Between Edward Buzzell and Pete Docter, who has a career in animated films?
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Edward Buzzell Buzzell was born in Brooklyn. He appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway, and was hired to star in the 1929 film version of George M. Cohan's "Little Johnny Jones" with Alice Day. Buzzell appeared in a few Vitaphone shorts, and the two-strip Technicolor short "The Devil's Cabaret" (1930) as Satan's assistant. He wrote screenplays in the early 1930s and later produced the popular "The Milton Berle Show" which premiered on television in 1948.
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Pete Docter Peter Hans "Pete" Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the animated feature films "Monsters, Inc." (2001), "Up" (2009) and "Inside Out" (2015) and as a key figure and collaborator at Pixar Animation Studios. "The A.V. Club" has called him "almost universally successful". He has been nominated for eight Oscars (two wins thus far for "Up" and "Inside Out" – Best Animated Feature), seven Annie Awards (winning five), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won), and a Hochi Film Award (which he won). He has described himself as a "geeky kid from Minnesota who likes to draw cartoons."
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Jules Engel Jules Engel (March 11, 1909 – September 6, 2003) was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher. He is the founding director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.
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Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation, and also introduced well-known characters such as Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy.
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Dr. Dolittle (film) Dr. Dolittle is a 1998 American fantasy comedy film directed by Betty Thomas, written by Larry Levin and Nat Mauldin, and starring Eddie Murphy in the titular role. The film was inspired by the series of children's stories of the same name by Hugh Lofting, but used no material from any of the novels; the main connection is the name and a doctor who can speak to animals, although the pushmi-pullyu, a much-loved feature of the books, notably makes a very brief appearance in a couple of scenes.
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Theodore Thomas (filmmaker) Theodore (Ted) Thomas is a United States film director and producer. He is the son of Disney animator Frank Thomas. His films include the 1984 stop-motion animated movie "Where the Toys Come From", the documentary about the two last Disney "Nine Old Men" animators, "Frank and Ollie", 1995, and "Walt & El Grupo", 2009, documenting Disney and his group visiting South America during World War II. In 2012, Thomas produced another documentary about Disney animators, "Growing up with Nine Old Men" (included in the Diamond edition of the Peter Pan DVD.)
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Tom Palmer (animator) Anthony "Tony" Pipolo, known professionally as Tom Palmer was an Italian-American animator and short film director who was active in the 1930s and worked at several animation studios. He was born with the surname of "Pipolo" but changed his name to Palmer. One of his brothers, Frank Pipolo, was a decorated New York City police officer.
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The Flight of Dragons The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated fantasy film produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name (1979) by Peter Dickinson with the novel "The Dragon and the George" (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson. The film centers upon a quest undertaken to stop an evil wizard who plans to rule the world by dark magic. A major theme within the story is the question of whether science and magic can co-exist. This is told mostly through the experience of character Peter Dickinson, drawn from the 20th century into the magical realm.
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Asterix and Cleopatra (film) Asterix and Cleopatra (French: "Astérix et Cléopâtre" ) is a Belgian/French animated film released in 1968; it is the second Asterix adventure to be made into a feature film. Overseen by Asterix creators Goscinny and Uderzo (who had no involvement in the production of the first film "Asterix the Gaul"), the film is noticeably more well-produced than its prequel, featuring far more detailed animation and a more polished soundtrack.
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Jan Svochak Jan Svochak (July 7, 1925 – September 6, 2006) was a master animator who worked in the animation industry from the late 1940s through the 1990s. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1925. He started out as an inbetweener for Martin Taras on the "Baby Huey", "Little Audrey", and "Herman & Katnip" shorts. Some of the studios he worked with were: Famous, Pelican, Elektra, Zanders, Perpetual Motion Pictures, Buzzco, J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. His biggest success came in the 1960s when he began animating the "Punchy" character for the Hawaiian Punch ad campaign.
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Pete and Dud Pete and Dud were characters played by the comedians and entertainers Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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Toby Tortoise Returns Toby Tortoise Returns is an animated Technicolor cartoon in Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies" series. It was directed by Wilfred Jackson. It is a sequel to "The Tortoise and the Hare". It premiered on August 22, 1936.
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The Dognapper The Dognapper is a 1934 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as police officers who chase Pegleg Pete after he dognaps Fifi, Minnie Mouse's pet Pekingese. The film was directed by David Hand and features the voices of Clarence Nash as Mickey and Donald and Billy Bletcher as Pete. This was the first and only time that Mickey was voiced by Nash; Walt was in Europe at the time and was unavailable to record his lines for Mickey, thus, Nash took over.
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Chuck Jones Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Michigan J. Frog, the Three Bears, and a slew of other Warner characters.
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The Alley Cat (1941 film) The Alley Cat is an American animated short film, released in 1941 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Hugh Harman, the film centres on Butch and Toodles Galore, two cats who were subsequently integrated as recurring characters into the Tom and Jerry series of shorts.
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Edward Selzer Edward Selzer (January 12, 1893 – February 22, 1970) was an American cartoon producer and head of Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1958. He served in the US Navy and fought as a Golden Gloves boxer. He won a boxing exhibition for the Navy and was awarded with a weekend pass. While out on leave he met a New York chorus girl named Laura Cohn; he later married Laura and relocated to Los Angeles where they had two children; Phyllis and Robert.
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Dave Wasson David "Dave" Wasson is an American television producer, director, screenwriter, animator and art director. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a B.F.A. He is best known for creating "Time Squad" and directing and writing on the series "Mickey Mouse Shorts". He was the supervising director of "Making Fiends" and was the executive producer and director of the series "The Buzz on Maggie". Also, he is the author/illustrator of the children's book "The Big Ideas of Buster Bickles".
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Eddie Kilfeather Edward Vincent (Eddie) Kilfeather (April 5, 1900, Portland, Oregon - January 13, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Columbia Pictures' animated cartoons.
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Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare is a Warner Bros., Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released on March 28, 1964, starring Bugs Bunny and the Tasmanian Devil. It was directed by Robert McKimson. It was produced by David H. DePatie. The cartoon was animated by Ted Bonnicksen, Warren Batchelder, and George Grandpré. The cartoon was written by John Dunn.
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Tom Warburton Thomas Warburton (born August 31, 1968), often credited as Mr. Warburton, is an American animator, producer, writer and designer. He is best known for creating the animated television series "". He also created the animated short "Kenny and the Chimp". Prior to that he served as production designer on the first season of "Beavis and Butt-Head" and was the lead character designer for the animated series "Pepper Ann". He is also the author of the book "A Thousand Times No". Since moving to Los Angeles in 2009 he has worked at Disney Television Animation serving as creative director on "Fish Hooks" and co-executive producer on "The 7D".
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John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He currently is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios. He is also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.
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Pete's Dragon (2016 film) Pete's Dragon is a 2016 American fantasy comedy-drama adventure film directed by David Lowery, written by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks, and produced by James Whitaker. The film is a reboot of the 1977 musical film of the same name written by Malcolm Marmorstein. The film stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, and Robert Redford. The film tells the story of an orphaned feral boy who befriends a dragon in the Pacific Northwest, and the ensuing repercussions of their discovery by the town's local residents.