Ben Hardaway

Forfatter, Skuespiller, Instruktør

21. maj 1895 — 5. februar 1957 (61 år)
Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.

While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model sheet "Bugs' Bunny" since it was meant for Hardaway's unit. By the time the rabbit was redesigned and refined for the film A Wild Hare, the name was already being used in relation to the character in studio publicity materials.

In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the 1940–1950 Woody Woodpecker shorts, as well as supplying Woody's voice between 1944 and 1949.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Kendt for

  • The Woody Woodpecker Show
    The Woody Woodpecker Show32 sæsoner
  • Tom og Jerry går i krig
    Tom og Jerry går i krig1943
  • Jerrys plejemor
    Jerrys plejemor1942
  • Tee til to
    Tee til to1945
  • Søren Spætte
    Søren Spætte2017
  • Musenes skræk
    Musenes skræk1946
  • Forår for Tom og Jerry
    Forår for Tom og Jerry1946
  • Cruise Cat
    Cruise Cat1952
  • Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
    Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat1941
  • The Paneless Window Washer
    The Paneless Window Washer1937
  • Pluto's Judgement Day
    Pluto's Judgement Day1935
  • Bars and Stripes Forever
    Bars and Stripes Forever1939
  • Milk and Money
    Milk and Money1936

Filmografi