1937 in animation
Events in 1937 in animation.
Events
January
- January 9: The first solo Donald Duck cartoon, Don Donald premieres, directed by Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney Productions which launches the Donald Duck series.[1]
- January 24: Georg Woelz' Die Schlacht um Miggershausen premieres.[2]
February
- February 6: David Hand's Mickey Mouse cartoon Magician Mickey premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.[3]
- February 20: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon Moose Hunters premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.[4]
- February 27: Tex Avery's Picador Porky premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. This cartoon marks Mel Blanc's first voice acting role in a cartoon.[5]
March
- March 4: 9th Academy Awards: The Country Cousin, produced by The Walt Disney Company, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
- March 12: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio is established.[7]
- March 26; In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of Popeye.[8][9]
April
- April 3: Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig cartoon Porky's Romance premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, where Petunia Pig makes her debut.[10]
- April 17: The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and directed by Tex Avery, is first released. It marks the debut of Daffy Duck.[11]
- April 27: The Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Amateurs, directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdmann Penner and Walt Pfeiffer, premieres.[12]
May
- May 15: David Hand's Little Hiawatha premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the debut of Hiawatha who will later become a popular comics character.[13]
- May 22: Friz Freleng's Clean Pastures premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons .[14]
- May 29: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Modern Inventions premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios.[15]
June
- June 5: Tex Avery's Uncle Tom's Bungalow premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[16]
October
- October 15: Ben Sharpsteen's Clock Cleaners, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, is first released.[17][18]
November
- November 5: Wilfred Jackson's The Old Mill premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the first use of the multiplane camera.[19]
- November 26: The Popeye cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves premieres, produced by Fleischer Studios.[20]
December
- December 2: Ferdinand Diehl, Paul Diehl and Hermann Diehl's The Seven Ravens premieres, which is notable for being an animated feature film, several weeks before Disney's own animated feature film Snow White premieres.[21] However, The Seven Ravens is done in stop-motion, while Snow White features pencil animation.
- December 21: Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres, co-directed by David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen. It becomes a global box office hit.[21]
- December 24: Burt Gillett's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy film Lonesome Ghosts premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.[22]
Births
January
- January 1: Bernard Longpré, Canadian animator and animation director (Monsieur Pointu), (d. 2002).[23]
- January 2: Terence Rigby, British actor (voice of Silver in Watership Down), (d. 2008).[24]
- January 6: Jaime Diaz, Argentine-born American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears Enterprises), director (Duckman, The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone) and sheet timer (Klasky-Csupo, Jumanji, Dora the Explorer, Danger Rangers, American Dad!, Curious George), (d. 2009).[25][26]
- January 11: Felix Silla, American actor (additional voices in The Lord of the Rings), (d. 2021).[27]
- January 31: Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (voice of Zira in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Yubaba and Zeniba in the English dub of Spirited Away), (d. 2008).
February
- February 15: Ron Dias, American animator and painter (worked for Don Bluth and Walt Disney Company), (d. 2013).[28]
- February 17: Benjamin Whitrow, British actor (voice of Fowler in Chicken Run), (d. 2017).[29]
March
- March 3: Bobby Driscoll, American actor (voice of the title character in Peter Pan), (d. 1968).
- March 10: Robert Abel, American pioneer in visual effects and computer animation (Tron), (d. 2001).
April
- April 6: Billy Dee Williams, American actor (voice of Lando Calrissian in Star Wars Rebels, Lego Star Wars Shows and Specials, Robot Chicken, The Cleveland Show, Mad, Lindo Calrissian in Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, Two-Face in The Lego Batman Movie, Admiral Bitchface in Titan Maximum, himself in The Boondocks and The Life & Times of Tim).
- April 20: George Takei, American actor (voice of Sulu in Star Trek: The Animated Series, First Ancestor in Mulan, and Mulan II, Mr. Fixx in Batman Beyond, Master Sensui in Kim Possible, General Lok Durd in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Galactus in The Super Hero Squad Show, Mr. Littlepot in Amphibia, himself in The Simpsons, Futurama, and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?).
- April 24: Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (creator of Pingu), (d. 1993).[30]
May
- May 2: Lorenzo Music, American actor (voice of Garfield in Garfield and Friends, Tummi Gummi in Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters) (d. 2001).[31]
- May 26: Monkey Punch, Japanese manga artist (creator of Lupin III). (d. 2019).
June
- June 2: Sally Kellerman, American actress, singer and author (voice of The Seal in The Mouse and His Child, Sunburn in Happily Ever After, the Narrator in Delgo, Principal Stark in Unsupervised, Marshmallow Queen and Romaine Empress in The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, Dolores Barren in High School USA!), (d. 2022).[32]
- June 11: Johnny Brown, American actor and singer (voice of Splashdown in Rickety Rocket), (d. 2022).[33]
July
- July 2: Jim Duffy, American animator (Hanna-Barbera, Klasky-Csupo, Duckman), (d. 2012).[34]
- July 6:
- Ned Beatty, American actor (voice of Lotso in Toy Story 3 and Tortoise John in Rango), (d. 2021).[35][36]
- Ro Marcenaro, Italian animator and comics artist, (d. 2020).[37]
- July 12: Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor (creator of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Little Bill, and Fatherhood, and voice of the title character in the former)
- July 13: Hurey, Belgian animator (Belvision) and comics artist, (d. 2001).[38]
August
- August 21: Masako Sugaya, Japanese actress (Aim for the Ace!, Nobody's Boy Remi, Perman, Urusei Yatsura), (d. 2021).
September
- September 2: Len Carlson, Canadian actor (voice of Green Goblin in Spider-Man, Professor Coldheart in Care Bears, Bert Racoon in The Raccoons, Buzz in Cyberchase, Minimus P.U. in Atomic Betty), (d. 2006).
- September 6:
- Jo Anne Worley, American actress and comedian (voice of Armoire the Wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast, Hopopotamus in The Wuzzles).
- Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born Mexican cartoonist and writer (voiced himself in the Futurama episode Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences, and Paco in The Casagrandes episode Mexican Makeover).
- September 10: Brian Murray, South African actor and theater director (voice of Long John Silver in Treasure Planet), (d. 2018).[39]
- September 13: Don Bluth, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and film director (The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park, The Pebble and the Penguin, Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent, Titan A.E.).
- September 15: Anatoly Petrov, Russian film director and animator (Happy Merry-Go-Round, Polygon), (d. 2010).[40]
- September 21: Ron Cobb, American cartoonist, animator, director and screenwriter (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2020).[41]
October
- October 20: Jonas Rodrigues de Mello, Brazilian actor (voice of Shadowseat in Cassiopeia, Montanha in The Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs, Brazilian dub of various villains in Dragonball Z, dub voice of Rataxes in The Adventures of Babar), (d. 2020).[42]
November
- November 6: Eugene Pitt, American musician (composed the theme music of Nickelodeon), (d. 2018).[43]
December
- December 1: Gennady Sokolsky, Russian children's book illustrator, animator and film director (Happy Merry-Go-Round, Well, Just You Wait!, The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin), (d. 2014).[44]
Deaths
July
- July 20: Elmer Wait, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Elmer Fudd was named after him), dies at age 23.[45]
Sources
- Don Donald Archived February 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
- Die Schlacht um Miggershausen at IMDb
- Magician Mickey at IMDb
- Moose Hunters at IMDb
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Picador Porky (A Vitaphone Production)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
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- "Spinach Capital of the World". daytrippintexas.com. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
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- Porky's Duck Hunt at IMDb
- Mickey's Amateurs at IMDb
- Little Hiawatha at IMDb
- Clean Pastures at IMDb
- Modern Inventions at IMDb
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Uncle Tom's Bungalow (A Vitaphone Production)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2021-12-28.
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- "Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves". The Big Cartoon Database. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
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- "Animator Jim Duffy dies at 75, He was key figure at L.A.'s Klasky Csupo". Variety. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- Coyle, Jake (2021-06-13). "Ned Beatty, titanic character actor of 'Network,' dies at 83". CTVNews. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
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- "Hurey". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- "Tony Nominee Brian Murray Passes Away at 80". BroadwayWorld. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
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- "Ator Jonas Mello, de 'Flor do Caribe', morre aos 83 anos". November 19, 2020.
- "Doo-Wop Singer Eugene Pitt Passes". Allaccess.com. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
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- Elmer Wait at IMDb
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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