1948 in animation
Events in 1948 in animation.
Events
January
- January 3: Bob McKimson's Gorilla My Dreams, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny, premieres.[1]
- January 23: Toei Animation is founded.
March
- March 5: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Drip Dippy Donald premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. In the short film, Donald tries to sleep despite a dripping kitchen faucet.[2]
- March 20: 20th Academy Awards:
- James Baskett wins an Academy Honorary Award for his role as Uncle Remus in Song of the South, making him the first African-American actor to win an Oscar.[3]
- Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South, written by Ray Gilbert and composed by Allie Wrubel wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[3]
- Friz Freleng's Tweetie Pie, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and starring Tweety & Sylvester, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
April
- April 17: Bob McKimson's Sylvester cartoon Hop, Look and Listen, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premieres which features the debut of Hippety Hopper.[4]
May
- May 8: Friz Freleng's Buccaneer Bunny premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[5]
- May 15: Tex Avery's Little 'Tinker premieres, produced by MGM.[6]
- May 27: The Walt Disney Company releases Melody Time, directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson.[7]
June
- June 1: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Kitty Foiled premieres, produced by MGM.[8]
- June 12: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon Bugs Bunny Rides Again premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[9]
July
- July 17: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Truce Hurts, produced by MGM, is first released.[10]
- July 24: Chuck Jones' Haredevil Hare premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons in which Marvin the Martian makes his debut.[11]
September
- September 18: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Old Rockin' Chair Tom premieres, produced by MGM.[12]
October
- October 9: Tex Avery's Lucky Ducky premieres, produced by MGM.[13]
November
- November 28: Arthur Davis's The Stupor Salesman, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, starring Daffy Duck, premieres.[14]
December
- December 3: Charles Nichols' Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey and the Seal, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released.[15]
- December 11: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Mouse Cleaning premieres, produced by MGM.[16]
Specific date unknown
- Walter Lantz Productions closes down. It will be reopened two years later.[17]
Films released
Births
January
- January 26: Rumen Petkov, Bulgarian animator, comics artist (Choko & Boko) and director (Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The New Woody Woodpecker Show), (d. 2018).[18]
February
- February 15:
- Tino Insana, American actor (voice of Mr. Grouper in Bubble Guppies, Uncle Ted in Bobby’s World, Pig in Barnyard and Back at the Barnyard, and Bushroot in Darkwing Duck), (d. 2017).
- Larry DiTillio, American film and TV screenwriter (Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Beast Wars), (d. 2019).[19]
- February 28: Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer (voice of Rita in Animaniacs, Sophie in Anastasia, Angelique in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas).
March
- March 2: Ralph Schuckett, American composer (4Kids Entertainment), (d. 2021).
- March 4: Brian Cummings, American voice actor (voice of Doctor Mindbender in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Bumblelion in The Wuzzles, Mr. Hollywood in 2 Stupid Dogs, Doofus Drake in DuckTales, Papa Q. Bear in The Berenstain Bears, continued voice of Sir Tuxford in Adventures of the Gummi Bears).
- March 6: Stephen Schwartz, American composer (Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted).
- March 14: Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian (various voices in Animalympics, voice of Mike Wazowski in the Monsters Inc. franchise, Calcifer in Howl's Moving Castle).
- March 31:
- Al Gore, American politician, environmentalist and 45th vice president of the United States (voiced himself in the Futurama episodes Anthology of Interest I, Crimes of the Hot, Bender's Big Score and The Futurama Holiday Spectacular).
- Rhea Perlman, American actress (voice of Reeka in My Little Pony: The Movie, Mother Bird in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Judith in Sing,, Ardeth in the second season of The Critic, Agnes in What's New Scooby-Doo?, Golda in Harley Quinn, Cid in Star Wars: The Bad Batch and reprised her Cheers role of Carla Tortelli in The Simpsons episode Fear of Flying).
April
- April 7: Michael Hirsh, Belgian-born Canadian producer (Cookie Jar Entertainment, DHX Media, co-founder of Nelvana).
- April 16: Jane Aaron, American illustrator and animator (Between the Lions, Sesame Street), (d. 2015).[20]
- April 18: Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer (Spider-Man, X-Men: Evolution, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse).
May
- May 20: Tessho Genda, Japanese voice actor (voice of Batman, Tigger, Optimus Prime).
June
- June 8: Mike Jittlov, American animator (Animato, The Wizard of Speed and Time).
July
- July 12:
- Susan Blu, American voice actress (voice of Arcee in The Transformers, Flim Flam in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Mary "Stormer" Philips in Jem, Sibella in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Nanny Smurf in The Smurfs, Judge J.B. McBride in BraveStarr, Grandma Spankenheimer in Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer), voice-director and casting-director.
- Jay Thomas, American actor, comedian and radio personality (voice of Guard 1 in the Batman: The Animated Series episode The Forgotten, Mr. Sludge in the Goof Troop episode A Goof of the People, Achmed Abjeer in the Duckman episode The Road to Dendron, Ares in Hercules, Bull Seal in The Wild Thornberrys episode Tamper Proof Seal, Barry Anger in Teacher's Pet, Brett Morris in American Dad!), (d. 2017).[21][22]
- July 19: Brenda Banks, African-American animator (Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, This Is America, Charlie Brown, The Pagemaster, The Simpsons, King of the Hill), (d. 2020).[23]
August
- August 13: Jan Gissberg, Swedish cartoonist animator and director (Peter-No-Tail).
- August 19: Toshio Suzuki, Japanese film producer (Studio Ghibli),
September
- September 15: Linda Kahn, American television executive (Nickelodeon, Scholastic Entertainment), (d. 2021).[24]
- September 17: John Ritter, American actor (voice of Inspector Gil in Fish Police, the title character in Clifford the Big Red Dog), (d. 2003).
- September 24: Phil Hartman, American voice actor (voice of Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz in The Simpsons), (d. 1998).[25]
October
- October 17: Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (voice of Solitaire in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, Gaia in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Mistress Helga in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters), (d. 2018).[26]
- October 19: Mimi Gibson, actress (voice of Lucky in One Hundred and One Dalmatians).
November
- November 9: Carlos Loiseau, aka Caloi, Argentine comics artist and animator (Ánima Buenos Aires), (d. 2012).[27]
- November 26: Jiří Barta, Czech stop-motion animation director (The Pied Pieper, Toys in the Attic)
December
- December 9: Robert Blalack, Panamanian-born American visual effects artist (co-founder of Industrial Light & Magic), (d. 2022).[28]
- December 15: Melanie Chartoff, American actress (voice of Didi Pickles and Grandma Minka in Rugrats, Aunt Nora Shepherd in Jumanji, Dr. Sunshine in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes).
- December 21:
- Barry Gordon, American actor (voice of Donatello and Bebop in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Razor in Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron).
- Samuel L. Jackson, American actor (voice of Frozone in The Incredibles, and Incredibles 2, Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the title character in Afro Samurai).
Deaths
July
- July 9: James Baskett, American actor (voice of the obese crow in Dumbo, Uncle Remus and the voice of Br'er Fox in Song of the South), dies at age 44.[29][30]
- July 30: Pat Powers, American businessman (first distributor of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons), dies at age 77.
September
- September 20: Nicolai Shutorev, American singer (singing voice of Giovanni Jones in the Looney Tunes cartoon Long-Haired Hare), dies at age 33.
October
- October 5: Bert Green, British animator and comics artist (worked for International Film Service), dies at age 63.[31]
References
- "Gorilla My Dreams (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Drip Dippy Donald (Walt Disney Studios)".
- "The 20th Academy Awards (1948) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Buccaneer Bunny (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Little 'Tinker (MGM)".
- "Melody Time (Walt Disney Studios)".
- "Kitty Foiled (MGM)".
- "Bugs Bunny Rides Again (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "The Truce Hurts (MGM)".
- "Haredevil Hare (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Old Rockin' Chair Tom (MGM)".
- "Lucky Ducky (MGM)".
- "The Stupor Salesman (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Mickey and the Seal (Walt Disney Studios)".
- "Mouse Cleaning (MGM)".
- "Walter Lantz". lambiek.net. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- "Rumen Petkov". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- "Beast Wars Writer Larry DiTillio Passes Away At Age 79". tformers.com. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- Roberts, Sam (July 5, 2015). "Jane Aaron Dies at 67; Her Film Animation Sprouted on 'Sesame Street'". New York Times. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
- Blistein, Jon. "Cheers, Murphy Brown Character Actor Jay Thomas Dead at 69". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- "Comic actor Jay Thomas is dead at 69". New York Daily News. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
- Milligan, Mercedes (February 23, 2021). "Pioneering, 'Immensely Private' Animator Brenda Banks Has Died". Animation Magazine. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- Zahed, Ramin (August 31, 2021). "Children's TV Veteran Linda Kahn Has Died". Animation Magazine. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
- "Phil Hartman, wife die in apparent murder–suicide". CNN. May 28, 1998. Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2007.
- The Hollywood Reporter Staff (May 14, 2018). "'Superman' Star Margot Kidder Dies at 69". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018.
- "Caloi: ¿Quién nos dibuja la sonrisa?". Los Andes. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- Barnes, Mike (7 February 2022). "Robert Blalack, Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Artist on 'Star Wars,' Dies at 73". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- "On July 9, 1948, James Baskett, the first Black male performer to receive an Oscar, died".
- "James Baskett, 44, [ Screen, Radio Actor". The New York Times. 10 July 1948.
- "Bert Green".
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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