Biography
Born June 24, 1912, and passing on March 19, 2006, he was an animator and sequence director who also worked as a layout artist, storyboard artist, and story director. His animation collaborations included Ub Iwerks, Raphael Wolff, Paul Fennell, and Larry Harmon. He began his animation career with Bambi, earning his first screen credit on the 1944 Donald Duck short, The Plastics Inventor. He later contributed to Disney feature films like Song of the South and Make Mine Music in 1946, eventually shifting focus to TV animation.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he directed popular TV series such as The Dick Tracy Show, The Pink Panther and Friends, Baggy Pants & the Nitwits, What's New, Mr. Magoo?, and The Fantastic Four. He also animated on The Yogi Bear Show. Throughout the 1980s, he continued working in television animation as a sequence director for The Transformers, G.I. Joe, The Atom Ant Show, and Jem.
From 1934 to 1999, he worked at numerous studios, including Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz, Tempo, Calvin Co., Academy Studios, ERA Productions, Hanna-Barbera, UPA, Warner Bros., Sanrio, DePatie-Freleng (and later Marvel Productions), Graz Entertainment, and New World.
In 1985, he was honored with the Animation Guild Golden Award.
