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Friz Freleng

Born	Isadore Freleng (1905-08-21)August 21, 1905 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	May 26, 1995(1995-05-26) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
Other names	I. Freleng Congressman Frizby
Occupations	Animator cartoonist director producer composer
Years active	1923–1986
Employer(s)	Walt Disney Studio (1927–1928) Winkler Pictures (1928–1930) Harman-Ising (1929–1933) Leon Schlesinger Productions/Warner Bros. Cartoons (1933–1937, 1939–1962) MGM (1937–1939) Hanna-Barbera (1962-1963) DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (1963-1981) Warner Bros. Animation (1981–1986)
Spouse	Lily Schoenfeld Freleng (m. 1932)
Children	2
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Isadore "Friz" Freleng (/ˈfriːləŋ/; August 21, 1905 – May 26, 1995), credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from the 1930s to the early 1960s. In total he created more than 300 cartoons.

He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance), Granny, and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most officially-honored of the Warner directors, having won five Academy Awards and three Emmy Awards. After Warner closed down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (including The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday-morning cartoons through the early 1980s.

The nickname "Friz" came from his friend, Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator who appeared in satirical pieces in the Los Angeles Examiner, due to the character's strong resemblance to him. Over time, this shortened to "Friz".

William Schallert claimed that Freleng was the model for Mr. Magoo due to his physical appearance.

Early career

Freleng was born to Louis Mendel Freleng, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Kutno, and Elka (née Ribakoff) Freleng, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant from Odesa Oblast, in Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended Westport High School from 1919 to 1923 and where began his career in animation at the United Film Ad Service. There, he made the acquaintance of fellow animators Hugh Harman and Ub Iwerks. In 1923, Iwerks' friend, Walt Disney, moved to Hollywood and put out a call for his Kansas City colleagues to join him. Freleng, however, held out until January 1927, when he finally moved to California and joined the Walt Disney studio. He worked alongside other former Kansas City animators, including Iwerks, Harman, Carman Maxwell, and Rudolf Ising. While at Disney, Freleng worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for producers Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz. Friz said in an interview with Michael Barrier that Walt had shown patience and remorse in letters prior to joining him, but did not show that attitude after he joined Disney and instead Disney became abusive and harassed him. In 1928, Freleng left the studio, due to Disney saying he "forfeited his bonus" along with comments on his animation mistakes. Freleng moved back to Kansas to work at his old job at the United Film Ad Service.

Freleng soon teamed up with Harman and Ising (who had also left Disney's employ) to create their own studio. The trio produced a pilot film starring a new Mickey Mouse-like character named Bosko. Looking at unemployment if the cartoon failed to generate interest, Freleng moved to New York City to work on Mintz' Krazy Kat cartoons, all the while still trying to sell the Harman-Ising Bosko picture. Freleng was very unhappy living in New York and made the best of it until another opportunity opened for him. Bosko was finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who would produce the series for Warner Bros. At first, Freleng was reluctant to return to California when Harman-Ising asked him to work on the series. At the insistence of his sister Jean, Freleng soon moved back to California to work on the Bosko series, ultimately released under the title Looney Tunes. A prominent animator on the series, Freleng was eventually delegated co-directorial duties on shorts such as Bosko's Picture Show.

Freleng as director

Early Schlesinger cartoons

Harman and Ising (alongside their crew of animators) left Schlesinger's employ over disputes about budgets in 1933. Schlesinger was left with no experienced directors and therefore lured Freleng away from Harman-Ising to successfully fix cartoons directed by Tom Palmer which Warner had rejected. The young animator rapidly became Schlesinger's top director, helming the majority of the higher-budgeted Merrie Melodies shorts during the mid-1930s, and he introduced the studio's first true post-Bosko star, Porky Pig, in the film, I Haven't Got a Hat (1935). Porky was a distinctive character, unlike Bosko or his replacement, Buddy.

As a director, Freleng gained the reputation of a tough taskmaster. His unit, however, consistently produced high-quality animated shorts under his direction.

Friz Freleng directed the largest number of cartoons on the Censored Eleven, a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons originally produced and released by Warner Bros. that were withheld from syndication in the United States by United Artists (UA) in 1968 because the use of ethnic stereotypes in the cartoons, specifically African stereotypes, was deemed too offensive for contemporary audiences.

David DePatie, when asked about the Japanese beetle in Blue Racer in 1996, said this about Friz's view on race, "It seems like poking fun at certain ethnic groups had always spelled success. Friz had always felt that way in his cartoons, especially with Speedy."

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

In September 1937, Freleng left Schlesinger after accepting an increase in salary to direct for the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio headed by Fred Quimby. Freleng served as a director on The Captain and the Kids, an animated series adapted from the comic strip of the same name (an alternate version of The Katzenjammer Kids). In November 1938, Freleng became a "junior director" under Hugh Harman but quit after 6 months in April 1939.

Back with Schlesinger and Warner Bros.

Freleng happily returned to Warner Bros. in mid-April 1939 when his MGM contract ended. One of the first Looney Tunes cartoon shorts directed by Freleng during his second tenure at the studio was You Ought to Be in Pictures, a cartoon short which blended animation with live-action footage of the Warner Bros. studio (and included staff such as story man Michael Maltese and Schlesinger himself). The plot, which centers around Porky Pig being tricked by Daffy Duck into terminating his contract with Schlesinger to attempt a career in features, echoes Freleng's experience in moving to MGM.

Directorial achievements

'Snafuperman', Private Snafu cartoon directed by Freleng in 1944

Schlesinger's hands-off attitude toward his animators allowed Freleng and his fellow directors almost complete creative control and room to experiment with cartoon comedy styles, which allowed the studio to keep pace with the Disney studio's technical superiority. Freleng's style quickly matured, and he became a master of comic timing. Often working alongside layout artist Hawley Pratt, he also introduced or redesigned a number of Warner characters, including Yosemite Sam in 1945, the cat-and-bird duo Sylvester and Tweety in 1947, and Speedy Gonzales in 1955.

Freleng and Chuck Jones would dominate the Warner Bros. studio in the years after World War II, with Freleng largely concentrating on the above-mentioned characters, as well as Bugs Bunny. Freleng continued to produce modernized versions of the musical comedies he animated in his early career, such as Three Little Bops (1957) and Pizzicato Pussycat (1955). He won four Oscars during his time at Warner Bros., for the films Tweetie Pie (1947), Speedy Gonzales (1955), Birds Anonymous (1957) and Knighty Knight Bugs (1958). Other Freleng cartoons, such as Sandy Claws (1955), Mexicali Shmoes (1959), Mouse and Garden (1960) and The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) were Oscar nominees.

Freleng's cartoon, Show Biz Bugs (1957), with Daffy Duck vying with Bugs Bunny for theatre audience appreciation, was arguably a template for the successful format of The Bugs Bunny Show that premiered on television in the autumn of 1960. Further, Freleng directed the cartoons with the erudite and ever-so-polite Goofy Gophers encountering the relentless wheels of human industry, them being I Gopher You (1954) and Lumber Jerks (1955), and he also directed three cartoons (sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) extolling the virtues of free-market capitalism: By Word of Mouse (1954), Heir-Conditioned (1955) and Yankee Dood It (1956), all three of which involved Sylvester. Freleng directed all three of the vintage Warner Brothers cartoons in which a drinking of Dr. Jekyll's potion (of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) induces a series of monstrous transformations: Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954), Hyde and Hare (1955) and Hyde and Go Tweet (1960). Other Freleng fancies were man at war with the insect world (as in Of Thee I Sting (1946) and Ant Pasted (1953)), an inebriated stork delivering the wrong baby (in A Mouse Divided (1952), Stork Naked (1955) and Apes of Wrath (1959)), and characters marrying for money and finding themselves with a shrewish wife and a troublesome step-son (His Bitter Half (1949) and Honey's Money (1962)).

Freleng was occasionally the subject of in-jokes in Warner cartoons. In Canary Row (1950), there were billboards in the background of scenes advertising various products called "Friz". The "Hotel Friz" was featured in Racketeer Rabbit (1946) and "Frizby the Magician" was one of the acts Bugs Bunny pitched in High Diving Hare (1949).

Musical knowledge and technique

Freleng was somewhat of a musical composer and a classically trained violinist who timed his cartoons on musical bar sheets. Freleng would time gags that best utilized Carl Stalling's, Milt Franklyn's or William Lava's music. He was one of a very few directors at Warner Bros. to have musical knowledge for making cartoons. Every cartoon Freleng directed from the late 1930s to 1963 was made with his creative musical technique.

DePatie–Freleng Enterprises

Warner Bros. Cartoons was closed in 1963, leading Freleng to take a job at Hanna-Barbera Productions as story supervisor on their first feature, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! Freleng rented the same space from Warners to create cartoons with his now-former boss, producer David H. DePatie (the final producer hired by Warner Bros. to oversee the cartoon division), forming DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. When Warner decided to reopen their cartoon studio in 1964, due to Freleng asking them if he can rent the studio, eventually settling for $500, they did so in name only; DePatie–Freleng produced the cartoons into 1966.

The DePatie–Freleng studio's signature achievement was The Pink Panther. DePatie–Freleng was commissioned to create the opening titles for the feature film The Pink Panther (1963), for which layout artist and director Hawley Pratt and Freleng created a suave, cool cat character. The Pink Panther cartoon character became so popular that United Artists, distributors of The Pink Panther, had Freleng produce a short cartoon starring the character, The Pink Phink (1964).

After The Pink Phink won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), Freleng and DePatie responded by producing a whole series of Pink Panther cartoons. Other original cartoon series, among them The Inspector, The Ant and the Aardvark, Tijuana Toads, The Dogfather, Roland and Rattfink and Crazylegs Crane, soon followed. In 1969, The Pink Panther Show, a Saturday morning anthology program featuring DePatie–Freleng cartoons, debuted on NBC. The Pink Panther and the other original DePatie–Freleng series would remain in production through 1980, with new cartoons produced for simultaneous Saturday morning broadcast and United Artists theatrical release.

Layout artist Hawley Pratt, who worked at DePatie–Freleng during the time, is credited with the creation of Frito-Lay's Chester Cheetah, on the Food Network show "Deep Fried Treats Unwrapped", though some sources say it was DDB Worldwide, while others credit Brad Morgan. The studio is also known for creating the color opening title sequence for the I Dream of Jeannie television series. DePatie–Freleng also contributed special effects to the original version of Star Wars (1977), particularly the animation of the lightsaber blades, which was done by Korean animator Nelson Shin.

By 1967, DePatie and Freleng had moved their operations to the San Fernando Valley. Their studio was located on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Van Nuys. One of their projects, titled Goldilocks, featured Bing Crosby and his family, and had songs by the Sherman Brothers. At their new facilities, they continued to produce new cartoons until 1980, when they sold DePatie–Freleng to Marvel Comics, which renamed it Marvel Productions.

Later career and death

Freleng later served as an executive producer on three 1980s Looney Tunes compilation features, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981), Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982), and Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983), which linked classic shorts with new animated sequences. In 1986, Freleng stepped down and gave his position at Warner Bros. to his secretary at the time, Kathleen Helppie-Shipley, who ended up being the second-longest producer of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies franchise, behind only Leon Schlesinger.

In 1994, the International Family Film Festival presented its first Lifetime Achievement of Excellence in Animation award to Freleng, and the award has since been referred to as the "Friz Award" in his honor.

On May 26, 1995, Friz Freleng died of natural causes at the UCLA Medical Center, aged 89. The WB animated TV series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, and the Looney Tunes cartoon From Hare to Eternity (which was the last one directed by Chuck Jones), were both dedicated to his memory. After his death, Cartoon Network aired a variation of one of their station idents with the words "Friz Freleng: 1906–1995" (the birth year is disputed) appearing and an announcer paying tribute to Freleng and his works. He is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.

Freleng is portrayed by Taylor Gray in the film Walt Before Mickey (2015).

Partial filmography

Alice's Picnic (Short) (animator, 1927)
Trolley Troubles (Short) (animator, 1927)
The Banker's Daughter (Short) (animator, 1927)
Fiery Fireman (Short) (director and animator, 1928)
Homeless Homer (Short) (director and animator, 1929)
Hen Fruit (Short) (director and animator, 1929)
The Wicked West (Short) (director, 1929)
Weary Willies (Short) (director, 1929)
Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid (Short) (animator – uncredited, 1929)
Hold Anything (Short) (animator, 1930)
Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (Short) (animator, 1931)
Big Man from the North (Short) (animator, 1931)
The Tree's Knees (Short) (animator, 1931)
Battling Bosko (Short) (animator, 1932)
Moonlight for Two (Short) (animator, 1932)
It's Got Me Again! (Short) (animator, 1932)
Bosko in Person (Short) (animator, 1933)
Buddy's Day Out (Short) (story editor – uncredited; 1933)
We're in the Money (Short) (animator, 1933)
I Like Mountain Music (Short) (animator, 1933)
I Haven't Got a Hat (1935) (Short) (director, 1935)
Poultry Pirates (Short) (story – uncredited, 1938)
The Honduras Hurricane (Short) (story – uncredited, 1938)
Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) (Short) (director, 1958, earned John W. Burton's Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film after his death)
Shishkabugs (Short) (director, 1962)
The Jet Cage (Short) (writer, 1962)
Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (Short) (animation director, 1963)
Nuts and Volts (Short) (director, 1964)
It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (Short) (producer, 1965)
The Wild Chase (Short) (producer, 1965)
Tease for Two (Short) (producer, 1965)
Cats and Bruises (Short) (director, 1965)
The Solid Tin Coyote (Short) (producer, 1966)
Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing (Short) (producer, 1968)
Slink Pink (Short) (producer, 1969)
Shot and Bothered (Short) (producer, 1969)
The Ant and the Aardvark (Short) (producer, 1969)
Therapeutic Pink (Short) (producer, 1977)
Pink Press (Short) (producer, 1978)
Pinktails for Two (Short) (producer, 1978)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (TV Short) (director of "Bugs Bunny" sequences, 1979)

Notes

Many references say 1906 but according to his 1940 census record and his Kansas City Public Library obituary, he was born in 1905, so it is disputed if it is 1906 or 1905.

References

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^ Arnold, Mark (2015). Think Pink: The Story of DePatie-Freleng. BearManor Media. pp. unnumbered pages.
The Friz and the Diz Sampson, Wade (2006)
Cliping from the Los Angeles Times
^ "Animator Friz Freleng dead at 89". UPI. May 26, 1995.
"Friz Freleng - DOCUMENTARY Friz on Film"
1940 census
^ "BIOGRAPHY OF FRIZ FRELENG (1905-1995), CARTOONIST AND FILM ANIMATOR". 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
"Friz Freleng". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
Sigall 2005, p. 62.
Nesteroff, Kliph William Schallert Part 1 Classic Television Showbiz
Silbiger, Steve (May 25, 2000). The Jewish Phenomenon: Seven Keys to the Enduring Wealth of a People. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 9781589794900.
^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Friz Freleng at Reg Hartt's Cineforum, Toronto, Canada, 1980". YouTube. July 28, 2017.
^ "Complimentary Mintz: Krazy Kat and Toby the Pup: 1929–31". Cartoon Research. April 12, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age. Oxford University Press. p. 46.
The Friz and the Diz
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"Remembering My Chat With David DePatie". Cartoon Research. October 25, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age. Oxford University Press. pp. 288, 291–292.
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Evans, Greg (October 14, 2021). "David H. DePatie Dies: 'The Pink Panther' Cartoon Co-Creator & Producer Was 91". Variety. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
Nelson Shin
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Sources

Sigall, Martha (2005). "The Boys of Termite Terrace". Living Life Inside the Lines Tales from the Golden Age of Animation. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578067497.

External links

Media related to Friz Freleng at Wikimedia Commons
Works by or about Friz Freleng at Wikisource
Friz Freleng at IMDb
1940 census record

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1920s	Fiery Firemen (1928) Weary Willies (1929)
1930s	Bosko in Dutch (1933) Bosko in Person (1933) Beau Bosko (1933) Bosko's Picture Show (1933) Buddy the Gob (1934) Buddy and Towser (1934) Beauty and the Beast (1934) Buddy's Trolley Troubles (1934) Goin' to Heaven on a Mule (1934) How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934) Why Do I Dream Those Dreams (1934) The Girl at the Ironing Board (1934) The Miller's Daughter (1934) Shake Your Powder Puff (1934) Those Beautiful Dames (1934) Pop Goes Your Heart (1934) Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935) Country Boy (1935) I Haven't Got a Hat (1935) Along Flirtation Walk (1935) My Green Fedora (1935) Into Your Dance (1935) Country Mouse (1935) The Merry Old Soul (1935) The Lady in Red (1935) Little Dutch Plate (1935) Billboard Frolics (1935) Flowers for Madame (1935) I Wanna Play House (1936) The Cat Came Back (1936) I'm a Big Shot Now (1936) Let It Be Me (1936) Bingo Crosbyana (1936) When I Yoo Hoo (1936) Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936) At Your Service Madame (1936) Toy Town Hall (1936) Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936) The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936) He Was Her Man (1936) Pigs Is Pigs (1937) The Fella with a Fiddle (1937) She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937) Clean Pastures (1937) Streamlined Greta Green (1937) Sweet Sioux (1937) Plenty of Money and You (1937) Dog Daze (1937) The Lyin' Mouse (1937) September in the Rain (1937) My Little Buckaroo (1938) Jungle Jitters (1938) A Star is Hatched (1938) Poultry Pirates (1938) A Day at the Beach (1938) The Pygmy Hunt (1938) Honduras Hurricane (1938) The Captain's Christmas (1938) Petunia Natural Park (1939) Seal Skinners (1939) Mama's New Hat (1939) The Bookworm (1939) The Mad Maestro (1939)
1940s	Confederate Honey (1940) The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940) You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) Little Blabbermouse (1940) Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940) Malibu Beach Party (1940) Calling Dr. Porky (1940) Porky's Hired Hand (1940) Shop Look & Listen (1940) The Fighting 69½th (1941) The Cat's Tale (1941) Porky's Bear Facts (1941) The Trial of Mr. Wolf (1941) Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941) Sport Chumpions (1941) Notes to You (1941) Rookie Revue (1941) Rhapsody in Rivets (1941) Hop Skip and a Chump (1942) Porky's Pastry Pirates (1942) The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942) Saps in Chaps (1942) Lights Fantastic (1942) Double Chaser (1942) Foney Fables (1942) Fresh Hare (1942) The Sheepish Wolf (1942) The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) Ding Dog Daddy (1942) Pigs in a Polka (1943) The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943) Greetings Bait (1943) Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943) Gripes (1943) Hiss and Make Up (1943) Daffy – The Commando (1943) Rumors (1943) Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) Meatless Flyday (1944) Snafuperman (1944) Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) Duck Soup to Nuts (1944) Slightly Daffy (1944) Hare Force (1944) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944) Payday (1944) Target: Snafu (1944) Three Brothers (1944) Stage Door Cartoon (1944) Herr Meets Hare (1945) Life with Feathers (1945) Hare Trigger (1945) Ain't That Ducky (1945) Hot Spot (1945) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Operation Snafu (1945) Baseball Bugs (1946) Holiday for Shoestrings (1946) Hollywood Daffy (1946) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) The Gay Anties (1947) Tweetie Pie (1947) Rabbit Transit (1947) A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) Slick Hare (1947) Back Alley Oproar (1948) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Buccaneer Bunny (1948) Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) Hare Splitter (1948) Kit for Cat (1948) Hare Do (1949) Wise Quackers (1949) High Diving Hare (1949) Curtain Razor (1949) Mouse Mazurka (1949) Knights Must Fall (1949) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Dough for the Do-Do (1949) Each Dawn I Crow (1949) Which Is Witch (1949)
1950s	Home Tweet Home (1950) Mutiny on the Bunny (1950) The Lion's Busy (1950) Big House Bunny (1950) His Bitter Half (1950) All a Bir-r-r-d (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) Canary Row (1950) Stooge for a Mouse (1950) Canned Feud (1951) Rabbit Every Monday (1951) Putty Tat Trouble (1951) A Bone for a Bone (1951) The Fair-Haired Hare (1951) Room and Bird (1951) His Hare-Raising Tale (1951) Tweety's S.O.S. (1951) Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951) Gift Wrapped (1952) Foxy by Proxy (1952) 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Ain't She Tweet (1952) Cracked Quack (1952) A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) Tree for Two (1952) Hare Lift (1952) Snow Business (1953) A Mouse Divided (1953) Fowl Weather (1953) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Ant Pasted (1953) Hare Trimmed (1953) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953) Catty Cornered (1953) Robot Rabbit (1953) Dog Pounded (1954) Captain Hareblower (1954) I Gopher You (1954) Bugs and Thugs (1954) Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) Muzzle Tough (1954) Satan's Waitin' (1954) Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954) Goo Goo Goliath (1954) By Word of Mouse (1954) Pizzicato Pussycat (1955) Pests for Guests (1955) Stork Naked (1955) Sahara Hare (1955) Sandy Claws (1955) Hare Brush (1955) Tweety's Circus (1955) Lumber Jerks (1955) This Is a Life? (1955) A Kiddie's Kitty (1955) Hyde and Hare (1955) Speedy Gonzales (1955) Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955) Roman Legion-Hare (1955) Heir-Conditioned (1955) Pappy's Puppy (1955) Tweet and Sour (1956) Rabbitson Crusoe (1956) Tree Cornered Tweety (1956) Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) Tugboat Granny (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Yankee Dood It (1956) Two Crows from Tacos (1956) Three Little Bops (1957) Tweet Zoo (1957) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Piker's Peak (1957) Birds Anonymous (1957) Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Greedy for Tweety (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Gonzales' Tamales (1957) Hare-Less Wolf (1958) A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958) A Waggily Tale (1958) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) A Bird in a Bonnet (1958) Trick or Tweet (1959) Apes of Wrath (1959) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Tweet and Lovely (1959) Wild and Woolly Hare (1959) Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959) Tweet Dreams (1959)
1960s	Horse Hare (1960) Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960) Person to Bunny (1960) Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) Mouse and Garden (1960) From Hare to Heir (1960) Trip for Tat (1960) Lighter Than Hare (1960) D' Fightin' Ones (1961) The Rebel Without Claws (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) Prince Violent (1961) The Last Hungry Cat (1961) Crows' Feat (1962) Mexican Boarders (1962) Honey's Money (1962) The Jet Cage (1962) Shishkabugs (1962) Devil's Feud Cake (1963) Mexican Cat Dance (1963) Chili Weather (1963) The Unmentionables (1963) Nuts and Volts (1964) Pancho's Hideaway (1964) The Pink Phink (1964) Pink Pajamas (1964) Road to Andalay (1964) It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965) Cats and Bruises (1965) We Give Pink Stamps (1965) The Wild Chase (1965) Dial "P" for Pink (1965) Moby Duck (1965, producer) Sink Pink (1965) Assault and Peppered (1965) Pickled Pink (1965) Pinkfinger (1965) Shocking Pink (1965) Well Worn Daffy (1965) Pink Ice (1965) Suppressed Duck (1965) Corn on the Cop (1965) Rushing Roulette (1965) Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (1965) The Pink Tail Fly (1965) Tease for Two (1965) Tired and Feathered (1965) Boulder Wham! (1965) Chili Corn Corny (1965) Just Plane Beep (1965) Hairied and Hurried (1965) Go Go Amigo (1965) Highway Runnery (1965) The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965) Chaser on the Rocks (1965) The Astroduck (1965) Shot and Bothered (1966) Out and Out Rout (1966) Mucho Locos (1966) The Solid Tin Coyote (1966) Mexican Mousepiece (1966) Clippety Clobbered (1966) Daffy Rents (1966) A-Haunting We Will Go (1966) Snow Excuse (1966) A Squeak in the Deep (1966) Feather Finger (1966) Swing Ding Amigo (1966) Sugar and Spies (1966) A Taste of Catnip (1966) Daffy's Diner (1967) The Ant and the Aardvark (1969) Hasty But Tasty (1969) The Ant From Uncle (1969) I've Got Ants in My Plans (1969) Technology, Phooey (1969) Never Bug an Ant (1969) Dune Bug (1969)
1970s	Scratch the Tiger (1970) Odd Ant Out (1970) Ants in the Pantry (1970) Science Friction (1970) Humbo Jumbo (1970) The Froze Nose Knows (1970) Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle (1970) Rough Bunch (1971) From Bed to Worse (1971) Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979) Fright Before Christmas (1979) Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
1980s	The Chocolate Chase (1980) Daffy Duck's Easter Special (1980) The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983)

v t e Winsor McCay Award (1970s)
1972	Max Fleischer Dave Fleischer
1973	Walter Lantz
1974	Tex Avery Friz Freleng Chuck Jones Art Babbitt Winsor McCay
1975	Walt Disney John Hubley Faith Hubley Norman McLaren
1976	Robert Cannon Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Mike Maltese George Pal Ward Kimball
1977	Bill Hanna Joe Barbera Mel Blanc Oskar Fischinger Bill Scott Milt Kahl
1978	Jay Ward Ub Iwerks Dick Huemer Carl Stalling Hans Conried
1979	Clyde Geronimi Bill Melendez Mae Questel Otto Messmer
Complete list 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

v t e DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
Founders	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Theatrical shorts (original)	The Pink Panther (1964–1980) The Inspector (1965–1969) Roland and Rattfink (1968–1971) The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971) Tijuana Toads (1969–1972) The Blue Racer (1972–1974) Hoot Kloot (1973–1974) The Dogfather (1974–1976)
Commissioned by Warner Bros.	Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes (theatrical, 1964–1967) Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (CBS/TV special, 1977) Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (CBS/TV special, 1979)
Television shorts	Misterjaw (1976) Crazylegs Crane (1978)
Television shows	The Super 6 (NBC, 1966–1969) Super President (NBC, 1967–1968) Here Comes The Grump (NBC, 1969–1970) The Pink Panther Show (NBC, 1969–1971) Doctor Dolittle (NBC, 1970–1971) The New Pink Panther Show (NBC, 1971–1976) The Barkleys (NBC, 1972–1973) The Houndcats (NBC, 1972–1973) Bailey's Comets (CBS, 1973–1975) The Oddball Couple (ABC, 1975–1977) Return to the Planet of the Apes (NBC, 1975–1976) The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half-Hour and a Half Show (NBC, 1976–1977) Baggy Pants and the Nitwits (NBC, 1977–1978) What's New, Mr. Magoo? (CBS, 1977–1979) Think! Pink Panther (NBC, 1978) The All New Pink Panther Show (ABC, 1978–1979) The Fantastic Four (NBC, 1978–1979) Spider-Woman (ABC, 1979–1980)
Television specials	The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas (NBC/TV special, 1973) My Mom's Having a Baby (ABC/TV special, 1977) Where Do Teenagers Come From? (ABC/TV special, 1980)
Dr. Seuss Television specials	The Cat in the Hat (CBS/TV special, 1971) The Lorax (CBS/TV special, 1972) Dr. Seuss on the Loose (CBS/TV special, 1973) The Hoober-Bloob Highway (CBS/TV special, 1975) Halloween Is Grinch Night (ABC/TV special, 1977) Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (ABC/TV special, 1980) The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (ABC/TV special, 1982)
See also	Marvel Productions Ltd. Saban Entertainment Here Comes the Grump (film) 1982 animators' strike

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

Studios

Harman-Ising Productions (1930–1933)
Leon Schlesinger Productions (1933–1944)
Warner Bros. Cartoons (1944–1964)
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1964–1967, 1979–1980)
Format Films (1965–1967)
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967–1969)
Chuck Jones Enterprises (1976–1980, 1994–1997)
Warner Bros. Animation (1980–present)

People

Characters

Major

Secondary

Shorts

Feature films

Compilations	The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island Daffy Duck's Quackbusters The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
Feature-length theatrical animated	The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Live-action/animation	Space Jam Looney Tunes: Back in Action Space Jam: A New Legacy Coyote vs. Acme
Direct-to-video	Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation Tweety's High-Flying Adventure Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam King Tweety Taz: Quest for Burger
Documentaries	Bugs Bunny: Superstar Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons Chuck Amuck: The Movie

Television
series

Compilations	The Bugs Bunny Show The Porky Pig Show The Road Runner Show The Merrie Melodies Show Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends Bugs 'n' Daffy
Originals	Tiny Toon Adventures Taz-Mania The Plucky Duck Show Animaniacs Pinky and the Brain The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain Baby Looney Tunes Duck Dodgers Loonatics Unleashed The Looney Tunes Show Wabbit/New Looney Tunes Looney Tunes Cartoons Animaniacs 2020 Bugs Bunny Builders Tiny Toons Looniversity

Television
specials

Music/songs

Attractions

Other

Category

v t e MGM Cartoons
Series	Flip the Frog Willie Whopper Happy Harmonies The Captain and the Kids Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog One-shots Barney Bear The Bear Family The Bookworm and the Raven Tom and Jerry (filmography) Homer Flea Droopy Red Ol' Doc Donkey Screwy Squirrel George and Junior Butch Spike and Tyke
People	Tex Avery Joseph Barbera Preston Blair Scott Bradley Friz Freleng William Hanna Hugh Harman Rudolph Ising Ub Iwerks Gene Deitch Chuck Jones Michael Lah Dick Lundy Fred Quimby
Related	List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical animated feature films Associated Artists Productions DePatie–Freleng Enterprises Hanna-Barbera MGM Animation/Visual Arts Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation Warner Bros. Animation Turner Entertainment Co. Iwerks Studio The Pink Panther

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Feature films

Released	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Pinocchio (1940) Fantasia (1940) Dumbo (1941) Bambi (1942) Saludos Amigos (1942) The Three Caballeros (1944) Make Mine Music (1946) Fun and Fancy Free (1947) Melody Time (1948) The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Peter Pan (1953) Lady and the Tramp (1955) Sleeping Beauty (1959) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) The Sword in the Stone (1963) The Jungle Book (1967) The Aristocats (1970) Robin Hood (1973) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) The Rescuers (1977) The Fox and the Hound (1981) The Black Cauldron (1985) The Great Mouse Detective (1986) Oliver & Company (1988) The Little Mermaid (1989) The Rescuers Down Under (1990) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Aladdin (1992) The Lion King (1994) Pocahontas (1995) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Hercules (1997) Mulan (1998) Tarzan (1999) Fantasia 2000 (1999) Dinosaur (2000) The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Lilo & Stitch (2002) Treasure Planet (2002) Brother Bear (2003) Home on the Range (2004) Chicken Little (2005) Meet the Robinsons (2007) Bolt (2008) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Tangled (2010) Winnie the Pooh (2011) Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Frozen (2013) Big Hero 6 (2014) Zootopia (2016) Moana (2016) Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) Frozen 2 (2019) Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Encanto (2021) Strange World (2022) Wish (2023) Moana 2 (2024)
Upcoming	Zootopia 2 (2025)
Cancelled	My Peoples
Associated productions	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) Victory Through Air Power (1943) Song of the South (1946) So Dear to My Heart (1948) Mary Poppins (1964) Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) Pete's Dragon (1977) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Television productions

TV specials	Prep & Landing (2009) Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (2011)
TV series	Baymax! (2022) Zootopia+ (2022) Iwájú (2024)

People

Executives

Disney Legends
animators

Disney's Nine Old Men	Les Clark Marc Davis Ollie Johnston Milt Kahl Ward Kimball Eric Larson John Lounsbery Wolfgang Reitherman Frank Thomas