Michigan J. Frog, the Three Bears, and a slew of other Warner characters. After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions, and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,"
"The Daffy Doc The Daffy Doc is a 1938 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon supervised by Bob Clampett (credited as ""Robert Clampett"") and starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. This cartoon was produced by Leon Schlesinger and released by Vitaphone and Warner Bros.. Dr. Quack is preparing for an important operation and asks his assistant Dr. Daffy Duck (also a quack) to please keep things quiet for him. Everything starts out calmly enough, but Daffy goes insane when Dr. Quack starts barking orders faster and faster (Scalpel, scissors, clamps, needle, etc). Daffy goes completely crazy and grabs the tools, throws them in"
"Milt Neil Milt Neil (May 30, 1914 - October 18, 1997), sometimes known as ""the Duck Man"", was an American animator, toy designer and comics artist. . Milt Neil was born in New Jersey in 1914. He worked for Disney Studios from 1935 to 1944. He worked on ""Fantasia"", ""Dumbo"", ""Saludos Amigos"", and ""The Three Caballeros"". After leaving Disney he briefly worked for Walter Lantz. He was also active in advertising and redesigned the two mascots of Pea Soup Andersen's. They received their permanent names Hap-Pea and Pea-Wee through a contest. Neil became involved with the children's show ""Howdy Doody"","
"Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a 1939 ""Merrie Melodies"" animated cartoon short supervised by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for Warner Bros. Pictures. The cartoon is notably the first Daffy Duck cartoon supervised by Jones. ""Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur"" is set in the Stone Age and features Daffy Duck, a caveman named Casper (a caricature of Jack Benny), and his pet ""Apatosaurus"", Fido. As usual, Mel Blanc provides the voice of Daffy here, while Casper is performed by Jack Lescoulie. This is the last cartoon with the ""Vitaphone"" intro, which"
"cartoons with the character, Jones depicted Daffy here as somewhat more thoughtful and calculating. Jones and Friz Freleng continued to develop Daffy's personality in this direction throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a 1939 ""Merrie Melodies"" animated cartoon short supervised by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for Warner Bros. Pictures. The cartoon is notably the first Daffy Duck cartoon supervised by Jones. ""Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur"" is set in the Stone Age and features Daffy Duck, a caveman named Casper (a caricature of Jack Benny), and"
"Festival, being subsequently shown on the Honolulu Film Awards. It has won positive reviews. Donovan Cook Donovan R. Cook III is an American film director and cartoon creator, best known for creating, directing and producing the animated series ""2 Stupid Dogs"" and directing the Disney animated features ""Return to Never Land"" and """". Donovan Cook was born in 1968. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990 and has worked on several different Disney animated movies, such as ""The Little Mermaid"" and the Mickey Mouse adaptation of ""The Prince and the Pauper"". In 1992, he created the"
"Don Lusk Donald Lusk (born October 28, 1913) is an American former animator and director. Don Lusk was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933. Some of his more notable work included ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"", ""Bambi"", ""Song of the South"", ""Cinderella"", ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Lady and the Tramp"", ""Sleeping Beauty"" and ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Lusk left Disney in 1960, but continued to work as an animator during the 1960s and 1970s. Aside from animation, Lusk also directed multiple cartoon films and series, most notably for various ""Peanuts"" TV specials and movies and for the Hanna-Barbera studio."
"Dark Horse Comics. In 1997, Droopy appeared in Cartoon Network's ""Bloopers of the Cartoon Stars"" bumper. Here in his blooper reel, he says his signature line ""I'm so happy"" while actually smiling. The following is the list of voice actors who have portrayed Droopy, the years they regularly voiced the character, and the films and/or television series they did the voice in: The Droopy shorts were directed by Tex Avery (1943–1955), Dick Lundy (1952), and Michael Lah (1955–1958) at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in Hollywood, California. All shorts were released to theaters by MGM. Fred Quimby was the producer of"
"talk show host, and they always wind up with Daffy starring in ""Moby Dick"" (the story's running gag). After this, Bugs comments, ""Eh, dis guy needs a new agent."" ""The Village Blacksmith"" by Longfellow Duck Amuck Duck Amuck is an American surreal animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The short film was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation, the short subject division of Warner Bros., as part of the ""Merrie Melodies"" series. It stars Daffy Duck, who is tormented by a seemingly sadistic, initially unseen animator, who constantly changes Daffy's locations, clothing,"
"Duck Dodgers Duck Edgar Dumas Aloysius Eoghain Dodgers is the metafictional star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros., featuring Daffy Duck in the role of a science fiction hero. He first appeared in the 1953 cartoon short ""Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century,"" directed by Chuck Jones as a spoof of the popular ""Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"" and ""Flash Gordon"" science fiction serials of the 1930s, casting the brash, egomaniacal Daffy Duck as the hero of the story. it is available in the DVD compilation """", and is also available for download on the iTunes"
"Dick Kinney Richard Timothy ""Dick"" Kinney (December 15, 1916 in Utah – March 24, 1985 in Glendale, California) was an American animator and comic book writer. His comic book work was mostly on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories. He was the writer who, along with artist Al Hubbard, created Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe. Kinney is the younger brother of fellow Disney animator Jack Kinney. Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney was part of the story crew on various Disney, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA and Jack Kinney Productions/King Features Syndicate theatrical and TV cartoons. The Lantz cartoon ""Niagara"
"not confusing them with complicated concepts. Dick Sutcliffe died in Dallas, Texas, from complications of a stroke at the age of 90 on May 11, 2008. Dick Sutcliffe Richard Towne Sutcliffe (April 18, 1918 – May 11, 2008) was an American animator and one of the creators of the 1960s stop motion religious animated series, ""Davey and Goliath"". Town was born on April 18, 1918, in Columbia, Pennsylvania. However, he grew up in Taneytown, Maryland. His father, Rev. Alfred Towne Sutcliffe, was a Lutheran minister. He began his career as a journalist and photographer in Roanoke, Virginia. Sutcliffe developed ""Davey"
"My Little Duckaroo My Little Duckaroo is a 1954 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short produced by Edward Selzer and starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. This cartoon in many ways resembles the 1951 short directed by Chuck Jones entitled ""Drip-Along Daffy"". In this animated piece, upon seeing a wanted poster with a reward of $10,000.00 for the dead or alive capture of Nasty Canasta, Daffy sets out alongside his companion Porky and his trusty steed to retrieve the villain and collect on the money. The cartoon can"
"Donovan Cook Donovan R. Cook III is an American film director and cartoon creator, best known for creating, directing and producing the animated series ""2 Stupid Dogs"" and directing the Disney animated features ""Return to Never Land"" and """". Donovan Cook was born in 1968. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990 and has worked on several different Disney animated movies, such as ""The Little Mermaid"" and the Mickey Mouse adaptation of ""The Prince and the Pauper"". In 1992, he created the Emmy-nominated TV series ""2 Stupid Dogs"" for Hanna-Barbera. The style he revived in ""2"
"Dick Sutcliffe Richard Towne Sutcliffe (April 18, 1918 – May 11, 2008) was an American animator and one of the creators of the 1960s stop motion religious animated series, ""Davey and Goliath"". Town was born on April 18, 1918, in Columbia, Pennsylvania. However, he grew up in Taneytown, Maryland. His father, Rev. Alfred Towne Sutcliffe, was a Lutheran minister. He began his career as a journalist and photographer in Roanoke, Virginia. Sutcliffe developed ""Davey and Goliath"" with ""Gumby"" creators Art Clokey and Ruth Clokey Goodell. The show was aimed spreading simple religious messages and morals to young television viewers, while"
"The Stupor Salesman The Stupor Salesman is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon of the ""Looney Tunes"" series, directed by Arthur Davis, written by Lloyd Turner and Bill Scott, and released in 1948. It stars Mel Blanc as the voices of Daffy Duck and Slug McSlug, an infamous bank robber. Slug McSlug, a notorious criminal (and anthropomorphic dog), is chased by police after successfully robbing the Last National Bank. He reaches his country hideout, where he is promptly visited by an uninvited Daffy Duck, who is a door-to-door salesman of a variety of items. McSlug slams the door in Daffy's face,"
"Greg Ford Greg Ford is an animator, director, historian and consultant to Warner Bros. Animation. He is perhaps best known for directing the films ""Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"" (1988) and ""(Blooper) Bunny"" (1991). During the 1960s and 1970s, he interviewed many of the key people responsible for Warner Bros.' success during The Golden Age of American animation (including Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng), and was given ""special thanks"" for working on the documentary film """", before officially joining the staff at Warner Bros. Animation in 1985. He teamed with director Terry Lennon on several theatrical shorts, television specials, and documentaries. In"
"It was here where Alex Lovy created the characters Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse, in addition to directing cartoons with classic characters Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. After just over a year at Warner Bros., Lovy returned to Hanna-Barbera, and worked there in various capacities until shortly before his death. According to Walter Lantz, Alex Lovy was ambidextrous, and could draw two storyboards at the same time, one with each hand. Alex Lovy Alex Lovy (September 2, 1913 – February 14, 1992) was an American animator. He spent the majority of his career as an animator and director"
"In 1950 Lundy worked for MGM on Barney Bear shorts and the Droopy film ""Caballero Droopy"". In 1959 Lundy worked for Hanna-Barbera on ""The Flintstones"", ""Yogi Bear"", and ""Scooby-Doo"". He retired in 1973 but continued to do freelance work for several years thereafter. Lundy was not the first to draw or even animate Donald Duck. This was done by Art Babbitt and Dick Huemer in the short film ""The Wise Little Hen"", a film in which Lundy also worked. This was Donald's first appearance, although the story offered little opportunity for character development. This would come in Donald's second appearance,"
"DVD on February 19, 2013, and ""Duck Dodgers – The Complete Second Season: Deep Space Duck"" on July 23, 2013. Duck Dodgers (TV series) Duck Dodgers is an American animated television series, based on the 1953 theatrical cartoon short ""Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"", produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 2003 to 2005. The series is comic science fiction, featuring the fictional Looney Tunes characters in metafictional roles, with Daffy Duck as the title character. It originally aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang until March 22, 2010. Though primarily based around the original ""Duck Dodgers"" short (which is set"
"around, and yelling, ""Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!"" Animator Bob Clampett immediately seized upon the Daffy Duck character and cast him in a series of cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. The early Daffy is a wild and zany screwball, perpetually bouncing around the screen with cries of ""Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo!"" (In his autobiography, Mel Blanc stated that the zany demeanor was inspired by Hugh Herbert's catchphrase, which was taken to a wild extreme for Daffy.) Clampett physically redesigned the character, making him taller and lankier and rounding out his feet and bill. He was often paired with Porky Pig. Daffy"