History & Production
30 entries in the Looney Tunes compendium.
History & Production — Era Chart
Friz FrelengThe senior director who crafted hundreds of cartoons and introduced many of the studio's bLeon SchlesingerThe shrewd producer who turned title cards into the Golden Age of animation.Chuck JonesA key director from the golden age of Warner Bros. Cartoons.Robert McKimsonA key figure of Termite Terrace who helped shape the studio's golden age.Warren FosterThe storyman behind 169 Warner Bros. shorts who helped shape classic cartoons but did not Cal DaltonThe uncredited co-director and initial designer of Bugs Bunny's earliest prototype.Michael MalteseThe writer behind the greatest animated shorts, including the legendary What's Opera, Doc?Edward SelzerA steady hand on the drawing board, keeping the Warner Bros. cartoon engine roaring througBen WashamThe invisible body behind the bounce—giving cartoon physics a human heartbeat.Fred QuimbyThe quiet giant whose green light let a rabbit, a duck, and a pig rewrite comedy forever.Jack WarnerThe man who demanded quick, cheap, and funny—and accidentally built an empire of chaos.Bob ClampettThe director who made cartoons scream, shatter, and dissolve into pure color.Tex AveryThe man who taught cartoon characters to be genuinely, gloriously unhinged.Frank TashlinThe political cartoonist who gave Bugs Bunny a razor's edge and made the whole world the pBea BenaderetThe sardonic purr behind the most refined cat in Merrie Melodies history.Daws ButlerThe voice behind the chaos: Sylvester, Taz, and a hundred frantic howls.June ForayOne tiny voice, one shotgun-wielding granny, and a canary who refused to quit.Allan MelvinThe snarl behind the feathers: Allan Melvin made Daffy Duck the 1980s' angriest, loudest sThurl RavenswoodThe sputtering, spinning, baritone storm behind the Tasmanian Devil's chaos.Beby RincónA name that, for now, belongs to no rabbit, duck, or director in the WB animation canon.Howard MorrisOne squeaky, defiant little voice that made a whole studio laugh for fifty years.Art DavisThe hands that gave Bugs Bunny his soul, one fluid line at a time.Manny DibblesA name fans whisper about, but the studio's reels keep quiet.Frank KinneyThe man who drew the first line under Bugs Bunny's chin and never got the credit he deservKen HarrisThe breathless, tornado-voiced man behind the Devil who ate the world.Robert CannonThe man who steered the Toon Studio through its long twilight and into the final frames.Phil MonroeThe steady hand behind Daffy's final golden-age adventures at the Warner Bros. animation dDave TendluA name on a single gag, a face in the crowd of the greatest cartoon universe ever animatedMarv NewmanThe man behind the boing — sculpting the sonic punchlines of a generation.Tony CervoneThe steady hand behind Daffy's 1960s antics when the studio needed a new voice.
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