1954 in animation
Events in 1954 in animation.
Events
January
- January 30: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Posse Cat, produced by MGM, is first released.[1]
March
- March 5: The Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Diary premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, directed by Jack Kinney.[2]
- March 25: 26th Academy Awards: The Walt Disney Company's Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
June
- June 19: Bob McKimson's Devil May Hare premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons which marks the debut of the Tasmanian Devil.[5]
July
- July 24: Chuck Jones' Bewitched Bunny premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons which marks the debut of Witch Hazel.[6]
- July 31: Dick Lundy's Bird-Brain Bird Dog, produced by MGM, premieres. It's the final theatrical Barney Bear cartoon.[7]
August
- August 7: Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Satan's Waitin', produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[8]
- August 13: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Grin and Bear It premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the debut of park ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.[9]
October
- October 10: John Paul's Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy premieres.[10]
- October 16: Chuck Jones' From A to Z-Z-Z-Z is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[11]
- October 27: The first episode of Walt Disney anthology television series airs under the title Walt Disney's Disneyland.[12]
December
- December 4: Tex Avery's Dixieland Droopy premieres, produced by MGM.[13]
- December 20: After having left the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Tex Avery joins Walter Lantz Productions. He directs his first animated short for this studio, I'm Cold which stars Chilly Willy.
- December 29: Halas and Batchelor release Animal Farm, an adaptation of George Orwell's eponymous novel. It is the first British animated feature-length film.[14]
- Specific date unknown:
- Mikhail Tsekhanovsky's The Frog Princess premieres.
- Pete Burness' Mr. Magoo short film When Magoo Flew, produced by UPA, premieres.[15]
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 6: David Sproxton, English animator, director and producer (co-creator of Morph and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio).
- January 7: Sander Schwartz, American animation producer (president of Warner Bros. Animation from 2001 to 2007).
- January 17: Igor Kovalyov, Russian-born American animator, director and educator (Klasky Csupo).
- January 19: Katey Sagal, American actress (voice of Duckman's mother in Duckman, Turanga Leela in Futurama, Flo Spinelli in Recess, Policewoman Hero in Higglytown Heroes, Hillary and Maxine in Regular Show, Jane 'Butch' LePray in Spirit Riding Free).
- January 20: Ken Page, American actor and singer (voice of King Gator in All Dogs Go to Heaven and Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas).
- January 26: Sooan Kim, Korean-American animator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Æon Flux, The Oblongs, The Simpsons), (d. 2017).[16]
February
- February 15: Matt Groening, American comics artist and animator (creator of The Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment).
March
- March 11: David Newman, American composer and conductor (The Brave Little Toaster, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Rover Dangerfield, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Anastasia, Ice Age, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, Tarzan, Green Eggs and Ham, Pets United).
April
- April 13: Glen Keane, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Chipmunk Adventure, Dear Basketball, Over the Moon).
- April 14: Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator and film director (Akira).
May
- May 8: Stephen Furst, American voice actor (voice of Fanboy in Freakazoid!, Sport in Road Rovers, Hathi in Jungle Cubs, Dash in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, Booster in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Male Warthog in the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Home Is Where the Hog Is"), (d. 2017).[17]
- May 21: Janice Karman, American voice actress, producer and director (creator of The Chipettes and wife of Ross Bagdasarian Jr.).
June
- June 2: Richard Sala, American comics artist, illustrator and animator (Liquid Television), (d. 2020).[18]
- June 19: Kathleen Turner, American actress (voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Stacy Lovell in The Simpsons, Miss Liz Strickland in King of the Hill, Monogatron Leader's Wife in Rick and Morty, herself in Family Guy).
July
- July 7: Ron Jones, American composer (DuckTales, Superman, Family Guy, American Dad!, composed the theme song of The Fairly OddParents).
August
- August 4: Martin Pasko, Canadian-American comics writer and animation writer (Thundarr the Barbarian, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman: The Animated Series), (d. 2020).[19]
- August 6: John Moschitta Jr., American actor, singer and spokesman (voice of Blurr, Punch, and Blowpipe in The Transformers, Herb Leventhal in Bobby's World, Super Sonic Seymour in Garfield and Friends, Mr. Sackett in Pinky and the Brain, various characters in Robot Chicken, Jim Spleen in Family Guy, Keyper and Gnome #2 in Adventure Time, Announcer in American Dad!).
- August 13: Peter Hannan, American producer, writer (Pound Puppies, Let's Go Luna!), animator, singer-songwriter, author, illustrator, and artist (creator of CatDog).
September
- September 3: Kevin Petrilak, American animator (The Simpsons, Bobby's World, Rover Dangerfield, Once Upon a Forest, Exosquad, The Swan Princess, Space Jam), storyboard artist (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Muppet Babies, Spiral Zone), sheet timer (Hanna-Barbera, Film Roman, Disney Television Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studio) and director (Johnny Bravo, Danny Phantom, The Fairly OddParents, T.U.F.F. Puppy).
- September 19: Janet Perlman, Canadian animator (National Film Board of Canada, Sesame Street).
October
- October 8: Jim Smith, American animator and musician (The Ren & Stimpy Show).
- October 16: Jeff McCarthy, American actor (voice of Michigan J. Frog from 1995-2006).
November
- November 5: Mike Gabriel, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
- November 25: Dave Alex Riddett, English cinematographer (Aardman Animations).
- November 28: Marty Grabstein, American actor (voice of the title character in Courage the Cowardly Dog).
December
- December 26: Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor and comedian (voice of Luigi in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World), (d. 2017).
Specific date unknown
- Nina Elias-Bamberger, American producer (Sesame Street, Big Bag, Dragon Tales), (d. 2002).[20]
- Mac Torres, American animator (Pac-Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jetsons: The Movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dino Babies, Space Jam), (d. 2021).[21]
- David Schwartz, American animator, director (Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys, Jumanji, Channel Umptee-3, Johnny Bravo), writer (Johnny Bravo, Ben 10, New Looney Tunes) and storyboard artist (ALF Tales, The Real Ghostbusters, The Simpsons, Disney Television Animation, Yo Yogi!, Warner Bros. Animation, Rugrats, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Clerks: The Animated Series, Courage the Cowardly Dog, X-Men: Evolution, Tutenstein, Curious George, Class of 3000, TMNT, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Wolverine and the X-Men, Sit Down, Shut Up, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, Doc McStuffins, The VeggieTales Show), (d. 2021).[22]
Deaths
August
- August 17: Billy Murray, American signer (voice of Bimbo in the Betty Boop cartoons), dies at age 77.
November
- November 22: Moroni Olsen, American actor (voice of the Magic Mirror in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 65.[23]
December
- December 6: Bill Nolan, American animator, director and animation writer (Pat Sullivan, Margaret J. Winkler, Walter Lantz, MGM), dies at age 60.[24]
References
- "Posse Cat". 30 January 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Donald's Diary". 5 March 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- "Billy Boy". 8 May 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Bewitched Bunny". 24 July 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 53. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- "Satan's Waitin'". 7 August 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Grin And Bear It (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Hansel and Gretel". 24 December 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z". 16 October 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Griffin, Sean. "Walt Disney Programs". Encyclopedia of Television. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- "Dixieland Droopy". 4 December 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Reed, John (2013-04-12). "Animal Farm Timeline". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
Animal Farm ... premieres in New York City at the chic Paris Theatre, December 29, 1954.
- "When Magoo Flew". 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Sooan Kim". IMDb.
- Rosen, Christopher (June 17, 2017). "Animal House star Stephen Furst dies at 63". EW.com. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
- "Richard Sala". lambiek.net.
- Johnston, Rich (May 11, 2020). "Marty Pasko, Writer on Superman, Doctor Fate and Roseanne, Dies At 65". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- "Nina Elias-Bamberger". IMDb.
- "Mac Torres". IMDb.
- "David Schwartz 1954-2021". The Vindicator. January 1, 2022. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
- Hischak, Thomas S. (6 October 2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9780786486946.
- "William Nolan". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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